September 2006

All books are paperback unless stated otherwise.

TEXTS

BIOGRAPHY

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

PRODUCTIONS, PERFORMING AND REPRESENTATIONS

TEXTS

ADAPTATIONS OF SHAKESPEARE — A Critical Anthology of Plays From Seventeenth Century to the Present. Edited by Daniel Frischlin and Mark Fortier
This groundbreaking anthology brings together twelve theatrical adaptations of Shakespeare’s work from around the world and across the centuries. The plays include: This island’s mine Philip Osment, Harlem Duet Djanet Sears, Hamletmachine Heiner Müller, etc.

THE ANNOTATED SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth.Fully annotated with an introduction by Burton Raffel with an essay by Harold Bloom. ISBN 0 300 10654 8

THE APPLAUSE FIRST FOLIO OF SHAKESPEARE. Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. In Modern Type. Prepared & Annotated by Niel Freeman. Supervised and Produced for Applause by Paul Sugarman. ISBN 1 55783 333 8

CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL SHAKESPEARE. Series Editor: Rex Gibson
Macbeth: Edited by Rex Gibson. 0-521-60686-1
King Richard The Third: Edited by Pat Baldwin and Tom Baldwin
ISBN 0-521-61873-8The Tempest.Edited by Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 61878 9

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. Collins Classics. Edited by Professor Peter Alexander.
Includes a biography of Shakespeare by Germaine Greer and new introductions to the plays and poems, a glossary of around 2500 entries explaining the meaning of obsolete words and phrases, with line references to each occurrence. This edition also has line numbering which relates to the standard concordances.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SHAKESPEARE — Fifth Edition, David Bevington
A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and proven apparatus combine to make Bevington the most student-friendly introduction to Shakespeare on the market. ISBN 0 321 09333 X (HB)

THE FIRST QUARTO OF OTHELLO — Edited by Scott McMillin. ISBN 0 521 61594 1

NO FEAR SHAKESPEARE
This gives you the complete text on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right.
Hamlet — ISBN 1 58663 844 0
Julius Caesar — ISBN 1 58663 847 5
King Lear — ISBN 1 58663 853 X
Macbeth — ISBN 1 58663 846 7
The Merchant of Venice — ISBN 1 58663 850 5
A Midsummer Night’s Dream — ISBN 1 58663 848 3
Much Ado About Nothing — ISBN 1 4114 0101 8
Othello — ISBN 1 58663 852 1
Romeo and Juliet — ISBN 1 58663 845 9
The Taming of the Shrew — ISBN 1 4114 0100 X
The Tempest — ISBN 1 58663 849 1
Twelfth Night — ISBN 1 58663 851 3
As You Like It — ISBN 1 4114 0104 2

OXFORD SCHOOL SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Roma Gill
A well-established series that helps students understand and enjoy Shakespeare’s plays:
Anthony and Cleopatra. Roma Gill. ISBN O 19 832057 4
Henry IV. Part 1 Roma Gill ISBN 0 19 832058 2
King Lear. Roma Gill ISBN 0 19 832054 X
Love’s Labour’s Lost. Roma Gill ISBN 0 19 832012 4
Much Ado About Nothing. Roma Gill ISBN 0 19 832056 6
Othello. Roma Gill ISBN 0 19 832051 5
The Winter’s Tale. Roma Gill. ISBN 0 19 832055 8
Hamlet. ISBN 0 19 832049 3
As You Like It. ISBN 0 19 832048 5

THE SHAKESPEARE FOLIOS.
The Shakespeare Folios offer a brand new edition of the plays, combining for the first time the authenticity of the First Folio with the accessibility of modern type.
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 719 1
AS YOU LIKE IT — As you Like it. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 620 9
HAMLET — The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 620 9
HENRY IV, PART ONE. The First Part of Henry the Fourth. Edited by Nick de Smogyi. ISBN 1 85459 720 5
KING LEAR — The Tragedie of King Lear. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 718 3
MACBETH — The Tragedie of Macbeth. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 677 2
MEASURE FOR MEASURE — Measvre, For Measure. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 647 0
OTHELLO — The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 645 4
RICHARD II — The Life and death of King Richard the Second. . Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 678 0
RICHARD III — The Tragedie of Richard the Third. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 646 2
TWELFTH NIGHT — Twelfe Night, Or what you will. Edited by Nick de Somogyi. ISBN 1 85459 622 5

SHAKESPEARE ILLUSTRATED HAMLET — Prince of Denmark. With full text. Illustrated by Henriette Fox. HB
Illustrations based on Sir Laurence Olivier’s cinematic version of Hamlet. ISBN 0 9540439 0 1

SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS. Edited by Katherine Duncan-Jones. The Arden Shakespeare edition

TO BE OR NOT TO BE — Shakespeare’s Soliloquies — Ed. by Michael Kerrigan ISBN 0 146 003 772

BIOGRAPHY

AS I LIKE IT — A Story of Shakespeare and His Associates. Edna I. Shirley

1599 A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Here at last is an intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. ISBN 0 571 21481 9

NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY INSIGHTS. SHAKESPEARE AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES. Charles Nicholl
This new book argues that far from being a lone genius, Shakespeare belonged to a talented and influential group of writers, poets and dramatists. Charles Nicholl delves deep into the s anarchives of the National Portrait Gallery to investigate the portraits and lives of over twenty subjects as well as their patrons, actord lovers. The result is an essential to counterpart the recently acclaimed biographies of Shakespeare, providing new perspectives on a sixteenth-century renaissance in English literature and a rich legacy to the English-speaking world. HB ISBN 1-85514-367-4


SHAKESPEARE. Anthony Burgess
A surprise and delight — even for those readers who think they have a good grasp of the Bard. Among Shakespeare’s many biographers, none brings to his subject more passion and feeling for the creative act than Anthony Burgess.

SHAKESPEARE — A Very Short Introduction. Germaine Greer.
In this Very Short Introduction Germaine Greer explores Shakespeare as a thinker, unravelling the methods he used to dramatize moral and intellectual issues in a way that made his audience dazzlingly aware of an imaginative dimension to daily life. ISBN 0 19 280249 6

SHAKESPEARE — For All Time. Stanley Wells
From the entry of Shakespeare’s birth in Stratford church register to a Norwegian production of Macbeth in which the hero is represented by a tomato, this enthralling and splendidly illustrated book tells the story of Shakespeare’s life, his writings and his afterlife. Rich in anecdote and insight, authoritative and informative in equal measure, this magnificent book triumphantly proves Ben Johnson’s assertion that Shakespeare "was not of an age, but for all time." ISBN 0 333 90499 0 (Hardback)

SHAKESPEARE THE BIOGRAPHY. Peter Ackroyd.
Written with an intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, this is a book by a writer about a writer, and a fascinating and detailed depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited. ISBN 0 749 38655 9

WILL IN THE WORLD — How Shakespeare became Shakespeare. Stephen Greenblatt
"This compulsively readable and deeply imaginative book represents the most sympathetic investigation yet made into the ways in which Shakespeare’s life experiences inform his writings." Stanley Wells. ISBN 0 224 06276 X (HB)

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: A Popular Life. Garry O’ Connor.
This biography creates a vivid impression of Shakespeare’s family life, his marriage and sexuality, the intimate details of his background, and his relationships with theatre, his audiences and the towering political figures of his time such as Queen Elizabeth and the Earl of Essex. It captures the darkness and confusion of his religious feelings, and his painful search for identity as well as his continuous commitments to change and development.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE. His Life and Work. Anthony Holden
Wearing his considerable learning lightly, Holden brilliantly interleaves the poet’s own words with the known facts to breathe new life into a story never before told in such absorbing detail. " The perfect blend of erudition and accessibility" — the Daily Telegraph’s verdict on his life of Tchaikovsky — applies equally to his revealing, very human portrait of Shakespeare, which will surely remain the standard study for many years to come.

HISTORICAL BACKGROUND

THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE — Frank Kermode
Here, Frank Kermode, explains how the history and culture of the Elizabethan era are the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays. The circumstances of each play’s composition are acutely described, and set within a masterful portrait of Shakespeare’s England — its early capitalism, its court, its bursting population, and its epidemics, as well as its arts — including its theatre. ISBN 0 297 84881 X

EDMOND MALONE — Shakespearean Scholar. A Literary Biography. Peter Martin
Edmond Malone (1741-18120 was the greatest early editor of Shakespeare’s works, the first historian of early English drama, the biographer of Shakespeare, Dryden and Reynolds, and a relentless exposer of literary history through manuscripts and early editions laid the foundations for the scholar’s code and the modern study of literature. Yet he was also a gregarious man, attracting many friends — and enemies — among his contemporaries. This first modern full-length biography of Edmond Malone illuminates in a unique way both the intensely private world of the scholar and the highly public world of the late eighteenth— century artist. ISBN 0 521 61982 3

ON SHAKESPEARE AND EARLY MODERN LITERATURE ESSAYS — John Kerrigan
John Kerrigan is one of the foremost critics of English literature. This richly informed collection brings together his essays on such major figures as Sir Philip Sidney and Milton, but also less celebrated writers, including Thomas Carew and — in a new piece — William Dummond, to reconfigure the familiar and help extend the canon. Shakespeare looms large; his plays and poems, and his influence on Keats, are the subject of half the book. ISBN 0 19 926917 3

