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Abraham, Adam (1)
Adams, Chris (1)
Alfaro, Luis; Alvarez, Boni B.; Shekar, Madhuri; Kamitaki, Mary Lyon; Quarles, Julie Taiwo (1)
Allain, Paul (University of Kent, UK); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Univ (1)
Allen, Paul (1)
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Artaud, Antonin (1)
Aston, Elaine; Miller, Suzie; Squire, Rosemary; de Angelis, April; Mitchell, Ann (1)
Barnett, David (University of York, UK); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, Un (1)
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Delijani, Dr Clare Finburgh (Goldsmiths University, UK); Boenisch, Professor Peter M. (Aarhus Univer (1)
Doran, Greg (1)
Ella Hawkins (1)
Francis, Dr. Ben (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) (1)
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Glover, Eric M. (Yale University, USA) (1)
Gontarski, S.E. (1)
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Inverne, JAMSes (1)
Kenrick, John (1)
Kerbel, Lucy (1)
Kulick, Brian (1)
Lavender, Andy (Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School of S (1)
Laver, James; de La Haye, Amy; Tucker, Andrew (1)
Liedke, Heidi Lucja (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) (1)
Londre, Felicia Hardison (University of Missouri-Kansas City, USA); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central S (1)
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Menzer, Paul (1)
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Patterson, Michael (Late of De Montfort University, UK); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School of Sp (1)
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Tait, Prof. Peta (La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia); Shepherd, Simon (Royal Central School (1)
Taxopoulou, Iphigenia (1)
Taylor, Millie (1)
Taylor-Batty, Mark (University of Leeds, UK); Artaud, Antonin; Taylor-Batty, Mark (University of Lee (1)
Todd, Professor Selina (1)
Van den Dries, Luk (University of Antwerp, Belgium); De Laet, Timmy (University of Antwerp, Belgium) (1)
Walsh, Fintan (Author, Birkbeck, University of London, UK); Hartl, Anja (University of Innsbruck, Au (1)
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The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today

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The Dream Factory: London's First Playhouse and the Making of William Shakespeare

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Attack of the Monster Musical: A Cultural History

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The Faber Pocket Guide: Musicals

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A Good Night Out - Popular Theatre: Audience, Class and Form

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Black British Drama: A Transnational Story

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Deep Are the Roots: Trailblazers Who Changed Black British Theatre

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Slow Train Coming: Bob Dylan's Girl from the North Country and Broadway's Rebirth

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The Theatre and its Double

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Evoking Shakespeare (and forgetting!)

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Livecasting in Twenty-First-Century British Theatre: NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materials

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Chekhov on Theatre

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Theory for Theatre Studies: Emotion

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Ibsen on Theatre

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What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century

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Pocket Guide to Alan Ayckbourn's Plays

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Cabaret: Forms of Drama

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Modern Tragedy: Form of Drama

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Shakespeare & Co

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The Theatrical Notebook of Samuel Beckett: The Shorter Plays

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African American Perspectives in Musical Theatre

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Time Traveller's Guide to British Theatre

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Contemporary British Musicals: 'Out of the Darkness'

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Brecht on Theatre

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Decolonizing the Theatre Space: A Conversation

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Kattaikkuttu: Forms of Drama

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Conversations in Color

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Theater of Lockdown Digital and Distanced Performance in a Time of Pandemic

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Modern British Playwriting: The 1950s Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

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The Theatre of Anthony Neilson

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William Shakespeare: A Brief Life

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