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Theatre Book prizewinner announced

Theatre Book prizewinner Will Tosh (with certificate) with judges (l-r) Lucy Munro, Gary Naylor, Tricia Thorns and the society's panel chairman, Howard Loxton
Winner Will Tosh (with certificate) with judges (l-r) Lucy Munro, Gary Naylor, Tricia Thorns and the society's panel chairman, Howard Loxton

The Society for Theatre Research has awarded Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh (published by Sceptre) the society's theatre book prize for 2025.

The cover of Will Tosh's prizewinning book

Straight Acting asks if Shakespeare was gay, and offers an answer by exploring everything from

Shakespeare’s schooling to the representation of queer lives in his plays and poems. Tosh's book is a call to readers to recognise how queerness shaped the life and career of the world’s most famous playwright.

Will Tosh is interim director of higher education and research) at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre. His work at the Globe includes dramaturgy, new writing development and public engagement in the media and online.

He is also the author of Playing Indoors: Staging Early Modern Drama in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse (2018), and Male Friendship and Testimonies of Love in Shakespeare’s England (2016), which revealed the intimate social circle of Elizabethan spy Anthony Bacon.


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