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
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Full Text Articles
These items are full-text e-resources in the Short Loan Collection. You must be logged on with NetID and password to gain access.
Course readings may only be used for the University's educational purposes. You may print a copy for your own use, but you may not make a further copy for any other purpose. You may not copy or distribute any part of the reading to any other person. Failure to comply with these terms may expose you to legal action for copyright infringement and/or disciplinary action by the University.
Holderness, Graham. "Are Shakespeare's tragic heroes 'fatally flawed'? Discuss." Critical Survey 1.1 (1989): 53-62.
Neill, Michael. "Death and The Revenger's Tragedy." Early modern English drama : a critical companion. Eds. Garrett A. Sullivan, Patrick Cheney, and Andrew Hadfield. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 164-176.
Neill, Michael. "English revenge tragedy." A companion to tragedy. Ed. Rebecca Bushnell. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2005. 328-350.
Voyager
Searches
Learn
how to use Voyager - enrol in a Library workshop
The
following are Subject Heading searches and will retrieve material about the authors and their work.
You can also use
these Subject Headings 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 marked with * listed below.
Search tip: To see the most recently published books at the top of the results list, click on the pull-down menu arrow  of the  box and select 
Reference Books
For more information about reference books,
and a more extensive list, see Reference
Resources for English
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.
Bushnell, Rebecaa, ed. A companion to tragedy. Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2005.
Coles, Chris. How to study a renaissance play. Basingstoke : Macmillan. 1988.
Uses Marlowe, Webster and Jonson as examples of how to approach the play.
Chapter on essay writing.
Dessen, Alan C. A dictionary of stage directions in English drama, 1580-1642. Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press, 1999.
Dobson, Michael, ed. The
Oxford companion to Shakespeare. Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2001.
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.
Also in print at 822.309 K59
O'Dell, Leslie. Shakespearean scholarship : a guide for actors and students. Westport, Conn. :
Greenwood Press, 2002.
Also in print at 822.33 To231s
Onions, C.T. A Shakespeare glossary. Oxford : Clarendon Press,
1986.
Indispensable for precise definitions.
Richmond, Hugh M. Shakespeare's theatre : a dictionary of his stage context. New York : Continuum, 2002.
Smith, Emma, ed. Shakespeare's tragedies.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Publishers, 2004.
*Sullivan, Garret A., Jr., Patrick
Cheney and Andrew Hadfield, eds. Early modern English drama : a critical companion. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Womack, Peter. English Renaissance drama. Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 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 play title, or enter a topic or name to search across titles within the Literature and Classics Collection.
Braunmuller, A. R., and Michael Hattaway,
eds. The Cambridge companion to English Renaissance drama. 2nd ed. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Cheney, Patrick, ed. The Cambridge companion to Christopher Marlowe. Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press, 2004.
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.
Databases
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.
*
ABELL+FT - 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 catalogue record
* 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 catalogue 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.
Dr.Faustus - text of play with glosses, textual variants
and links between different texts, from the Perseus project at Tufts
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.
The
Marlowe Society website - includes a newsletter, information on his
life and career.
The following are production reviews
Melly Still talks about The Revenger's Tragedy. This link goes to an archived file, and may be unstable. If it fails, use the website search box using "Melly Still" as a search term.
A review of Hamlet by Michael Billington in The Guardian.
A review in the TLS by Emma Smith of The Revenger's Tragedy performed recently at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.
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