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William Shakespeare
Scope|Circulating Books|Critical Sources
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Journals, & Trade Publications|Web Sites
Scope: William Shakespeare may be considered the greatest and most prolific writer of all time. He is the author of comedies, tragedies, histories and chronicles. Many of his plays have been adapted for theatrical production.
CIRCULATING BOOKS
Books of William Shakespeare's works are listed in the Baddour Library on-line catalog under," Shakespeare, William," and under individual titles, i.e. Romeo and Juliet.
Books written by and about William Shakespeare have the call numbers(s) PR3095.S524
PR 2826
PR 2827
Some representative books from the circulating collection that is located upstairs in the library are:
Ghose, Zulfikar. Shakespeare's Mortal Knowledge: A Reading of the Tragedies. New York: St. Martins Press, 1993.
Hilman, Richard. William Shakespeare: The Problem Plays. New York: Twayne, 1993,
Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare's Language. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.
McDonald, Russ. Shakespeare Reread: The Texts in New Contexts. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994.
Mack, Maynard. Everybody's Shakespeare: Reflections Chiefly on the Tragedies. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1993.
Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdy. New York: Routledge, 2001.
Pinciss, G. M.
Why Shakespeare: An Introduction to the Playwright’s Art.
New York:
Continuum, 2005.
Potter, Nicholas. William Shakespeare: Othello. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Shapiro, Michael. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994.
Shakespeare, William. Hamlet: An Authoritative Text, Intellectual Backgrounds, Extracts from the Sources, Essays in Criticism. New York: Norton, 1991.
Video 228 King Lear
CRITICAL SOURCES
There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic.
REF PR 502.C85 1992 Critical Survey of Poetry
REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol.62 Elizabethan Dramatists
REF PR 2892.C18 The Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare
PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, AND TRADE
PUBLICATIONS
Click the links for a list of full text journals
available through our databases in:
WEB
SITES
Literary Resources on the Net
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Lit/
Mr.
William Shakespeare and the Internet
http://shakespeare.palomar.edu
Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu
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Updated
02/08/2007
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