LONDON CIVIC THEATRE — City Drama and Pageantry from Roman Times to 1558. Anne Lancashire
Anne Lancashire explodes the widely held notion that significant London theatre arose only in the age of Shakespeare, when the first commercial playhouses were built there. She outlines the extent and types of early civic theatrical performance, specifically in London, from Roman times to Elizabeth I’s accession to the throne in 1558, focusing on Roman amphitheatre shows, medieval and early Tudor plays, mummings, royal entries, and other kinds of street pageantry. ISBN 0 521 63278 1 (HB)

PLAYGOING IN SHAKESPEARE’S LONDON — Andrew Gurr. Third Edition
This is a newly revised edition of Andrew Gurr’s Classic account of the people for whom Shakespeare wrote his plays. Gurr assembles evidence from the writings of the time to describe the physical structure of the playhouses, the services provided in the auditorium, the cost of a ticket and a cushion, the size of the crowds, the smells, the pickpockets, and the collective feelings generated by the plays. ISBN 0 521 54322 3

RENAISSANCE DRAMA AND THE POLITICS OF PUBLICATION — Readings in the English Book Trade. Zachary Lesser
Shifting our focus from author to publisher and from first performance to first edition, Zachary Lesser offers a new vantage point on the drama of Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster, and their contemporaries. Renaissance Drama and the Politics of Publication reimagines the reception and meaning of plays by reading them through the eyes of their earliest publishers. ISBN 0 521 84252 2 (HB)

SHAKESPEARE AND THEATRICAL PATRONAGE IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. White and Westfall
The wide-ranging study relates patronage to Shakespeare and the theatrical culture of his time. Twelve distinguished theatre historians address such questions as: What important functions did patronage have for the theatre during this period? How, in turn, did the theatre impact upon us and represent patronage? In what ways do patronage, political power, and playing intersect? The authors also show how patronage practices changed and developed from the early Tudor period to the years in which Shakespeare was the English theatre’s leading artist. ISBN 0 521 81294 1 HB

SHAKESPEARE BY STAGES — A Historical Introduction. Arthur F. Kinney
In the engaging text, Arthur F. Kinney introduces students to Shakespeare’s plays in context of Elizabethan and Jacobean theatre. He focuses on the material conditions of playing and of playgoing in order to show how they both inspired and restricted Shakespeare’s art. ISBN 0 631 22469 6

THE SHAKESPEARE COMPANY 1594 -1642 . Andrew Gurr
This is the first complete history of the theatre company in which Shakespeare acted and which stages all his plays. Created in 1594, the company became the King’s Men in 1603 and ran for forty-eight years up to the closure of 1642. Andrew Gurr provides a study of the company’s activities, explores its social role in its time and examines its repertoire of plays. This comprehensive illustrated history will be an indispensable guide for anyone who wants to know more about the conditions under which Shakespeare and his successors worked. ISBN 0 521 80730 1 (HB)

SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND — Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times. Edited and Introduced by R.E. Pritchard
This is an intriguing and fascinating collection of excerpts from some of the best, wittiest and most unusual sixteenth and seventeenth century writing. Shakespeare’s England brings to life the variety, the energy and the harsh reality of England at this time. Providing a fascinating picture of the age, it includes extracts from a wide range of writing, taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare’s contemporaries. ISBN 0 7509 3211 2

SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBE REBUILT. Edited by J. R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring
The realisation of the vision of Sam Wanamaker and his architect Theo Crosby, has aroused intense interest among scholars and the general public world-wide. A fully illustrated account of the research which has gone into the Globe reconstruction. A book which will fascinate scholarly readers and laymen alike.

SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS. John Julius Norwich
Just where did history stop and drama begin? To this day, the popular imagination views this turbulent period of history through Shakespeare’s eyes. The author establishes just how real Shakespeare’s characters and events are and what liberties he took with the facts to improve the pace of the plays and to entertain his audience. Events include the War of the Roses, the death of the Princes in the Tower and the Battle of Bosworth. ISBN 0 14 024913 3

TRAVELLING PLAYERS IN SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND. Siobhan Keenan
This book has taken a different viewpoint of the study of Elizabethan and Jacobean travelling players and focuses on professional theatre outside London at the time. Rarely has investigation into theatre in non-metropolitan areas at the time of Shakespeare been done, making it an ‘excellent exploration’. ISBN 0 333 96820 4

WHO’S WHO IN SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLAND. Alan and Veronica Palmer
Covering the period from the Spanish Armada in 1588 to publication of the First Folio in 1623, this book presents over 700 biographies of the leading ‘player’s of Shakespeare’s time — in the arts, politics, the church, the Court, the secret service, and the theatre. In addition to figures as diverse as Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon and Queen Elizabeth I, Shakespeare’s family and Stratford connections are included, along with many lesser figures whom he knew personally, and others whose fame and notoriety may have influenced him. With its useful glossary of unusual terms and extensive cross-references, this detailed study richly illustrates the variety and complexity of the life of the period and will be invaluable to legions of Shakespeare lovers.

ANALYSIS & CRITICISM

ACTING FROM SHAKESPEARE’S FIRST FOLIO: Theory, Text and Performance. Don Weingust
Acting from Shakespeare’s First Folio: Theory, Text and Performance examines a series of techniques for reading and performing Shakespeare’s plays that are based on the texts of the first "complete" volume of Shakespeare’s works: the "First Folio" of 1623. ISBN 978 0 415 97916 0

CAMBRIDGE STUDENT GUIDE —
Key features will guide you towards: evaluating the significance of historical, social and cultural contexts; expressing independent opinions and judgements, informed by different interpretations; understanding critical approaches to the play; structuring your writing to produce persuasive, informed and coherent responses.
Antony and Cleopatra — Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 53858 0
As You Like it — Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 00821 2
Coriolanus — Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 53859 9
King Lear — Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 00818 2
King Richard III— Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 00812 3
King Richard III— Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 53849 1
Macbeth. Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 00826 3
Measure for Measure. Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 53850 5
The Merchant of Venice. Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 00816 6
Much Ado About Nothing — Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 00824 7
Othello — Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 00811 5
The Tempest — Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 53857 2
Twelfth Night — Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 00820 4
The Winter’s Tale. — Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 00817 4

CAMBRIDGE STUDENT GUIDE — Second edition
This series provides clear structured introductions to Shakespeare’s most famous plays

Hamlet — Paul A. Cantor. ISBN 0 521 54937 X

NEW CASEBOOKS SERIES.
New Casebooks brings together the best of contemporary criticism and new critical thinking, illuminating the rich interchange between modern critical theory and practice that characterises the current discussion of literature.
Othello. Lena Cowen Orlin. ISBN 0 333 633357 1
Romeo and Juliet. R.S White. ISBN 0 333 74781 X
Shakespeare’s Problem Plays. All’s Well That Ends Well. Measure for Measure. Troilus and Cressida. Contemporary Critical Essays. Edited by Simon Barker
ISBN 0 333 65428 5

DISCOVERING SHAKESPEARE — A Workbook for Students and Teachers. Written and Edited by Rick Hamilton and Freddie Olster
" Finally, an intelligent, extremely useful, passionate, and illuminating tool for young actors and teachers meeting Mr Shakespeare on the stage and on the page. Olster and Hamilton, two of America’s finest Shakespearean actors, have crafted an exciting and practical series of workbooks offering young people an accessible, highly accurate, grasp of Shakespeare text and delivered with benevolent understanding and insight gathered from years of experience as professional classical actors" Craig Slait, Artistic Director of the Young Conservatory, American Conservatory Theatre
Titles available —
Romeo and Juliet. ISBN 1 57525 044 6
The Taming of the Shrew. ISBN 1 57525 046 2
Macbeth. ISBN 1 57525 149 3
A Midsummer Night’s Dream — ISBN 1 57525 042 X
Much Ado About Nothing — ISBN 1 57525 143 4

GRANVILLE BARKER’S PREFACES TO SHAKESPEARE. Foreword by Richard Eyre
" I still find Granville Granville Barker indispensable after 45 years of using his Prefaces. He is the only critic who consistently treats Shakespeare as a playmaker of living drama, rather than as written texts." Peter Hall
Hamlet. ISBN 1 85459 786 8

NELSON THORNES SHAKESPEARE
Nelson Thornes Shakespeare offers a flexible package that is deigned to enhance students’ knowledge, understanding and response, with particular reference to GCSE and AS Assessment Objectives and criteria.
Scene-by-scene features: Introduction: Points out a central feature to look out for as the plot develops. Performance: Carefully focused, practical suggestions for exploring Shakespeare’s stagecraft and the dramatic devices used in the play. Glossary: Extensive line-referenced notes provide clear explanations of words, phrases, and meaning. Comparison: Opportunities to consider the scene in the context of the play as whole. Summary: Ensures the plot is understood and provides a link to next scene. In addition, introductory essays provide focus on topics related to social, cultural and historical context.

