Curtain Up (78 page)

Dane, Clemence,
A Bill of Divorcement
(Heinemann, 1921)

Delaney, Shelagh,
A Taste of Honey
(Methuen, 1959)

Grantham, A. E.,
The Wisdom of Akhnaton
(The Bodley Head, 1920)

Osborne, John,
Look Back in Anger
(Faber and Faber, 1957)

Phillpotts, Adelaide Eden,
Akhnaton: A Play
(Thornton Butterworth, 1926)

Priestley, J. B.,
Dangerous Corner
(Samuel French, 1933)

Priestley, J. B.,
Time and The Conways
(Heinemann, 1937)

Rattigan, Terence,
The Deep Blue Sea
(Hamish Hamilton, 1952)

Saunders, Peter,
Scales of Justice
(Chappell Plays, 1988)

Shaw, George Bernard,
Getting Married, A Disquisitory Play
(Constable, 1908)

Shaw, George Bernard,
Misalliance
(Constable, 1914)

Watts, M. F.,
The Claimant
(unpublished: ACA. LCP Ref: 1924/25)

Watts, M. F.,
Oranges and Lemons
(unpublished: ACA, date unknown)

Books about Agatha Christie and her work

Barnard, Robert,
A Talent to Deceive
(Collins, 1980)

Bloom, Harold (ed.),
Modern Critical Views: Agatha Christie
(Chelsea House, USA, 2002)

Cade, Jared,
Agatha Christie and the Eleven Missing Days
(Peter Owen, 1998)

Christie, Agatha,
An Autobiography
(Collins, 1977)

Curran, John,
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks
(HarperCollins, 2009)

Curran, John,
Agatha Christie's Murder in the Making
(HarperCollins, 2011)

Gill, Gillian,
Agatha Christie: The Woman and her Mysteries
(Robson, 1999)

Haining, Peter
, Agatha Christie: Murder in Four Acts
(Virgin Books, 1990)

Holgate, Mike,
Stranger Than Fiction: Agatha Christie's True Crime Inspirations
(History Press, 2010)

Keating, H.R.F.,
Agatha Christie: First Lady of Crime
(Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1977)

Light, Alison,
Forever England: Femininity, Literature and Conservatism Between the Wars
(Routledge, 1991)

Mackaskill, Hilary,
Agatha Christie at Home
(Frances Lincoln, 2009)

Makinen, Merja,
Agatha Christie: Investigating Femininity
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2006)

Morgan, Janet,
Agatha Christie: A Biography
(Collins, 1984)

Osborne, Charles,
The Life and Crimes of Agatha Christie
(Collins, 1982)

Prichard, Mathew (ed.),
Agatha Christie: The Grand Tour
(HarperCollins, 2012)

Ramsey, G.C.,
Agatha Christie: Mistress of Mystery
(Dodd, Mead & Co., USA, 1967/Collins, 1968)

Robyns, Gwen,
The Mystery of Agatha Christie
(Doubleday, USA, 1978)

Rowland, Susan,
From Agatha Christie to Ruth Rendell: British Women Writers in Detective and Crime Fiction
(Palgrave, 2001)

Sanders, Dennis and Lovallo, Len,
The Agatha Christie Companion
(Delacorte Press, USA, 1984/W.H. Allen, 1985)

Thompson, Laura,
Agatha Christie: An English Mystery
(Headline Review, 2007)

Trumpler, Charlotte (ed.),
Agatha Christie and Archaeology
(British Museum Press, 2001)

Underwood, Lynn (ed.),
Agatha Christie: Official Centenary Celebration
(Belgrave Publishing, 1990)

Autobiographies and memoirs

Attenborough, Richard and Hawkins, Diana,
Entirely Up to You, Darling
(Hutchinson, 2008)

Black, Kitty,
Upper Circle: A Theatrical Chronicle
(Methuen, 1984)

Brown, Curtis,
Contacts
(Cassell, 1935)

Cotes, Peter,
No Star Nonsense: A Challenging Declaration of Faith in the Essentials of Tomorrow's Theatre
(Rockliff, 1949)

Cotes, Peter,
Thinking Aloud: Fragments of Autobiography
(Peter Owen, 1993)

Counsell, John,
Counsell's Opinion
(Barrie and Rockliff, 1963)

Dean, Basil,
The Theatre at War
(Harrap, 1956)

Dean, Basil,
Seven Ages: an Autobiography 1888–1927
(Hutchinson, 1970)

Dean, Basil,
Mind's Eye: an Autobiography 1927–1972
(Hutchinson 1973)

Greenfield, George,
A Smattering of Monsters: a Kind of Memoir
(Little, Brown, 1995)

Gregg, Hubert,
Agatha Christie and all that Mousetrap
(William Kimber, 1980)

Gregg, Hubert,
Maybe it's Because . . . ?
(IndePenPress, 2005)

