Theatre Book Prize

Theatre Book Prize

The Theatre Book Prize was established to celebrate the Jubilee of the Society for Theatre Research (founded in Britain in 1948) and to encourage the writing and publication of books on theatre history and practice, both those which present the theatre of the past and those which record contemporary theatre for the future. It was first awarded in 1998 for the best new theatre title published in English during 1997. It is now presented annually for a book on British or British related theatre which an independent panel of judges considers to be the best published during the preceding year. All new works of original research first published in English are eligible except for play texts and studies of drama as literature. There are three judges, who are different each year. They are drawn from the ranks of people working in theatre – performers, directors and others, theatre critics, senior academics concerned with theatre and theatre archivists.

The Prize embraces all aspects and genres of theatre from opera and ballet to circus and music hall, mime and puppetry as well as 'legitimate' forms and, as the list of previous winners shows, entries are drawn from right across the publishing spectrum.

Previous Prize Winners

* 1997 "The Life of Margaret Ramsay, Play Agent" by Colin Chambers (Nick Hern)
* 1998 "Threads of Time" by Peter Brook (Methuen)
* 1999 "Garrick" by Ian McIntyre (Allen Lane)
* 2000 "Politics, Prudery and Perversion.... Censorship 1906-68" by Nicholas de Jongh (Methuen)
* 2001 "Reflecting the Audience: London Theatregoing, 1840-1880" by Jim Davis & Victor Emeljanow (Iowa University Press/University of Hertfordshire Press)
* 2002 "A History of Irish Theatre 1601-2000" by Christopher Morash (Cambridge University Press)
* 2003 "National Service" by Richard Eyre (Bloomsbury)
* 2004 "Margot Fonteyn" by Meredith Daneman (Penguin/Viking)
* 2005 "1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare" by James Shapiro (Faber & Faber)
* 2006 "John Osborne: a Patriot for Us" by John Heilpern (Chatto & Windus)
* 2007 "State of the Nation" by Michael Billington (Faber)

External links

* [http://www.str.org.uk Society for Theatre Research]


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