Macbeth — Volume editor: Dinah Jurksaitis. ISBN 0 7487 6955 2
The Tempest — Volume editor: David Stone. ISBN 0 7487 6958 7
Romeo and Juliet — Volume editor: Duncan Beal. ISBN 0 7487 6956 0
The Merchant of Venice — Volume editor: Tony Farrell ISBN 0 7487 6957 9
Henry IV Part One — Volume editor: Lawrence Green ISBN 0 7487 6968 4
Julius Caesar — Volume editor: Mark Morris ISBN 0 7487 6959 5

The Teacher Resource Book contains six assignments (four for GCSE and two for AS) which provide original approaches to coursework and give students a framework for their work. Features: Introductory sheets providing specific criteria for reaching desired grades in the study of Shakespeare in GCSE English, GCSE English Literature, and AS English Literature courses. Photocopiable worksheets with scene references and attractive illustrations. Themes of structure, language interpretation, character, context, staging. Discussion points for reading and response with the whole class. Individual work which can be used as a homework resource. Activity grids which provide useful mapping of themes to corresponding worksheets.

Macbeth — Volume editor: Dinah Jurksaitis. ISBN 0 7487 6961 7
The Tempest — Volume editor: David Stone. ISBN 0 7487 6965 X
Romeo and Juliet — Volume editor: Duncan Beal. ISBN 0 7487 6962 5
The Merchant of Venice — Volume editor: Tony Farrell ISBN 0 7487 6963 3
Henry IV Part One — Volume editor: Lawrence Green ISBN 0 7487 6960 9
Julius Caesar — Volume editor: Mark Morris ISBN 0 7487 6967 6

THE ROUGH GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE. The Plays, the Poems, the Life with reviews of Productions , CDs and movies. Andrew Dickson
The ultimate companion to the life and work of the world’s greatest playwright — ideal for the theatregoers, students, movie buffs and lovers of literature alike. Both a quick reference and an in-depth background guide. ISBN 1 843353 518 1

SPARKNOTES — Today’s Most Popular Study Guides.
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes give you just what you need to succeed in school. Each SparkNote contains: complete plot summary and analysis; keyfacts about the work; author’s historical context; analysis of major characters; suggested essay topics; themes, motifs and symbols; 25-question Review Quiz; explanation of important quotations.
Antony and Cleopatra. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 471 2
As You Like It. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 472 0
Hamlet. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 351 1
Henry IV. Part I. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 519 0
Julius Caesar. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 361 9
King Lear. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 406 2
Macbeth. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 353 8
The Merchant of Venice. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 390 2
The Midsummer Night’s Dream. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 404 6
Much Ado About Nothing. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 444 5
Othello. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 421 6
Richard III. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 486 0
Romeo and Juliet. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 358 9
The Taming of the Shrew. ISBN 1 58663 389 9
The Tempest. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 412 7
Twelfth Night. William Shakespeare. ISBN 1 58663 394 5

SPARKNOTES 1O1: SHAKESPEARE 38 Plays. 20 Sonnets. One Book.
Everything you need to know about Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, including character lists; one-sentence summaries of every act and scene; scene-by-scene plot synopses; analyses of major characters; key themes, symbols; motifs, and quotations. Perfect for Test review, Homework help, General Reference. ISBN 1 4114 0027 5

TEACH YOURSELF LITERATURE GUIDES
These study guides are a brand new way to help you get a top grade in English. They make use of the latest scientific knowledge on how the brain works best to show you how you can work faster, shorten your study time and still get a higher grade.
Twelfth Night — Ruth Coleman, with Tony Buzan

KEY STAGE 3
Twelfth Night — Saun McCarthy, with Tony Buzan. ISBN 0 340 80227 8
Henry V — Saun McCarthy, with Tony Buzan. ISBN 0 340 80228 6



TEXT AND CONTEXTS
Measure For Measure — Texts and Contexts. Edited by Ivo Kamps and Karen Raber
"[This edition] offers a solid historical/cultural context for the play; it suggests interesting lines of interpretation; it includes many works which even specialist readers might know as well as the more well-known ones." William Carroll, Boston University. ISBN 1 4039 3237 9
Merchant Of Venice — Texts and Contexts. Edited by M. Lindsay Kaplan
"Professor Kaplan’s edition is a welcome corrective to some readings of this play and a much-needed resource for college faculty … Among its strengths is Kaplan’s concern to represent "the multiplicity of ideas available in the period," rather than to reduce the play to traditional opposition … The materials from early modern Jewish writers on usury are superb." — Karen Cunnington, University of California, Los Angeles. ISBN 0 333 973526
Romeo and Juliet — Texts and Contexts. Edited by Dympna Callaghan
"This is a wonderful text for any instructor who wants students to get an in-depth look at Romeo and Juliet. It makes a major contribution to our understanding of how family dynamics work in the play." — Virginia Mason Vaughan, Clark University ISBN 0 33394713 4

WRITERS AND THEIR WORK: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
"... this series promises to outshine its own previously high reputation ... a rare series of creative scholarship." — Times Higher Education Supplement
As You Like It. Penny Gay
Antony and Cleopatra. Kenneth Parker
Hamlet. Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor
The Merchant of Venice Warren Chernaik
Othello Emma Smith
Richard 111 Edward Burns


YORK NOTES FOR GCSE
York Notes for GCSE offer an exciting approach to English literature and will help you to achieve a better grade. This market-leading series has been completely updated to reflect the needs of today’s students. The new editions are packed with detailed summaries, commentaries, on key themes, characters, language and style, illustrations, exam advice and much more. Written by GCSE examiners and teachers, York Notes are the authoritative guides to exam success.
The Merchant Of Venice ISBN 0 582 50616 6
A Midsummer Night’s Dream. ISBN 0 582 50615 8
Henry V. Notes by David Langston. ISBN 0 582 77268 0
Julius Caesar. Notes by Martin Walker ISBN 0 582 77269 9

YORK NOTES ADVANCED. General Editors: Martin Gray and Professor A.N. Jeffares
Building on the successful formula of York Notes, this Advanced series introduces students to a more sophisticated analysis and wider critical perspectives. This enables students to appreciate contrasting interpretations of the text and to develop their own critical thinking.
Titles available include:
Henry IV Part 1. ISBN 0 582 43160 3
Macbeth ISBN 0 582 42473 9
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Much Ado About Nothing
Richard III ISBN 0 582 43143 3
Romeo and Juliet
The Winter’s Tale
Twelfth Night ISBN 0 582 43150 6

YORK NOTES. Key Stage 3
These notes are aimed at pupils who studying a Shakespeare play for the first time. They provide easy-to-use guidance that carefully leads students through the play to reach a better understanding and appreciation. In his way, they are able to tackle the Key Stage 3 courses and tests with confidence. Titles include:
Macbeth
Twelfth Night

ACTING IN SHAKESPEARE. Revised and expanded second edition. Robert Cohen
Acting in Shakespeare helps actors at all levels develop the skills they need to perform in Shakespearean plays. Lessons and exercises appropriate for both classroom and individual study. ISBN 1-57525-422-0

AFTER SHAKESPEARE — Writing Inspired by the World’s Greatest Author. Edited by John Gross
This unique anthology draws on vast literature which shows, with immediacy and passion, the enormous impact Shakespeare has had on our cultural life. Novelists, poets, and playwrights are all represented, as are philosophers, historians, composers, film-makers, and politicians. ISBN 0 19 280472 3

THE AGE OF SHAKES PEARE Frank Kermode
Frank Kermode explains how the history and culture of the Elizabethan era are the backdrop to William Shakespeare and his plays. ISBN 0-75381-995-3

THE ARDEN DICTIONARY OF SHAKESPEARE QUOTATIONS. Compiled by Jane Armstrong
This book contains over 3000 quotations, both familiar and little-known, drawn from throughout Shakespeare’s work, both plays and poems. Organized by topic and with a detailed keyword index giving access to individual phrases, this book is both user-friendly and enjoyable for the casual reader.

AS SHE LIKES IT — Shakespeare’s Unruly Women. Penny Gay. HB and PB
Unique amongst both Shakespearean and feminist studies, As She Likes It asks how gender politics affect the production of the comedies, and how gender is represented, both in the text and on the stage.

BEGINNING SHAKESPEARE — Lisa Hopkins
This introduces students to the study of Shakespeare and grounds their understanding of his work in theoretical discourses. ISBN 0 7190 6423 6

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SHAKESPEAREAN COMEDY — Ed by Alexander Leggatt.
This is an accessible, wide-ranging, and informed introduction to Shakespeare’s comedies and romances. Rather than taking each play in isolation, the chapters trace recurring issues, suggesting both the continuity and the variety of Shakespeare’s practice, and the creative use he made of the conventions he inherited. ISBN 0 521 77942 1

THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY. Edited by Claire McEachern
This Companion acquaints the student reader with the forms, contexts, critical and theatrical lives of the ten plays considered to be Shakespeare’s tragedies. Shakespearean tragedy is a highly complex and demanding theatre genre, but the thirteen essays, written by leading scholars in Britain and North America, are clear, concise and informative. They address the ways in which Shakespearean tragedy originated, developed and diversified, as well as how it has fared on stage, as text and in criticism. The book examines the four major tragedies and, in addition, Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Coriolanus and Timon of Athens. ISBN 0 521 79359 9

THE COMPLETE PELICAN SHAKESPEARE — General Editors Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmuller.
This features authoritative and meticulously researched texts and essays on Shakespeare’s life, the theatrical world of his time, and the selection of texts. ISBN 0 14 100058 9 (HB)

