2005 Theatre Book Prize
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
James Shapiro (Faber & Faber)
The event took place at the Theatre Museum, Covent Garden on 1st April 2006
The shortlisted books were:
Fanny Kemble: A Reluctant Celebrity by Rebecca Jenkins
The Coming of Godot by Jonathan Croall
Peter Brook by Michael Kustow
1599: A Year in The Life Of Shakespeare by James Shapiro
Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914 by Edith Hall and Fiona Macintosh (Oxford University Press)
Sir Henry Irving: a Victorian actor and his world by Jeffrey Richards. (Hambledon and London).
The judges were:
Yvonne Brewster, theatre director and actress
Jan Macdonald Professor Emerita of Glasgow University former Chair of the Citizens Theatre and now its Vice President as well as Vice President (Arts and Humanities) of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Ruth Leon, critic, columnist and writer