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The Theatre Reference Shelf IIThe Cambridge Biographical Encyclopedia 1025 pages of brief biographies of all kinds of people, including actors, directors and writers, plus a 150 page Ready Reference section containing all kinds of information, including Pulitzer Proze winners for Drama back to 1919 and Oscar winers to 1927-28. Very useful for a brief survey of the lives of famous theatre people and others. The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations The number of times I am asked to place a quotation is legion. If I don't know it from my own memory, then the chances are that this book will tell me. The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors I do tend to be something of a pedant in my writing. I hate making mistakes in English, so if I am ever in doubt about something, this book keeps me right! The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Obviously! And in addition there are shelves full of play texts, classic and very modern, and lots of theatre programmes. Then there are catalogues of plays and shows from Samuel French, Josef Weinberger, Nick Hern, Methuen and many others, and standard works on specific theatre skills: lighting, sound, make-up, voice and text. For the latter two, I'm a great fan of Patsy Roddenbury (for voice work) and Cecily Berry (for working with text). For more general background, The Oxford Classical Dictionary and The Chronicle of the Twentieth Century. Then I have Harrap's Illustrated Dictionary of Music and Musicians, because I don't feel that I need anything as detailed (and expensive) as Grove's standard work. If I had to make do with just three books, they would be the Cambridge Guide, the Yearbook and the Shakespeare. But thankfully I don't have to make do - the shelf - now a couple of bookcases - just keeps on growing! Articles Indices:
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