"COUNTERFEITING" SHAKESPEARE — Evidence, Authorship, and John 2 Ford’s Funerall Elegye. Brian Vickers
Brain Vickers addresses the fundamental issue of what Shakespeare actually wrote, and how this is determined. In recent years Shakespeare’s authorship has been claimed for two poems, the lyric "Shall I Die?" and A Funerall Elegye. These attributions have been accepted into certain major editions of Shakespeare’s works. Through a fresh examination of the evidence, Professor Vickers shows that neither poem has the stylistic and imaginative qualities we associate with Shakespeare. In other words, they are "Counterfeit," in the sense of anonymously authored works wrongly presented as Shakespeare’s. He identifies the poet and dramatist John Ford as the actual author of the Elegye. ISBN 0 521 77243 5

CULTURAL SHAKESPEARE — Essays in Shakespeare Myth. Graham Holderness
This volume brings together for the first time a definitive collection of Graham Holderness’s writings on Shakespeare and national culture and the "Shakespeare Myth". Published in books and Journals between 1985 and 1997, these essays constitute a unique resource for the study of "Shakespeare" as a cultural phenomenon or ideological apparatus, as distinct from Shakespeare the poet and playwright. ISBN 1 902806 11 5

DISOWNING KNOWLEDGE — In Seven Plays of Shakespeare. Updated Edition. Stanley Cavell.
Reissued with a new essay on Macbeth this famous collection of essays on Shakespeare’s tragedies considers these plays as responses to the crisis of knowledge and the emergence of modern scepticism provoked by the new science of the late 16th and early 17th centuries. ISBN 0 521 52920 4

DOING SHAKESPEARE — Simon Palfrey
This demystifies and clarifies the study of Shakespeare, tackling many of the challenges students and audiences face in understanding the drama and language. It confronts the most basic and commonly asked questions: does Shakespeare matter; does he have anything to say to us; if he has, why does he have to say it like he does? How does Shakespeare do it — and how are we supposed to "do" Shakespeare? ISBN 1 904271 54 5

DRAMA AND THE MARKET IN AGE OF SHAKESPEARE. Douglas Bruster
Douglas Bruster’s provocative study of English Renaissance drama explores its links with Elizabethan and Jacobean economy and society, looking at the professional status of playwrights such as Shakespeare, and the establishment of commercial theatre. ISBN 0 521 60706 X

ESSENTIAL SHAKESPEARE HANDBOOK — Leslie Dunton-Downer. Alan Riding
The definitive, fully illustrated single-volume companion to the world’s greatest playwright. ISBN 0 7513 4882 1

THE EVERYTHING SHAKESPEARE BOOK — A Comprehensive Guide to Understanding the Comedies; Tragedies, and Sonnets of the Bard. Peter Rubie. ISBN 0 715 31951 5

EVOKING (and Forgetting Shakespeare!) SHAKESPEARE. Peter Brook
Based on a talk given by Peter Brook in Berlin, this book addresses a number of essential questions about performing Shakespeare today. "Why is Shakespeare not out of date?" " What do we mean by Shakespeare’s ‘genius’ or ‘creativity’ or ‘poetry’? " The book is an illuminating and provocative take on our greatest playwright by one of his most influential modern interpreters. ISBN 1 85459 712 4

EXIT, PURSUED BY A BEAR — An A-Z guide to Shakespeare’ s plays, poems and stagecraft. Louise McConnell. Foreword by Michael Boyd. Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company.
This book is a unique guide to the plays, the poems and the world of Shakespeare. Its simple A-to-Z format explains all the terms used in Shakespearean study, from GCSE to degree level. Detailed and authoritative, it is also an invaluable reference for theatregoers, or anyone involved in staging Shakespeare production. ISBN 0 7475 7212 7

A FEMINIST COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE. — Ed. by Dympna Callaghan
The question is not whether Shakespeare studies needs feminism, but whether feminism needs Shakespeare. The all-women team of contributors to A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare argues that not only is Shakespeare important for women, his works are especially important for feminism. The collected essays address issues vital to feminist enquiry such as race, sexuality, the body, queer politics, and the advent of capitalism, but also appropriate ground that has hitherto been regarded as terrain hostile to feminism, such as textual editing and theatre history. ISBN 0 631 20807 0

GCSE ENGLISH — SHAKESPEARE. BOOST YOUR GRADE. York Personal Tutors.
This personal tutor will become invaluable throughout your course. Each subject is explained in plain language and under the guidance of the personal Tutor you will identify which areas you need to concentrate on. So, by the time the exams come around, you will feel confident and fully prepared. ISBN 0 582 40426 6

A GRAMMAR OF SHAKESPEARE’S LANGUAGE — N F Blake
Steering clear of linguistic jargon, Professor Blake provides a detailed analysis of Shakespeare’s language. He includes accounts of the morphology and syntax of different parts of speech, as well as highlighting features such as concord, negation, repetition and ellipsis. He treats not only traditional features such as the make-up of clauses, but also how language is used in various forms of conversational exchange, such as forms of address, discourse markers, greetings and farewells. This book will help you to understand much that may have previously seemed difficult or incomprehensible, thus enhancing your enjoyment of his plays. ISBN 0 333 72591 3

GREEN SHAKESPEARE. From Ecopolitics to Ecocriticism. Gabriel Egan. Accents on Shakespeare, General Editor: Terence Hawkes.
Ecocriticism, a theoretical movement examining cultural constructions of Nature in their social and political contexts, is making an increasingly important contribution to our understanding of Shakespeare’s plays. ISBN 0 415 32296 0

HAMLET — A User’s Guide. Michael Pennington
The author draws on his inside experience of many productions of the play to take the reader through Hamlet scene by detailed scene. He discusses each of the characters in the play and their different roles in the action.

THE HAMLET DIARY. Shakespeare’s Play from Conception to Opening Night. (Includes Performance Text) Mark Kilmurry.
A moving and illuminating account of the trials and triumphs of producing Hamlet from a gifted actor, writer and director. ISBN 0 86819 785 8


HAMLET IN PIECES — Shakespeare reworked by Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson. Andy Lavender
Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson have each attempted a radical reworking of Hamlet; and this book examines their very different approaches. Vividly reconstructing each of the three productions, the author offers a dynamic combination of casebook and critique.
ISBN 1 85459 618 7

HAMLET IN PURGATORY. Stephen Greenblatt
"Hamlet in Purgatory is virtuoso exercise in untangling the interwoven threads of feeling and belief in early-seventeenth-century England ... In this bold and brilliant book, Greenblatt demonstrates utterly and compellingly why Hamlet can still hold our spiritual attention today." — Lisa Jardine

HAMLET’S DRESSER — A Memoir. Bob Smith
The bard’s observations of the human condition are explored by Smith beautifully, and this book has been described as ‘a masterpiece’. ISBN 0 6710 18248

HAMLET’S HEIRS. Shakespeare and the Politics of a New Millennium. Linda Charnes
Speaking to readers in a voice that is adventurous rather than authoritative, innovative rather than institutional, and speculative rather than orthodox, Charnes reveals that when it comes to legacy we are all, in one way and another, Hamlet’s heirs. ISBN 0 415 26194 5

HAMLET VERSES LEAR — Cultural Politics and Shakespeare’s Art. R.A. Foakes
This book focuses on the two plays of Shakespeare that have generally contended for the title of "greatest" among his works. Hamlet remained a focal point of reference until about 1960, when it was displaced by King Lear, a play which at the same time ceased to be perceived as a play of redemption and became a play of despair. Foakes attempts to explain these shifts by analysing the reception of the plays since about 1800, an analysis which necessarily engages with the politics of the plays and the politics of criticism. ISBN 0521 60705 1

HEARING THE MEASURES — Shakespearean and Other Inflections. Selected essays by George T. Wright
A gathering of perceptive essays written over twenty-five years, this book by a distinguished scholar and poet helps us hear the measures poets use to conjure up strangeness, urgency, distance, surprise, the immediacy of speech, or the sounding of silence. ISBN 0 299 17194 9

A HISTORY OF SHAKESPEARE ON SCREEN. — A Century of Film and Television. Kenneth S. Rotwell
This book chronicles how film-makers have re-imagined Shakespeare’s plays in moving images from their earliest exhibition in nickelodeons to today’s multi-million dollar productions shown in multiplexes. Topics covered include the silent era, Hollywood in the 1930s, the films of Laurence Olivier and Orsen Welles, the transgressive cinema of Jarman and Greenaway, and the renaissance of the Shakespeare film with Kenneth Brannagh in the 1990s

HOW TO ENJOY SHAKESPEARE. Robert Thomas Fallon
A guide for the perplexed — this book will help you overcome puzzles of language, theme, staging, character, and plot so that you can delight in the Bard’s great plays. HB ISBN 1-56663-618-3

HOW TO READ A SHAKESPEARE PLAY. David Bevington
How should we read Shakespeare plays? In this clear and succinct book, author David Bevington, who has extensive experience of teaching Shakespeare to students, encourages readers to approach his works aggressively, interactively and questioningly. Bevington suggests that readers think of themselves as armchair directors, deciding what the actors should wear, what social class they represent, why they are there, and, most importantly, what they are after. ISBN 1 4051 1396 0

IMAGINING SHAKESPEARE — Stephen Orgel
In this beautifully illustrated book, one of the foremost Shakespeareans of our time explores the ways in which Shakespeare has been imagined from his time to ours. In wide-ranging discussions of plays as disparate a Henry V, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter’s Tale, six richly detailed chapters anatomize the changing nature of dramatic representation over the centuries. ISBN 1 4039 1177 0 (HB)