Guthrie, Tyrone,
A Life in the Theatre
(Hamish Hamilton, 1960)

Harris, Jed,
A Dance on the High Wire: a Unique Memoir of the Theatre
(Crown, USA, 1979)

Landstone, Charles,
Off-Stage: a Personal Record of the First Twelve Years of State Sponsored Drama in Great Britain
(Elek Books, 1953)

Landstone, Charles,
I Gate-Crashed
(Stainer and Bell, 1975)

Lockwood, Margaret,
Lucky Star
(Odhams, 1955)

Mallowan, Max,
Mallowan's Memoirs
(William Collins, 1977)

Murray, Braham,
The Worst it can be is a Disaster
(Methuen Drama, 2007)

Northen, Michael,
Northen Lights
(Summersdale, 1977)

Phillpotts, Eden,
From the Angle of 88
(Hutchinson, 1951)

Phillpotts, Eden,
Eden Phillpotts (1862–1960) Selected Letters
, ed. Dayananda, James Y. (University Press of America, USA, 1982)

Ross (née Phillpotts), Adelaide,
Reverie
(Robert Hale, 1981)

Rowse, A.L.,
Memories of Men and Women
(Eyre Methuen, 1980)

Saunders, Peter,
The Mousetrap Man
(Collins, 1972)

Toy, Barbara,
A Fool on Wheels: Tangier to Baghdad by Land Rover
(John Murray, 1955)

Williams, Emlyn,
Emlyn
(Bodley Head, 1973)

Wolfit, Donald,
First Interval
(Odhams, 1954)

Books about theatre and theatre people

Aldgate, Anthony and Crighton Robertson, James,
Censorship in Theatre and Cinema
(Edinburgh University Press, 2005)

Aston, Elaine and Reinelt, Janelle (eds),
The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights
(Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Barker, Clive and Gale, Maggie B. (eds),
British Theatre Between the Wars: 1918–1939
(Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Billington, Michael,
State of the Nation: British Theatre Since 1945
(Faber and Faber, 2007)

Callow, Simon,
Charles Laughton: A Difficult Actor
(Methuen, 1987)

Cochrane, Clare,
Twentieth Century British Theatre: Industry, Art and Empire
(Cambridge University Press, 2011)

Du Maurier, Daphne,
Gerald: A Portrait
(Victor Gollancz, 1934)

Duff, Charles,
The Lost Summer: The Heyday of the West End Theatre
(Nick Hern, 1995)

Federation of Theatre Unions,
Theatre Ownership in Britain
(Federation of Theatre Unions, 1953)

Findlater, Richard,
The Unholy Trade
(Victor Gollancz, 1952)

Gale, Maggie B.,
West End Women: Women and the London Stage, 1918–1962
(Routledge, 1996)

Gale, Maggie B. and Gardner, Viv (eds),
Women, Theatre and Performance: New Histories, New Historiographies
(Manchester University Press, 2000)

Gottfried, Martin,
Jed Harris: The Curse of Genius
(Little, Brown, USA, 1984)

Griffiths, Trevor R. and Llewellyn-Jones, Margaret (eds),
British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958: A Critical Handbook
(Open University Press, 1993)

Hand, Richard J. and Wilson, Michael,
London's Grand Guignol and the Theatre of Horror
(University of Exeter Press, 2007)

Harding, James,
Gerald du Maurier: The Last Actor-Manager
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1989)

Harris, Andrew B.,
Broadway Theatre
(Routledge, 1994)

Harwood, Ronald,
Sir Donald Wolfit CBE: His Life and Work in the Unfashionable Theatre
(Secker and Warburg, 1971)

Higham, Charles,
Charles Laughton: An Intimate Biography
(W.H. Allen, 1976)

Hirsch, Foster,
The Boys from Syracuse
:
The Shuberts' Theatrical Empire
(Cooper Square Press, USA, 2000)

Hoare, Philip,
No
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l
Coward: A Biography
(Sinclair-Stevenson, 1995)

Holroyd, Michael,
Bernard Shaw
(Chatto and Windus, 1997)

Huggett, Richard,
Binkie Beaumont: Eminence Grise of the West End Theatre, 1933–1973
(Hodder and Stoughton, 1989)

Hume, Elizabeth,
A Laboratory of Theatre: The History of the Embassy
(Central School of Speech and Drama, 2002)

Kabatchnik, Amnon,
Blood on the Stage: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery and Detection 1925–1950
(Scarecrow Press, USA, 2010)

Kabatchnik, Amnon,
Blood on the Stage: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery and Detection 1950–1975
(Scarecrow Press, USA, 2011)

Kabatchnik, Amnon,
Blood on the Stage: Milestone Plays of Crime, Mystery and Detection 1975–2000
(Scarecrow Press, USA, 2012)

