Romantic and Revolutionary Theatre, 1789–1860. Edited by Donald Roy. Compiled and introduced by Victor Emeljanow, Kenneth Richards, and Laura Richards. Theatre in Europe: A Documentary History. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003; pp. 558. $130 cloth

I was introduced to sourcebooks as an undergraduate in the 1960s. At that time, the most frequently used were A. M. Nagler's A Sourcebook in Theatrical History (1952), Toby Cole's Directors on Directing (1963), and Toby Cole and Helen Chinoy's Actors on Acting (1948). These books first introduced me to the process of theatre history, and as I believe it is important to introduce this process to students, I continued to use both Nagler and the Cole and Chinoy volume, which was expanded in 1970, in teaching theatre history.