IN ARDEN: EDITING SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Ann Thompson and Gordon McMullan
This collection of specially commissioned essays from international group of Arden editors focuses on the particular issues of editing Shakespeare’s texts. ISBN 1 904271 31 6


IN SEARCH OF SHAKESPEARE. Michael Wood.
Almost four hundred years after his death, Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world’s greatest dramatist, yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this newly updated edition of his acclaimed biography Michael Wood looks afresh at Shakespeares life, brilliantly recreating the turbulent times through which the poet lived. ISBN 0-563-52141-4

INSTANT SHAKESPEARE — A Proven Technique for Actors, Directors, and Teachers. Louis Fantasia of the Shakespeare Globe Centre, U.S.A
Expanded and refined in performances and workshops throughout the world, Instant Shakespeare allows performers, directors, and teachers of all cultures and levels of experience to demystify Shakespeare and perform his texts in ways that are clear, fresh and unpretentious. The author’s methods are solidly grounded in a rigorous analysis of the text and structured of Shakespeare’s plays, and enriched by the insight into Elizabethan performance practices gleaned from his intimate association with the Shakespeare Globe in London. ISBN 0 713668 539

INTRODUCING SHAKESPEARE. Nick Groom
This book looks at how "The Bard" has been worshipped at different times and in different places, demonstrating to what cultural and political ends Shakespeare has been put, and explaining the intensity of current critical disputes. The compelling and controversial conclusion is that, after centuries, Shakespeare remains the battlefield on which our very comprehension of humanity is being fought out. ISBN 1 84046 262 0

AN INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE — The Dramatist in His Context. Peter Hyland
The author gives a highly readable account of what is known about Shakespeare’s life, and maps out the historical, social and intellectual pressures of his time. He provides a comprehensive description of the development of the theatrical profession in Shakespeare’s England and of the practical constraints of his work.

AN INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE’S LATE PLAYS. Joe Nutt
Shakespeare’s last four plays – Pericles, The Winter’s Tale, Cymbeline and The Tempest, have grown considerably in critical stature in recent years. This engaging new study takes a comprehensive look at all four plays and contains detailed analyses to show you how to approach Shakespeare’s verse and consider its dramatic potential. ISBN 0 33391463 5

LATE SHAKESPEARE- — A New World of Words. Simon Palfrey
Shakespeare’s late plays are usually seen as courtly fairy tales, the valedictory works of a man looking forward to peace, reconciliation, and retirement. In this radical new approach, however, the author recovers the works’ popular and irreverent elements, their challenge to authority, and the sexual and ideological unruliness which both impels and threatens their idealism.

LOCAL SHAKESPEARES. Proximations and Power. Martin Orkin
This remarkable volume challenges scholars and students to look beyond a dominant European and North American ‘metropolitan bank’ of Shakespeare knowledge. As well as revealing the potential for a new understanding of Shakespeare’s plays, Martin Orkin explores a fresh approach to issues of power, where ‘proximations’ emerge from a process of dialogue and challenge traditional notions of authority. ISBN 0-415-34879-X

LOOK TO THE LADY. Sarah Siddons, Ellen Terry, and Judi Dench on the Shakespearean Stage. Russ McDonald
"Sarah Siddens. Ellen Terry. Judi Dench. Names with which to conjure, and Russ a McDonald’s Look to the Lady does just that, bringing the three actors’ presence’s and performances into celebratory dialogue. Interweaving biographical details, theater history, and cultural commentary, McDonald tells a fascinating story that not only recounts how each actor prepares a role but also maps a trajectory that draws all three performers and their performances together, providing insight into a tradition of great Shakespearean acting." Barbara Hodgdon, author of The Shakespeare Trade: Performances and Appropriations. HB ISBN 0-8203-2506-6

LOOKING FOR SEX IN SHAKESPEARE — Stanley Wells
Stanley Wells’s new book, written with characteristic verve and accessibility, considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare’s writing is a matter of interpretation by actors, directors and critics. ISBN 0 521 54039 9

THE LOVES OF SHAKESPEARE’S WOMEN. Susannah York. HB
In this enchanting anthology, each passionate woman is captured at the very moment she speaks her mind about a particular aspect of love — not just romantic love but every kind, love of family or friend, of God, of country, even love of an abstract ideal. Threading the pieces together is a delightfully astute commentary by Susannah York on what makes each of these women tick. And opening the book is an engaging account of the origins of the project — and of the one-woman shows which she devised for herself from this same collection of pieces. ISBN 1 85459 639 X

MAKING SHAKESPEARE — From Stage to Page. Tiffany Stern
Tiffany Stern reveals how London, the theatre, the actors and the way in which the plays were written and printed all affect the "Shakespeare" that we now read. ISBN 0 415 31965 X

MARXIST SHAKESPEARES. Edited by Jean E. Howard and Scott Culter Shershow
This book uses the rich analytic resources of the Marxist tradition to redefine what the study of Shakespeare can mean. The essays collected here reveal that Marxism remains an inescapable challenge to prevailing modes of literary scholarship, essential to addressing issues. ISBN 0 415 20234 5

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM. A User’s Guide. Michael Pennington
Drawing on his wide experience as an actor and director, Michael Pennington take us scene by scene — virtually line by line — through Shakespeare’s much-performed comedy, elucidating what actually happens on stage, what choices are open to performers and what impact those choices will have. ISBN 1 85459 810 4

NEW SITES FOR SHAKESPEARE -— Theatre, The Audience and Asia
John Russell Brown.
On repeated visits to Asia, the author sought out forms of performances that were new to him, and gained a fresh and exciting view of the theatre for which Shakespeare wrote. The author shares these extraordinary journeys of discovery. It pays particular attention to theatre productions in Japan, Korea, China, Bali and India.

THE NORTH FACE OF SHAKESPEARE — Activities for Teaching the Plays. James Stredder. With a foreword by Cicely Berry
This book includes over 200 activities, exercises and games and is divided in two sections. The first presents the case for using active and dramatic methods and then addresses approaches to teaching language, narrative and character in Shakespeare’s plays. The second section focuses on the principles and organisation of practical work and drama workshops. The book will be a valuable resource for teachers of English, Drama and Performance Studies, whether in schools, colleges or universities, and for theatre and drama practitioners whose professional lives include organising and leading workshops. ISBN 0 95474 070 X

NOT SHAKESPEARE — Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century. Richard W. Schoch. HB
Schoch, in the first study of nineteenth-century Shakespeare burlesques, explores the paradox that plays which are manifestly "not Shakespeare" purport to be the most genuinely Shakespearean of all. Bringing together archival research, rare photographs and illustrations, close readings of burlesque scripts, and an awareness of theatrical, literacy and cultural contexts, Schoch changes the way we think about Shakespeare’s theatrical legacy and nineteenth-century popular culture. ISBN 0 521 80015 3

NOVEL SHAKESPEARE — Twentieth-century women novelists and appropriation. Julie Sanders
Much recent contemporary fiction by women has appropriated and adapted themes and plot structures found in Shakespearean drama; Novel Shakespeare is an innovative study of these fascinating texts. International in scope, this study considers novels by authors from as far afield as the UK, USA, Canada, South Africa and Australia, which are set in locations covering the globe. ISBN 0 7190 5816 3

ONCE MORE UNTO THE SPEECH, DEAR FRIENDS. Monologues from Shakespeare’s First Folio with Modern Text Versions for Comparison. Volume One: The Comedies. Compiled and Edited with Commentary by Neil Freeman. ISBN 1 55783 656 6

OTHELLO — A CONTEXTUAL HISTORY. Virginia Mason Vaughan
" Represents a genuinely new way of doing Shakespeare studies; a synthesis of performance and context histories that works only because so intelligently and compellingly historicised. It will be deeply influential." John Gillies, Meridian

THE OXFORD COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE. Edited by Michael Dobson and Stanley Wells.
The most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare’s works, times, life, and afterlives. From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to the misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare’s favourite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, a team of internationally renowned scholars provides a lucid, stimulating, and authoritative guide to Shakespeare’s plays and poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries. ISBN 0 19 280614 9

OXFORD DICTIONARY OF SHAKESPEARE. Stanley Wells
Ideal reference for the student, actor or director, and fascinating browsing for the general reader. Includes passages on Shakespeare by famous authors, from Dr Johnson and Jane Austen to acters aBernard Levin and Virginia Woolf. Provides several appendices, including a chronology, as well as a list of charnd the plays in which they appear. ISBN 0-19-280638-6

OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS — General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells
This series provides students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare criticism and scholarship. Each book is written by an authority in its field, and combines accessible style with original discussion of its subject. Notes and a critical guide to further reading equip the interested reader with the means to broaden research.

Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture. Douglas Lanier.
The author examines how our conceptions of Shakespeare’s works and his cultural status have been profoundly shaped by Shakespeare’s diffuse presence in such popular forms as films, comic books, TV shows, mass-market fiction, children’s books, kitsch, and advertising. ISBN 0 19 818706 8

Shakespeare in the Theatre — An anthology of Criticism. Stanley Wells
This book offers a rich, varied, and wonderfully evocative collection of eye-witness accounts of Shakespearean performances over the centuries.

Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism. Ania Loomba.
This book looks in depth at Othello, The Merchant of Venice, Antony and Cleopatra, The Tempest, and Titus Andronicus, and also shows how racial differences shapes the language and themes of other plays. ISBN 0 19 871174 3

PAINTING SHAKESPEARE. The Artist as Critic, 1720 — 1820 Stuart Sillars
Painting Shakespeare explores the tradition of critical and interpretive painting and engraving that developed when eighteenth-century artists rejected the depiction of Shakespeare’s plays in performance to produce images based on the new scholarly editions. Richly illustrated with over a hundred pictures including a colour plate section, this study provides a complete critical history of Shakespeare painting and engraving in this period HB ISBN 0 521 85308 7

PHILOSOPHICAL SHAKESPEARES. Edited by John J. Joughin
Key philosophical questions concerning value and meaning continue to resonate in Shakespeare’s work. In the course of rethinking these issues, this book actively encourages the growing dissolution of boundaries between literature and philosophy. The approach throughout is interdisciplinary, and ranges from problem-centred readings of particular plays to more general elaborations on the significance of Shakespeare in relation to individual thinkers or philosophical traditions.

PLAYERS OF SHAKESPEARE 5. Edited by Robert Smallwood
This is the fifth volume of essays by actors with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre on their interpretations of major Shakespearean roles. The twelve essays discuss fourteen roles in twelve different productions between 1999 and 2002. ISBN 0-521-67698-3


THE POCKET COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARES PLAYS. J C Trewin, Fully revised by Stanley Wells Foreword by Dame Judi Dench.
The Pocket Companion to Shakespeare’s Plays provides instant reference to every aspect of Shakespeare’s performances and is invaluable to all theatre-goers and students of English literature. ISBN 1-84533-128-1(HB)

A POCKET GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS. Kenneth McLeish and Stephen Unwin
The essential, concise and readable guide to all thirty-eight of Shakespeare’s plays. Includes: an introduction to Shakespeare and his times, a note on the sources, cast lists, a synopsis for each play, main character descriptions and an essay on each play.

THE PRACTICAL SHAKESPEARE. The Plays in Practice and on the Stage. Colin Butler
A clear, easy-to-use, and comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare’s plays,The Practical Shakespeare looks at stagecraft and playwriting as conduits for students, teachers, and general audiences to engage with, understand, and appreciate the genius of Shakespeare. ISBN 0-8214-1622-7

PROLOGUES TO SHAKESPEARE’S THEATRE — Performance and Liminality in Early Modern Drama. Douglas Bruster and Robert Weimann
"This is a clear, authoritative account that expands our understanding of the changing figure if the Prologue in a range of Shakespearean and non-Shakespearean plays; Weimann and Bruster examine thoroughly, and incisively, the theatrical existence of the prologue, and situate it within the wider context of early modern theatre practice." John Drakakis, University of Stirling. ISBN 0 415 33443 8

RACISM, MISOGYNY, AND THE OTHELLO MYTH. Inter-racial Couples from Shakespeare to Spike Lee. Celia R. Daileader. ISBN 0-521-61314-0

RADICAL TRAGEDY — Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and his Contemporaries. Third Edition. Jonathan Dollimore. With a new Foreword by Terry Eagleton.
When it was first published, Radical Tragedy was hailed as a groundbreaking reassessment of the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. It remains a landmark study of that dram and a classic of cultural materialist criticism: an engaged reading of the past with compelling contemporary significance. The third edition of the critically acclaimed book reproduces the original text with the addition of a foreword by Terry Eagleton, and an extensive new Introduction which argues for the continuing relevance of the tragic aesthetic in today’s world. ISBN 1 4039 0478 2

READING SHAKESPEARE’S DRAMATIC LANGUAGE, A GUIDE. Edited by Adamson, Hunter, Magnusson, Thompson and Wales
The rich complexity of Shakespeare’s language is the focus of this accessible volume. Rooted in practical examples, this collection pulls together discussions from the fields of literary criticism, performance and the history of language, focusing on a selection of the more frequently studied Shakespeare texts. ISBN 1-903436 29 X

REGION, RELIGION AND PATRONAGE — Lancastrian Shakespeare. Edited by Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay and Richard Wilson
Region, Religion and Patronage — Lancastrian Shakespeare. explores the network of social, political and spiritual connections in north-west England as the site for regional drama. This groundbreaking book uses the possibility that Shakespeare began his theatrical career in Lancashire to open up a range of new contexts for reading the plays, and introduces readers to the non-metropolitan theatre spaces which formed a vital part of early modern dramatic activity. ISBN 0 7190 6369 8

A ROUTLEDGE LITERARY SOURCEBOOK ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S KING LEAR. — Edited by Grace Loppolo
This examines King Lear within its literary and cultural contexts, bringing together: background information including sources for the play and Shakespeare chronology; an overview of criticism and performance, including extracts from key texts; newly edited and annotated extracts from the play, clearly introduced and linked to contextual and critical materials; a helpful guide to further reading for those wishing to pursue particular issues or debates. ISBN 0 415 23472 7

A ROUTLEDGE LITERARY SOURCEBOOK ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE MERCHANT OF VENICE. Edited by S. P. Cerasano.
The book explores the contexts of the play, including early modern images of Venice, the commercialism of the play, Shakespeare’s theatre and London and images of Jew; samples modern criticism of Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, grouped into sections on The Economic Framework, Choosing and Risking and Shylock and Other Strangers; offers an invaluable discussion of the play in performances, considering crucial staging issues and changing interpretations of the roles of Portia and Shylock; closely examines key passages from the work, providing both commentary and extensively annotated sections of play text; prepares readers for additional study of the play with useful guide to further reading. ISBN 0 415 24052 2

A ROUTLEDGE LITERARY SOURCEBOOK ON WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S OTHELLO. Edited by Andrew Hadfield
This volume provides the contexts of the play, through a concise, accessible overview, a chronology and reprinted documents from the period; the range of critical responses to the play, through a brief critical history and reprinted critical texts, accompanied by explanatory headnotes; the play in performance through a selection of clearly introduced readings on this topic, along with illustrations. ISBN 0 415 22734 8

SECRET SHAKESPEARE — Studies in theatre, religion and resistance. Richard Wilson
Shakespeare’s Catholic context was the most important literary discovery of the last century. No biography and criticism of the Bard is now complete without chapters on the paranoia and persecution in which he was educated, or the treason that engulfed his family. Richard Wilson asks why the dramatist remained so enigmatic about his own beliefs, and so mute on the atrocities he survived. ISBN 0 7190 7025 2

SERVICE AND DEPENDENCY ON SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS. Judith Weil
This is an unusual study of the nature of service and other types of dependency and patronage in Shakespeare’s drama. By considering the close associations of service with childhood or youth, marriage and friendship, Judith Weil sheds new light on social practice and dramatic action. ISBN 0 521 84405 3 (HB)

SHAKESPEARE & CO. Stanley Wells
In Shakespeare & Co., one of the greatest living Shakespeare scholars breaks new ground in an engaging and illuminating study of the lives and careers of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Stanley Wells explores the Elizabethan theatrical scene, looks at the great actors Shakespeare worked with, examines the lives and works of the writers of his day and his later successors such as John Webster. He argues that it is only through remembering and celebrating the sheer richness and variety of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama that we can come to a closer understanding of the shadowy figure of Shakespeare himself. HB ISBN 0 713 99773 7

SHAKESPEARE — David Bevington
In this deft, witty and unpretentiously short book, David Bevington argues that Shakespeare continues to live among us because his representations of the human condition are as relevant today as they were in the Elizabethan era. The book is structured around the "Seven Ages of Man", set out by Jaques in As You Like It. ISBN 0 631 22719 9

SHAKESPEARE AND MODERNISM. Cary DiPietro
Artists and writers in early twentieth-century England engaged in a variety of ways with the cultural traditions of Shakespeare as a means of defining and relating what they understood to be their own unique historical experience. In Shakespeare and Modernism, Cary DiPietro expands upon the established studies of this field by uncovering the connections and contexts which unite a broad range of cultural practices, from theatrical and book production, including that of Edward Gordon Craig, and Harley Granville Barker, to literary constructions of Shakespeare by high modernists such as T S Eliot, James Joyce and Virginia Woolf. HB ISBN 0-521-84539-4

SHAKESPEARE — An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000. Edited by Russ McDonald
This book contains many of the most significant essays and book chapters published on Shakespeare in the second half of the twentieth century. It introduces students of Shakespeare to the Variety of theoretical positions, thematic claims, methodologies, and modes of argument that have contributed to the current critical landscape. ISBN 0 631 23488 8

SHAKESPEARE : An Oxford Guide— Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Orlin
This book provides a practical and stimulating introduction to all aspects of Shakespeare studies, including over 40 specially commissioned essays by an outstanding international team of Shakespeare scholars, with each essay written in a concise, accessible, and engaging style and followed by annotated suggestions for further reading. ISBN 0 19 924522 3

SHAKESPEARE, AUTHORITY, SEXUALITY. Unfinished Business in Cultural Materialism. Alan Sinfield.
Shakespeare, Authority, Sexuality is a powerful reassessment of cultural materialism as a way of understanding the intersections of textuality, history, culture and politics by one of the founding figures of this critical movement. Alan Sinfield examines cultural materialism both as a body of ongoing argument, and as it informs particular works by Shakespeare and his contemporaries. especially in relation to sexuality in early modern England and queer theory. ISBN 0 415 40236 0