Lachman, Marvin,
The Villainous Stage: Crime Plays on Broadway and in the West End
(McFarland, USA, 2014)

Lane, Margaret,
Edgar Wallace: The Biography of a Phenomenon
(Heinemann, 1938)

Mander, Raymond and Mitchenson, Joe,
The Theatres of London
,
revised and enlarged edition (New English Library, 1975)

Marshall, Norman,
The Other Theatre
(John Lehmann, 1947)

Nicholson, Steve,
The Censorship of British Drama 1900
–1968, Volumes 1–3
(University of Exeter Press 2003, 2005, 2011)

Parker, John (original ed.),
Who's Who in the Theatre
(Pitman, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1922, 1925, 1930, 1933, 1936, 1939, 1947, 1952, 1957, 1961, 1967, 1972)

Pattie, David,
Modern British Playwriting, the 1950s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations
(Methuen, 2012)

Pick, John,
The West End: Mismanagement and Snobbery
(John Offord, 1983)

Pick, John,
Vile Jelly: The Birth, Life and Lingering Death of the Arts Council of Great Britain
(Brynmill Press, 1991)

Rabellato, Dan,
1956 And All That: The Making of Modern British Drama
(Routledge, 1999)

Sanderson, Michael,
From Irving to Olivier: A Social History of the Acting Profession in England 1880–1983
(Palgrave Macmillan, 1984)

Saunders, Peter,
The Mousetrap Story
(St Martin's Theatre, 1992)

Shafer, Elizabeth,
Ms-Directing Shakespeare: Women Direct Shakespeare
(The Women's Press, 1998)

Shellard, Dominic,
British Theatre Since the War
(Yale University Press, UK and USA, 1999)

Shellard, Dominic (ed.),
British Theatre in the 1950s
(Sheffield Academic Press, 2000)

Shepherd, Simon,
The Cambridge Introduction to Modern British Theatre
(Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Shubert Archive (Maryann Chach, Reagan Fletcher, Mark E. Swartz, Syvia Wang),
The Shuberts Present: 100 Years of American Theater
(Harry N. Abrams, USA, 2001)

Thorndike, Russell,
Sybil Thorndike
(Thornton Butterworth, 1929)

Van Gyseghem, Andre,
Theatre in Soviet Russia
(Faber and Faber, 1943)

Wearing, J.P.,
American and British Theatrical Biography: A Directory
(Scarecrow Press, USA, 1979)

Wearing, J.P.,
The London Stage, 1920–29: A Calendar of Plays and Players
(Scarecrow Press, USA, 1984)

Wearing, J.P.,
The London Stage, 1930–1939: A Calendar of Plays and Players
(Scarecrow Press, USA, 1990)

Wearing, J.P.,
The London Stage, 1940–1949: A Calendar of Plays and Players
(Scarecrow Press, US, 1991)

Wearing, J.P.,
The London Stage, 1950–1959: A Calendar of Plays and Players
(Scarecrow Press, US, 1993)

Wilmeth, Don B and Bigsby, Christopher (Eds)
The Cambridge History of American Theatre Volume II: 1870–1945
(Cambridge University Press, 1999)

Wilmeth, Don B and Bigsby, Christopher (Eds)
The Cambridge History of American Theatre Volume III: Post-World War II to the 1990s
(Cambridge University Press, 2000)

Other books of interest

Burke, David,
The Lawn Road Flats: Spies, Writers and Artists
(Boydell Press, 2014)

Canjels, Rudmer,
Distributing Silent Film Serials: Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation
(Routledge, 2011)

Clarke, Peter,
Hope and Glory: Britain 1900–1990
(Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 1996)

Dahlquist, Marina (ed.),
Exporting Perilous Pauline: Pearl White and the Serial Film Craze
(University of Illinois Press, USA, 2013)

Dove, Richard,
‘Gerhard Hinze or Gerard Heinz? A Life in Two Acts'
(Yearbook of the Research Centre for German and Austrian Exile Studies, Vol 14, 2013)

Gardiner, Juliet,
The Thirties: An Intimate History
(HarperPress, 2010)

Hennessy, Peter,
Never Again: Britain 1945–51
(Jonathan Cape, 1992)

Humble, Nicola,
The Feminine Middlebrow Novel, 1920s–1950s: Class, Domesticity and Bohemianism
(Oxford University Press, 2001)

Knight, Stephen,
Form and Ideology in Crime Fiction
(Macmillan, 1980)

Kynaston, David,
Austerity Britain: 1945–51
(Bloomsbury, 2007)

Kynaston, David,
Family Britain: 1951–57
(Bloomsbury, 2009)

Kynaston, David,
Modernity Britain: 1957–59
(Bloomsbury, 2013)

Maltin, Leonard (ed.),
Leonard Maltin's Classic Movie Guide
(Plume/Penguin, 2005)