This
Is All For You
(1972) Words and Pictures
Rossya, 1977 (Red Man). Produced by the Author.
Design by Ginni Gillam and the Author.
Line drawings by Roger Rees.
Hamlet: A User’s
Guide, 1996 (Nick Hern Books)
Twelfth Night: A User’s Guide, 2000 (Nick Hern Books)
Are You There, Crocodile? Inventing
Anton Chekhov, 2003 (Oberon Books).
This made the shortlist for the 2003 Theatre Book Prize. Others on the shortlist were Richard Eyre’s ‘National Service’, Oliver Ford Davies’s ‘Playing Lear’, John Haynes & James Knowlson’s ‘Images of Beckett’ and ‘A Short History of Western Performance Space by David Wiles. The judging panel consisted of Susannah Clapp, theatre critic of The Observer, Corin Redgrave and Jane Pritchard the English National Ballet archivist. They awarded the prize to Richard Eyre.
A Pocket Guide to Ibsen
Chekhov and Strindberg, in
collaboration with Stephen Unwin, 2004 (Faber and Faber)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: A User’s Guide, 2005 (Nick Hern Books)
You can check out
details on the Nick Hern Books web site – the address is: http://www.nickhernbooks.co.uk/?pagetype=offer&ISBN=1854598104
Chekhov’s
Three Sisters. A study guide by Michael Pennington. Published by Nick Hern
Books ISBN978 1 85459 899 8
The
following include contributions from Michael:
Players of
Shakespeare,
1985 (
The
Actors’ Choosing,
1997 (Long Barn)
Players
of Shakespeare 5,
2003 (
Darling Judi A Celebration of Judi
Dench (Ed. John
Miller), 2004 (Orion Books)
The
following books include substantial references to Michael:
Shakespeare
in the Theatre (Richard David), 1978 (
Shakespeare’s
Players (Judith
Cook), 1983 (Harrap Press)
Playing Shakespeare (John Barton), 1984 (
Directions by Indirections: John
Barton at the Royal Shakespeare Company (Michael L Greenwald), 1985 (
Shakespeare in Performance: Henry IV
Part I (Scott
McMillin), 1991 (
Shakespeare
Observed (Samuel
Crowl), 1992 (
Shakespeare
in Performance: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Miriam Gilbert), 1993 (Manchester University Press)
Shakespeare
in Performance. Hamlet
(Anthony B. Dawson), 1995 (
Shakespeare in Performance: Henry V (James N Loehlin), 1996 (
English
Shakespeares. Shakespeare on the English stage in the 1900s (Peter Holland), 1997 (Cambridge
University Press)
Shakespeare in the Theatre (compiled & edited by Stanley
Wells), 1997 (Oxford University Press)
Judi
Dench with a crack in her voice (John Miller), 1999 (Orion Books)
Shakespeare
in Production: Hamlet
(Edited by Robert Hapgood), 1999 (
Shakespearean Afterlives: Ten
Characters With a Life of Their Own (John O’Connor ), 2003 (Icon Books Ltd)
Shakespeare at
Merely Players? Actors’ accounts of performing
Shakespeare (Jonathan Holmes), 2004 (Routledge)
The above
isn’t, of course a comprehensive list, so if you’ve come across any others
please let me know!