SHAKESPEARE 1609: CYMBELINE AND THE SONNETS. Richard Danson Brown and David Johnson
How has Shakespeare been interpreted since his death in 1616? How are we to explain the posthumous fame that surrounds the name "Shakespeare"? This book considers these questions through case studies of two texts that appeared in about1609 — Cymbeline as a play on the London stage, Shakespeare’s Sonnets as a Quarto Volume. ISBN 0 333 913221

SHAKESPEARE — Hamlet. A reader’s guide to essential criticism. Edited by Huw Griffiths
In this guide, Huw Griffiths traces the history of the play’s criticism from the 1660s through to the present day. Readers are provided with substantial excerpts from all the key critical readings — including accounts of the interaction between film versions and critical interpretations. ISBN 1 4039 1136 3

SHAKESPEARE Macbeth. A readers guide to essential criticism. Nicolas Tredell.
In this readers guide, Nicolas Tredell considers the key critical responses to Macbeth from the early seventeenth to the twenty first centuries. He provides concise accounts and assessments of the most vital commentaries and interpretations, setting them in their critical, theoretical and historical contexts. Lively and authoritative, this survey is an invaluable resource for students, teachers and all those who wish to deepen their grasp on the crucial concerns of Macbeth criticism and to engage in the ongoing critical debates about the play. ISBN 1 4039 9925 2

SHAKESPEARE A-Z —Understanding Shakespeare’s Words. George Usher
Shakespeare A-Z gives explanations and references for over 7,000 words used by the Bard, from the familiar to the bizarre. It focuses on the words found in the plays most commonly studies at school and college. ISBN 0 7457 6999 1

SHAKESPEARE & CO. Stanley Wells
In Shakespeare & Co., one of the greatest living Shakespeare scholars breaks new ground in an engaging and illuminating study of the lives and careers of Shakespeare’s contemporaries. Stanley Wells explores the Elizabethan theatrical scene, looks at the great actors Shakespeare worked with, examines the lives and works of the writers of his day and his later successors such as John Webster. He argues that it is only through remembering and celebrating the sheer richness and variety of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama that we can come to a closer understanding of the shadowy figure of Shakespeare himself. HB ISBN 0 713 99773 7

SHAKESPEARE AND JACOBEAN TRAGEDY—Rex Gibson. ISBN 0 521 79562 1

SHAKESPEARE AND LANGUAGE — Edited by Catherine M. S. Alexander
This collection of essays considers the characteristics, excitement and unique qualities of Shakespeare’s language, the relationship between language and event, and the social, theatrical and literary function of language. A new introduction, by Jonathan Hope, explicates the differences between Shakespeare’s language and our own, provides a theoretical and contextual framework for the pieces that follow, and makes transparent an aspect of Shakespeare’s craft (and the critical response to it) that has frequently been opaque. ISBN 0 521 53900 5

SHAKESPEARE AND MARX — Gabriel Egan
Marxist cultural theory underlies much teaching and research in university departments of literature and has played a crucial role in the development of recent theoretical work. Feminism, New Historicism, cultural materialism, postcolonial theory, and queer theory all draw upon ideas about cultural production which can be traced to Marx, and significantly each also has a special relation with Renaissance literary studies. This book explores the past and continuing influence of Marx on interpretations of Shakespeare. ISBN 0 19 924992 X

SHAKESPEARE AND POLITICS — Edited by Catherine M. S. Alexander
This important collection of essays from Shakespeare Survey, the first published in 1975. Shows a full range of writing on Shakespeare and politics with shifts of focus as diverse as biography, text and contexts, language and film, and from perspectives that are literary, historical, religious, theoretical and cultural. A new introductory article by John J. Joughin provides a commentary on the essays, relates them to other work in the field and gives an overview of the subject. The comprehensive collection is a stimulating and provocative introduction to a subject that is complex but never dull. ISBN 0 521 54481 5

SHAKESPEARE AND COMEDY. Arden Critical Companions. R W Maslen
Shakespeare and Comedy traces Shakepeare’s exploration of the precarious status of the comic and the question of comic timing through close examination of eleven of his plays. This illuminating study succeeds in recapturing the sense of danger as well as delight that attached itself to theatrical laughter in Shakespeare’s lifetime. ISBN 1-904271-44-8

SHAKESPEARE AND MUSIC Arden Critical Companions. David Lindley
Music permeates Shakespeare’s plays. This comprehensive study explores the variety of its theatrical functions, situating them in the context of the Early Modern period’s understanding of music. ISBN 1-903436-18-4

SHAKESPEARE AND RENAISSANCE EUROPE. Arden Critical Companions. Edited by Andrew Hadfield and Paul Hammond
This unique collection of essays by leading scholars in the filed is the first of its kind to examine Shakespeare’s representation of Europe and its influence on his writing, providing an original perspective that gives an historical, literary and geographical context for the plays. ISBN 1 904271 46 4

SHAKESPEARE AND RENAISSANCE POLITICS — Andrew Hadfield
This significant new study examines Shakespeare’s drama and poetry as political events and interventions, and explores the literature of the Renaissance and its relation to fundamental political issues. ISBN 1 903436 17 6

SHAKESPEARE AND REPUBLICANISM. Andrew Hadfield.
"This is an exciting and original book, one that focuses attention on the political concerns that deeply preoccupied Shakespeare and his fellow Elizabethans in the early 1590s. It is also engagingly written and stakes out a number of important claims. Hadfield provides a magisterial synthesis of a large and unwieldy critical tradition, in the process of showing what has, for too long, been ignored or mishandled by critics. There is no book like this and it is long overdue". James Shapiro Columbia University. HB ISBN 0 521 81607 6

SHAKESPEARE AND SCOTLAND — Edited by Willy Maley and Andrew Murphy
Shakespeare and Scotland is a timely collection of new essays in which leading scholars on both sides of the Atlantic address a neglected national context for an exemplary body of dramatic work too often viewed within a narrow English milieu or against a broad British backdrop. ISBN 07190 6637 9

SHAKESPEARE AND THE CLASSICS. Edited by Charles Martindale and A.B. Taylor
Shakespeare and the Classics demonstrates that the classics are of central importance in Shakespeare’s plays and in the structure of his imagination. Written by an international team of Shakespeareans and classicists, this book investigates Shakespeare’s classicism and shows how he used a variety of classical books to explore such crucial areas of human experience as love, politics, ethics and history. (HB) ISBN 0 521 82345 5

SHAKESPEARE AND THE FORCE OF MODERN PERFORMANCE — W. B. Worthen
This book asks a central theoretical questions in the study of drama: what is the relationship between the dramatic text and the meaning of performance? The book includes detailed discussions of recent films and stage productions, and sets Shakespeare performance alongside other works of contemporary drama and theatre. ISBN 0 521 00800 X

SHAKESPEARE AND THE HUNT — A Cultural and Social Study. Edward Berry
This is the first book-length study of Shakespeare’s works in relation to the culture of the hunt in Elizabethan and Jacobean society. Situating Shakespeare’s works in this rich cultural context Berry illuminates the plays from fresh angles. He explores, for example, the role of poaching in The Merry Wives of Windsor; the paradox of pastoral hunting in As You Like It; the intertwining of hunting and politics in The Tempest; and the gendered language of falconry in The Taming of the Shrew.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE LOSS OF EDEN. Catherine Belsey
In this book, the author treats Shakespeare’s plays as the location of cultural history rather than as isolated works of art, and uniquely analyses visual and written material side by side, to explore the emergence of family values. ISBN 0 333 80184 9

SHAKESPEARE AND THE NATURE OF WOMEN — Third Edition. Juliet Dusinberre
This is a classic pioneering work in feminist scholarship which claims the agency of Shakespeare’s plays in the reformulation of gender, sexuality and social roles which men and women continue to negotiate in our own time. ISBN 1 4039 1729 9

SHAKESPEARE AND THE PRINCE OF LOVE — The Feast of Misrule in the Middle Temple. Anthony Arlidge
In the course of this book, the author describes in full detail the background of the contemporary legal world, and brings to life the extravagant literary and social milieu of the Elizabethan Inns of Court in all its complexity. This book is written in such a way that it will have a strong appeal to the general reader as well as to Shakespeare enthusiasts, students of English literature and historians, for whom it will be an essential acquisition. ISBN 1 900357 19 4

SHAKESPEARE AND THE POETS’ WAR. James P. Bednarz
In a remarkable piece of detective work, Shakespeare scholar Bednarz traces the Bard’s legendary wit-combats with Ben Johnson to their source during the Poets’ war. The author offers the most thorough reavaluation of the "War of the Theatres" since Harbage’s Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions, revealing a new vision of Shakespeare as a playwright intimately concerned with the production of his plays, the opinions of his rivals, and the impact his works had on their original audiences. Rather than viewing Shakespeare as an anonymous creator, this book re-creates the contentious entertainment industry that fostered his genius when he first began to write at the Globe in 1599.

