This collection features nearly 600 academic books from the prestigious Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare imprints. Together they offer invaluable critical, contextual and pedagogic content from leading voices in theatre, performance and Shakespeare studies. The titles in this collection are grouped under two broad areas: Context and Criticism and Theatre Craft. The collection also includes 60 actor training videos through PATAZ: Physical Actor Training - an online A-Z.

Highlights include:

Mastering Theatre Craft

• Thinking Through Theatre and Performance edited by Maaike Bleeker, Adrian Kear, Joe Kelleher & Heike Roms
• Theatre Games by Clive Barker
• How to Write about Theatre by Mark Fisher
• The Alexander Technique for Musicians by Judith Kleinman and Peter Buckoke
• Script Analysis for Theatre by Robert Knopf
• Movement Training for Actors by Jackie Snow
• Mastering the Shakespeare Audition by Donna Soto-Morettini

Behind-the-scenes insights

• Peter Brook: Threads Of Time: A Memoir by Peter Brook
• There Are No Secrets: Thoughts on Acting and Theatre by Peter Brook
• Julie Hesmondhalgh: A Working Diary by Julie Hesmondhalgh
• Brecht On Theatre by Bertolt Brecht, edited by Marc Silberman, Steve Giles and Tom Kuhn
• Simon Stephens: A Working Diary by Simon Stephens

Cutting-edge Shakespeare studies

• White People in Shakespeare edited by Arthur L. Little Jr
• Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama by Kate Aughterson and Ailsa Grant Ferguson
• The Woman's Voice by Patsy Rodenburg
• The Arden Research Handbook of Contemporary Shakespeare Criticism edited by Evelyn Gajowski
• Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama: Text and Performance by Pamela Bickley and Jenny Stevens
• Hamlet: Language and Writing by Dympna Callaghan

At the forefront of scholarship

• Postdramatic Theatre and the Political: International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance edited by Karen Jürs-Munby, Jerome Carroll and Steve Giles
• Prison Theatre and the Global Crisis of Incarceration by Ashley E. Lucas
• An Inconvenient Black History of British Musical Theatre: 1900–1950 by Sean Mayes and Sarah K. Whitfield
• Scenography Expanded: An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design, edited by Joslin McKinney and Scott Palmer
• A Critical Companion to the American Stage Musical by Elizabeth L. Wollman

PATAZ: Physical Actor Training - an online A-Z

PATAZ: Physical Actor Training - an online A-Z establishes a foundation for physical training exercises through over 60 dynamic videos with accompanying audio commentary, reflection, and texts for today’s physical actor, teacher, and trainer. Using innovative camera work and editing processes, each film explores a term from the A-Z, ranging from specific skills like Grounding and Balance to more abstract concepts like Energy or Craft.