Books published in 2014 entered for the STR Theatre Book Prize

Alphabetically arranged by author, this list of all eligible books entered for the prize provides links to the publisher’s* catalogue entry by clicking on each title.
*except for one instance which connects to the Amazon listing

Performing Environments
Susan Bennett & Mary Polito (Eds)
Palgrave

Modern and Contemporary Black British Drama
Mary F. Brewer, Lynette Goddard & Deirdre Osborne
Palgrave

Actresses, Gender, and the Eighteenth-Century Stage
Helen M. Brooks
Palgrave

Bryden & Clark: Lives in the Theatre
Bill Bryden & Nobby Clark
Oberon

Staging Conventions in Medieval English Theatre
Philip Butterworth
Cambridge

Singing Simpkin and other Bawdy Jigs – Musical Comedy on the Shakespearean Stage: Scripts, Music and Context
Roger Clegg and Lucie Skeaping
Exeter UP

The Old Vic: The Story of a Great Theatre from Kean to Olivier to Spacey
Terry Coleman
Faber

Crashing Through Constellations
Tony Craven
Douglas Foote

In Search of Gielgud: A Biographer’s Tale
Jonathan Croall
Herbert Adler

DIY
Robert Daniels
Bootworks and Univ of Chichester

Funny Bones: My Life in Comedy
Freddie Davies
Scratching Shed Publishing

Opera in the Media Age: Essays on Art, Technology and Popular Culture
Paul Fryer
McFarland

Home on the Stage
Nicholas Grene
Cambridge

Moving Shakespeare Indoors
Andrew Gurr & Farah Karim-Cooper
Cambridge

Performing Proximity
Leslie Hill & Helen Paris
Palgrave

Editing, Performance, Texts
Jacqueline Jenkins & Julie Sanders (Eds)
Palgrave

Bill Jones Alone: The Triumph and Tragedy of John Curry
Bill Jones
Bloomsbury

The Man Who Was Old Mother Riley
Robert V. Kenny
BearManor Media

How Theatre Means
Ric Knowles
Palgrave

Studying Disability Arts and Culture
Petra Kuppers
Palgrave

Theatre and Adaptation
Margherita Laera (Ed)
Bloomsbury

Shakespeare and the Countess
Chris Laoutaris
Penguin / Fig Tree

A Spencer Love Affair: Eighteen Century Theatricals at Blenheim Palace and Beyond
Allan Ledger
Fonthill Media

The History of the Prince of Wales’s Theatre 1771-1903
Richard L. Lorenz
Hertfordshire UP

Our Time of Day
Kika Markham
Oberon

Oliver!
Marc Napolitano
Oxford

To Bodies Gone: The Theatre of Peter Gill
Barney Norris
Seren

All Work and No Plays
Ontroerend Goed
Oberon

Joan Littlewood: Dreams and Realities: The Official Biography
Peter Rankin
Oberon

Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century
Fiona Ritchie
Cambridge

I Joke Too Much – The Theatre Director’s Tale
Michael Rudman
Capercaillie Books

Diane Samuels’ Kindertransport
Diane Samuels
Nick Hern

Theatre & History
Rebecca Schneider
Palgrave

The Journal of the Plague Year
Max Stafford-Clark
Nick Hern

The Oxford Handbook of Georgian Theatre
Julian Swindells & David Frances Taylor (Eds)
Oxford

Covering Shakespeare
David Weston
Oberon

Acts
Tzachi Zamir
Univ of Michigan Press

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