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A Dictionary of Theatre Anthropology: The Secret Art of the Performer

By Barba, Eugenio, Savarese, Nicola

Old Time Variety

By Richard Baker

1953-68 (v. 1) (A Methuen dramabook)

By Roberts, Peter

Grace, Beauty and Banjos: Peculiar Lives and Strange Times of Music Hall and Variety Artistes

By Kilgarriff, Michael

The Scottish Theatre: Since the Seventies

By Stevenson, Randall, Wallace, Gavin

At This Theatre

By Botto, Louis, Viagas, Robert

Scottish Showbusiness: Music Hall, Variety and Pantomime (Scotland's past in action series)

By Bruce, Frank

Broadway Ballyhoo

By Henderson

Britain's Royal National Theatre: First 25 Years

By Goodwin, Tim

The Shuberts Present: 100 Years of Am

By Chach, M

Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness

By Sarah Beckwith

Anton Chekhov: A Brother's Memoir

By Chekhov, Mikhail

The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre

By Brown, John Russell

Danger Zone: Avoid Being a Tudor Actor in Shakespeare's Theatre (The Danger Zone)

By Jacqueline Morley, Dave Antram

The Theatre and Its Double (Oneworld Classics)

By Antonin Artaud

Ancient Theatre (University Paperbacks)

By Simon, Erika, Richardson, C.E.

Frankenstein, based on the novel by Mary Shelley (Faber Drama)

By Dear, Nick

Shakespeare's Stage (Yale Shakespeare S.)

By Nagler

Seventeenth-century French Drama: The Background

By Lough, John

Noh Plays of Japan (Tuttle Classics of Japanese Literature)

By Arthur Waley

Shakespeare's Strangest Tales: Extraordinary but true tales from 400 years of Shakespearean theatre

By Spragg, Iain

Plays 1: The Birthday Party, The Room, The Dumb Waiter, A Slight Ache, The Hothouse, A Night Out, The Black and White, The Examina,Vol. 1 (Faber Contemporary Classics)

By Pinter, Harold

The Caretaker

By Pinter, Harold

Not Since Carrie: Forty Years of Broadway Musical Flops

By Mandelbaum, Ken

The Politics of Performance: Radical Theatre as Cultural Intervention

By Kershaw, Baz

The Great Theatres of London

By Bergan, Ronald, Karney, Robyn, Burnard, Jane

Curtain Calls

By Bernard Miles, J. C. Trewin

His Majesty's Theatre: One Hundred Years of Glorious Damnation

By Swan, Edi

ROY HUDDS CAVALCADE OF VARIETY ACTS

By Hudd, Roy, Hindin, Philip

'Love Me or Kill Me': Sarah Kane and the Theatre of Extremes (Theatre: Theory – Practice – Performance)

By Saunders, Graham