Course
Material 
Most
items in the Short Loan Collection are set texts for course reading.
To find
item in the Short Loan Collection, select the Course
Material search. Click on the pull down arrow next to the Course
search box, and highlight the course name, ENGLISH 213 or 353. Click search.
Find Books
The
following are Subject Heading searches and will retrieve material about the authors and their work.
You can also use
these Subject Headings listed below to find books that discuss the drama,
tragedy, and plays of the period.
N.B. Arden of Faversham [Feversham]
is 'anonymous'. Use the first Subject Heading listed below to find
material on this play, and click the Full View of book catalogue records
to see if the play title is mentioned in the chapter headings.
Otherwise,
use one of the databases, or reference books listed below marked with * .
Reference Books
Bergeron, David M. and Geraldo U. De Sousa.
Shakespeare : a study and research guide. Lawrence, Kan. : University Press of Kansas, 1995.
Discusses various critical approaches to Shakespeare, and the resources
available. Chapter on writing a research paper.
print
Dessen, Alan C. A dictionary of stage directions in English drama, 1580-1642. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
print
Dillon, Janette. Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare's tragedies. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
print
Dobson, Michael, ed. The
Oxford companion to Shakespeare. Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2001.
print | online
O'Dell, Leslie. Shakespearean scholarship : a guide for actors and students. Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press, 2002.
print | online
Onions, C.T. A Shakespeare glossary. Oxford : Clarendon Press,
1986.
Indispensable for precise definitions.
print | online
Richmond, Hugh M. Shakespeare's theatre : a dictionary of his stage context. New York : Continuum, 2002.
print
| online
Smith, Emma, ed. Shakespeare's tragedies.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
___________. Cambridge introduction to Shakespeare. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
print
*Sullivan, Garret A., Jr., Patrick
Cheney and Andrew Hadfield, eds. Early modern English drama : a critical companion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
print
Blackwell Reference Online
This is an online collection of reference sources. Either search within a subject set of the database, or link to these individual titles. All are either in print or online:
Bushnell, Rebecaa, ed. A companion to tragedy. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Dutton, Richard,
and Jean E. Howard, eds. A companion to Shakespeare's works. 4 vols. Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
Volume 1 deals with the tragedies.
Hodgdon,
Barbara, and W. B. Worthen, eds. A companion to Shakespeare and performance. Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2005.
*Kinney, Arthur F,
ed. A companion to Renaissance drama. Malden, MA : Blackwell
Publishers, 2003.
Womack, Peter. English Renaissance drama. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2006.
Cambridge Companions and Shakespeare Survey
The Cambridge Companions series has several titles of relevance to this course. They are available online via the Cambridge Collections Online, and are also available in print. In addition to linking to individual Companions below you can search across all titles within the collection, using the title of a play, a name, or topic as a search term.
Braunmuller, A. R., and Michael Hattaway,
eds. The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
de Grazia, Margreta, and Stanley Wells,
eds. The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare. Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
McEachern, Claire, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean tragedy. New York : Cambridge University
Press, 2002.
Wells, Stanley, and Sarah Stanton, eds. The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on stage. New York :
Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Find Articles
For help with using databases, please
contact the Subject Librarian
The
following databases will provide references to material on all authors and
topics covered in this course. You must be logged on with NetID and
Password to access these databases.
* MLA International Bibliography -some articles full
text. Where full text is not available, use the  symbol to search Voyager. Links to full-text may be provided
through the Voyager record.
*Shakespeare Survey - this series is available in full text on line as part of Cambridge Collections Online. Click the link in the catalogue record. From the first screen, ensure that only Shakespeare Survey is ticked in the adjacent box. Type a search term in the search box, e.g. the title of a play, or a topic.
*World Shakespeare Bibliography - an on-line compilation of the annual
bibliographies from Shakespeare Quarterly. Indexes books, book chapters and articles on every
conceivable aspect of Shakespeare, including productions and film
adaptations, with cross-references to reviews. All references must be
checked on Voyager to see if the Library has the book or serial. Use Faversham as a keyword to find material on the play.
Internet
Resources
You must be logged on with NetID
and Password to access these sites.
Luminarium
- Click Renaissance link for Shakespeare and Marlowe.
Click the 17th Century link for Middleton and Webster.
Duchess
of Malfi - text of play with notes by Dr.
Larry Brown, Nashville University.
Multimedia
Tutorials - Shakespeare in Context from the Schoenberg Center
for Electronic Text and Image. Click on King Lear to be taken through
three different editions of the play using digitised images from the
original editions, with discussion on the implications for theatre
audiences.
"Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre". Six MP3 lectures by Emma Smith from Oxford University.
These podcasts are free downloads.
They may take some time to download.
Literature Online - Knowledge Notes™ for
Audio Plays
Literature Online Arkangel Shakespeare recordings. Play texts are linked from the recording - choose the 1866 edition of each play as this corresponds most closely with the recording.
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