Literature and Theatre studies
Books to explore
Life and Death of the Wicked Lady Skelton
Editor: Rowland Hughes
Format: Paperback
★★★★★ “Shocking and entertaining in equal measures: a true gem from a bygone era.” Lyndsy Spence, The Lady Magazine
Cultural Shakespeare
Author: Graham Holderness
Format: Paperback
This book brings together the author's writings on Shakespeare and national culture and the ‘Shakespeare myth'.
Entertainment, Propaganda, Education
Author: Anselm Heinrich
Format: Paperback
Regional theatre in Germany and Britain between 1918 and 1945.
Lilian Baylis
Author: Elizabeth Schafer
Format: Paperback
The first biography of Lilian Baylis for over thirty years and one which considerably revises the established image of Baylis as a domineering and eccentric old lady.
Off-centre Stages
Author: Jinnie Schiele
Format: Paperback
Fringe Theatre at the Open Space and the Round House, 1968-1983
Refiguring Mimesis
Author: Jonathan Holmes , Adrian Streete
Format: Paperback
Representation in early modern literature.
Reflecting the Audience
Author: Jim Davis , Victor Emeljanow
Format: Paperback
London theatergoing, 1840-1880
Price: £14.99
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Selling Shakespeare to Hollywood
Author: Emma French
Format: Paperback
The marketing of filmed Shakespeare adaptations from 1989 into the new millennium
The Al-Hamlet Summit
Author: Sulayman Al-Bassam
Format: Paperback
Original play script in English and Arabic with an Introduction by Graham Holderness.
The History of the Prince of Wales’s Theatre, London, 1771-1903
Author: Richard L Lorenzen
Format: Paperback
In 1771 a new concert hall was built on a plot of land just off London's Tottenham Court Road. Amateur theatricals staged there by the aristocratic Pic-Nic Society soon aroused the hostility of the Patent Theatre managers, keen to protect their monopoly. The hall was refitted as a theatre in
The Politics of the Pantomime
Author: Jill Sullivan
Format: Paperback
Regional identity in the theatre, 1860-1900
The Sands of Time
Editor: Jenny Plastow , Margot Hillel
Format: Paperback
Children’s Literature: Culture, politics and identity