Simon Shepherd is a Fellow of the British Academy and Professor Emeritus of Theatre at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. He has published on the cultural history of theatre, performance theory and formal analysis of drama. His most recent books are The Unknown Granville Barker (2021) and The Cambridge Introduction to Performance Theory (2016).

1. Experimental Theatre 2. Modernities 3. The Renovation of the Stage 4. Advanced Guards 5. Fantasy Play

The English Theatrical Avant-Garde 1900 - 1925 brings to light an extensive range of hitherto forgotten or ignored theatre practices, uncovering a new look at some of the well-known figures of the early Twentieth-Century English theatre.