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The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre Simon Shepherd Cambridge University Press, 2009 268 pages, 20 illustrations £15.99, paperback, ISBN 9780521690188 £45, hardback ISBN 9780521869867
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Theatre is an ambitious and impressive work. Shepherd defines modern as " everything after 1900" and his study is witty, erudite and as impressive in the range of works, practices and practitioners as it is long in chronological coverage. In the Foreword he declares:
I am the sort of person that picks up a book like this and goes straight for the index, to check out what is said about favourite shows and...