Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize 2025

The Society for Theatre Research reveals the shortlist for the Theatre Book Prize 2025.

By Robert Iles - 22nd May 2025

The shortlist is as follows:

Shakespeare and the Royal Actor: Performing Monarchy 1760-1952 by Sally Barnden (Oxford University Press)
A Piece of Work: Playing Shakespeare & Other Stories by Simon Russell Beale (Abacus)
What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century by James Harriman-Smith (Methuen Drama)
Charcoalblue: Designing for Performance by Hugh Pearman (Lund Humphries)
James Graham: State of the Nation Playwright by Maryam Philpott (Palgrave Macmillan)
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh (Sceptre)

2025 marks the 27th Society for Theatre Research Theatre Book Prize, which was established in 1998 to celebrate the Society’s Golden Jubilee. The aim of the Book Prize is to encourage the writing and publication of books on British-related theatre history and practice.

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