Course Readings
To find
items in the Short Loan Collection, click the Readings & Exams tab in Library Search. Type the course name, ENGLISH100. Click Search. Sort by title, or use the options in the left-hand panel to refine the results.
Find Books
The following
searches are Subject Heading searches.
Search Tip: You can also use the The Catalogue to find material on the topics discussed in your course, e.g.shakespearean tragedy, medieval drama. From the results screen, use the options shown in the left hand side bar to refine your results.
Dictionaries and
Glossaries
Coredon, Christopher, ed. A dictionary of medieval terms
and phrases. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK ;
Rochester, NY. : D.S. Brewer, 2004.
Davis, Norman. A Chaucer
glossary. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press,
1979.
Dessem, Allen C. A dictionary of
stage directions in English drama, 1580-1642. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Onions,
C. T. A Shakespeare glossary. Oxford : Clarendon Press, 1986.
[Also available online as part of Literature
Online's Reference Shelf. From the Home Page, click Criticism and
Reference, and then use the pull-down menu to select this title from the Select
Reference item list.]
Schmidt,
Alexander. Shakespeare lexicon and quotation
dictionary..New
York, Dover Publications, 1971.
Trussler, Simon. Shakespearean concepts :
a dictionary of terms and conventions influences and institutions themes, ideas
and genres in the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama. London : Methuen, 1989.
Middle
English Compendium - use for Chaucer.
Click the Lookups link from the main screen.
Use the Headword and Forms option from the pull down menu [it shows Headword as
a default].
If your search is unsuccessful, truncate the word with an asterisk *, e.g. make draughte into draught*
Reference
Resources
Amtower, Laurel, and Jaqueline Vanhoutte. A companion to Chaucer and his contemporaries : texts & contexts. Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, 2009.
Brown, Peter, ed. A companion to medieval English literature and culture, c. 1350 - c.1500. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2007.
Ellis, Steve, ed. Chaucer : an Oxford Guide. Oxford ; New York: Oxford University Press,
2005.
Hattaway, Michael, ed. A companion to English renaissance literature and
culture. Oxford, UK
; Malden, Mass. : Blackwell, 2001.
Kinney, Arthur F., ed. A companion to Renaissance drama. Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers,
2008.
Kline, Daniel T., ed. The medieval British literature handbook. London ; New York : Continuum, 2009.
Lerer, Seth, ed. The Yale companion to Chaucer. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2006.
Andrew, Malcolm. The Palgrave literary dictionary of Chaucer. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, U.K. ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Ruud, Jay, ed. Encyclopedia of
medieval literature. New York : Facts On File, 2006.
Cambridge Companions
The Cambridge Companions series has several titles of relevance to this course. All titles are available in print, but also online via the Cambridge Collections Online database. The links below take you to the print edition in Voyager. Within the database, you can either search for an individual title, or enter a topic or name to search across titles within the Literature and Classics Collection.
Beadle, Richard, and Alan J. Fletcher, eds. The Cambridge
companion to medieval English theatre. Cambridge; New York : Cambridge
University Press, 2008.
Boitiano, Piero, and Jill Mann, eds. The Cambridge companion to Chaucer. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Braunmuller, A. R., and Michael
Hattaway, eds. The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama.
Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Cheney, Patrick, ed. The
Cambridge companion to
Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
McEachern, Claire, ed. The
Cambridge companion to Shakespearean tragedy. New York : Cambridge
University Press, 2002.
Hattaway, Michael, ed. The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare's history plays. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Find Articles
For help with using databases, please contact the Subject Librarian
GlobeLink
The web site of Shakespeare's reconstructed Globe Theatre at Bankside.
Take a virtual
tour of the theatre. The 2003 production of Richard III and the 2001 performance of Macbeth has photographs, audio interviews with actors and discussion of
the characters.
World
Shakespeare Bibliography - a database of references to books, book
chapters, and journal articles on all aspects of Shakespeare's plays.
Literature Online provides Knowledge Notes ™ on the
following works. You
must be logged on with NetID and Password to access Literature Online.
Internet
Resources
You
must be logged on with NetID and Password to access these sites.
Harvard University's Geoffrey
Chaucer page.
New Chaucer Society - scholarly site of materials on Chaucer and late medieval literature and culture, with links to many resources and an online bibliography of additional reading.
e-Chaucer :
Chaucer in the 21st century - from the University of Maine
Norton Topics Online - a web companion to The Norton Anthology of English Literature, with study resources for seven literary periods. See those for Medieval and 16th Century. Click the links in the left hand panel of the screen to explore other aspects of the period. Under ARCHIVE, there are Audio Readings from Chaucer's General Prologue and the Miller's Tale.
The
World of Chaucer - from the University of Glasgow's Special Collections.
Colour scanned images of books and manuscripts.
Luminariam
Click on Medieval link for Chaucer and drama.
Click on Renaissance link for Shakespeare and and Marlowe. The
Elizabethan Theatre
- a lecture and images from Dr. Hilda Spear, covering London, Inns and Innyards, Performance, Actors, Audiences and other aspects of the theatres.
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