Short List For Theatre Books Published in 2008
- The Golden Generation: New Light on Post-war British Theatre, edited by Dominic Shellard (British Library)
- Stage Presence: The Actor as Mesmerist by Jane Goodall (Routledge)
- A Strange Eventful History: The Dramatic Lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd (Chatto and Windus)
- Theatre and Globalisation : Irish Drama in the Celtic Tiger Era by Patrick Lonergan (Palgrave Macmillan)
- Theatre of The Troubles by Bill McDonnell (Exeter University Press)
- Verbatim: Techniques in Contemporary Theatre, edited by Will Hammond and Dan Steward (Oberon)
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