SHAKESPEARE AND THE VICTORIANS — Adrian Poole
This important new study examines the Victorians’ obsession with Shakespeare, his impact on the era’s consciousness, and the expression of this in their drama, novels and poetry. Other have addresses aspects of the Victorian Shakespeare but Adrian Poole is the first to present such a broad view of what Shakespeare meant to the period as a whole, across the spectrum of artistic and cultural production. ISBN 1 903436 71 0

SHAKESPEARE AND VIOLENCE. R. A. Foakes.
This book connects to current anxieties about the problem of violence, and shows how similar concerns are central in Shakespeare’s plays. ISBN 0 521 52743 0

SHAKESPEARE: AS LITERARY DRAMATIST — Lukas Erne
In this groundbreaking study Lukas Erne argues that Shakespeare, apart from being a playwright who wrote theatrical texts for the stage, was also a literary dramatist who produced reading texts for the page. Examining the evidence from early published playbooks, Erne argues that Shakespeare wrote many of his plays with a readership in mind and that theses literary texts would have been abridged for the stage because they were too long for performance ISBN 0 521 82255 6 HB

SHAKESPEARE, CO-AUTHOR. Brian Vickers
In this wide-ranging study, Brian Vickers sows that every major Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline dramatist collaborated in the writing and staging of their plays. Extending scholarly discussions, Vickers presents compelling evidence that Shakespeare wrote Titus Andronicus together with George Peele, Timonthy of Athens with Thomas Middleton, Pericles with George Wilkins, and Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen with John Fletcher. ISBN 0 19 926916 5

SHAKESPEARE DANCING — A Theatrical Study of the Plays. John Russell Brown
The "Dancing" of the title was in Shakespeare’s mind as he wrote: a physical and active imagination. This book studies its operation in his most frequently performed texts and encourages readers to seek out the performance possibilities of all texts for themselves. ISBN 1 4039 4196 3

SHAKESPEARE FOR BEGINNERS. Brandon Toropov. Illustrated by Joe Lee
The book offers clear, concise descriptions and plot summaries of each play; it lists key phrases and important themes, explains the main ideas behind each work and features excerpts from important passages.

A SHAKESPEARE GLOSSARY. C. T. Onions
A justly famous aid to the study of Shakespeare. Compiled originally by C. T. Onions, one of the editors of the Oxford English Dictionary, it concentrates on elucidating those words whose senses or connotations would be unfamiliar to a modern reader.

THE SHAKESPEARE HANDBOOKS. Alistair McCallum
Each handbook covers a single play, and includes: A complete, straightforward description of the plot; Quotations from the text with explanations of any unfamiliar words or phrases; Some thought-provoking facts and ideas about the play, and a few comments from critics, past and present. Titles include: Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, Macbeth, Merchant of Venice - A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Twelfth Night,Hamlet, The Taming of the Shrew, Richard III.
HENRY V. A Guide to the Text and its Theatrical Life. Kevin Ewert. The Shakespeare Handbooks. General Editor: John Russell Brown
Multiple, competing voices and often structural choices make Henry V an invigorating occasion for theatre. With a fresh and engaging style, this Handbook explores all the spiky, disruptive and debatable aspects of a tale Shakespeare could have told in a simple, straightforward and heroic fashion, but chose not to. ISBN 1 4039 4077 0

SHAKESPEARE IN EDUCATION. Edited by Martin Blocksidge
This collection of essays — written by experienced practitioners — seeks to define, or at least report on, the current position of Shakespeare in schools, colleges and other educational environments. Its primary purpose is to examine how, where and why Shakespeare manifests himself in the educational experience of school and college students today. Contributors: Sue Gregory, Elaine Harris, Joseph Francis, Sean McEvoy, Tiffany Stern, and Catherine Alexander. ISBN 0-8264-8574-X


SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE. — OTHELLO. Lois Potter
Lois Potter traces the play’s acting tradition as it has effected the playing of Othello, Desdemona and Iago. The range of productions discussed here should make this book of interest to all students and enthusiasts of the theatre, as well as making a significant contribution to ethnic and cultural studies of Shakespeare. ISBN 0 7190 2726 8

SHAKESPEARE IN THE PRESENT — Terence Hawkes
Shakespeare in the Present is a stunning collection of essays by Terence Hawkes, which engage with, explain and explore "presentism". Presentism is a critical manoeuvre that uses relevant aspects of the contemporary as a crucial trigger for its investigations. It deliberately begins with the material present and lets that set the interrogative agenda. This book suggests ways in which its principles may be applied to aspects of Shakespeare’s plays. ISBN 0 415 26196 1

SHAKESPEARE IN PRINT — A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing. Andrew Murphy
This is the first-ever comprehensive account of Shakespeare publishing and an indispensable research resource. Andrew Murphy sets out the history of the Shakespeare text from the Renaissance through to the twenty-first century, from the twin perspectives of editing and publishing history. ISBN 0 521 77104 8 (HB)

SHAKESPEARE, LAW, AND MARRIAGE — B. J. Sokol and Mary Sokol
This interdisciplinary study combines legal, historical and literary approaches and applies them to the practice and theory of marriage in Shakespeare’s time. It uses the history of English law and history of the context of law to study a wide range of Shakespeare’s plays and poems. ISBN 0 521 82263 7 (HB)

SHAKESPEARE, NATIONAL POET—PLAYWRIGHT. Patrick Cheney
This is an important new book which reassesses Shakespeare as a poet and dramatist. Patrick Cheney contests critical preoccupation with Shakespeare as "a man of the theatre" by recovering his original standing as an early modern author: he is a working dramatist who composes some of he most extraordinary poems in English. ISBN 0 521 83923 8

THE SHAKESPEARE QUIZ AND PUZZLE BOOK. Maggie Lane
Will appeal to all lovers of Shakespeare with its intriguing blend of crosswords, word search puzzles, name games, quotations and questions.

SHAKESPEARE REMAINS — Theatre to Film. Early modern to Postmodern. Courtney Lehmann
" In Shakespeare Remains Courtney Lehmann moves thoughtfully into the ongoing discussion of Shakespeare’s "afterlife" in postmodern culture. This book is wide-ranging and delightfully clever" — Frances Dolan, Miami University. ISBN 0 8014 8767 6

SHAKESPEARE: TEXT, STAGE AND CANON. Richard Proudfoot
This enjoyable volume from the Senior General Editor of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series aims to give a general and non-specialists audience some sense of what scholarship has achieved in three critical areas of Shakespeare studies at the end of the twentieth century. ISBN 1 903436 11 7

SHAKESPEARE THE BARRIERS REMOVED. In Focus | A Studymates Series. Paul Innes PhD.
Shakespeare is an essential part of all literature courses yet it often causes anxiety for many students. Dr Innes provideschapters on characterisation; genre, setting, structure, performance and history, information that will help you untangle his works. He explains the implications of Shakespeare’s writing and performing techniques as well as describing how criticism has treated him, from liberalism to feminism, from psychoanalysis to materialists. ISBN 1-84285-051-2

SHAKESPEARE. The Basics. 2nd Edition. Sean McEvoy
Sean McEvoy illustrates how interpretations of Shakespeare are linked to cultural and political contexts and provides readings of the most frequently studied plays in the light of contemporary critical thought. Now fully updated to include discussion of criticism and performance in the last five years, a new chapter on Shakespeare on film, and a broader critical approach, this book is the essential resource for all students of Shakespeare. ISBN 0 415 36246 6

SHAKESPEARE THE DIRECTOR’S CUT. Essays on Shakespeare’s plays Volume 1. Michael Bogdanov
"For thirty years Michael Bogdanov has been the most consistently interesting and provocative of British directors of Shakespeare. Now he has written a series of incisive essays on the plays, not comments on his many productions, but introductions to the works that show the result of his long acquaintance with them. The essays, based in social thought and theatrical savvy, make Shakespeare accessible and immediate and will be of interest to a wide range of readers." Dennis Kennedy, Professor of Drama, Trinity College Dublin. ISBN 0 954206 0 2

SHAKESPEARE THE DIRECTOR’S CUT. Volume 2 The Histories. Michael Bogdanov
‘…boy did I enjoy his riffs on the plays. These are not production nor performance notes, and certainly not academic analyses, but rather — what is this play about? Why was it written (other than an urgent need to put paying bums on benches by next Thursday)? He storms us with a blizzard of ideas, more than ever could ever be used in any lifetime’s stagings." The Guardian. ISBN 0 9549625 9 1.

SHAKESPEARE: THE TRAGEDIES. John Russell Brown
This comprehensive and well-informed study is also a work of detection and reappraisal. Each tragedy is given individual attention both as a text and as a play to experience in performance. This enables the reader to follow step by step Shakespeare’s long engagement with this theatrical form, from his early years of experiment until the concluding period of intense and sustained activity. The plays discussed are: Titus Andronicus; Richard III and Richard II; Romeo and Juliet; King John and Henry V; Julius Caesar; Hamlet; Othello; King Lear; Macbeth; Antony and Cleopatra; Coriolanus; Timon of Athens. ISBN 0 333 58957 2

SHAKESPEARE — Three Problem Plays. Nicholas Marsh
All’s Well that Ends Well. Measure for Measure. Troilus and Cressida.
In the first part of this study, Marsh highlights the multiple interpretations these plays provoke and provides useful sections on methods of analysis to encourage readers to develop their views independently. The second part of the book discusses the Problem Plays in relation to the playwright’s other works, and examines their cultural and historical contexts. A comparison of five modern critical views and helpful suggestions for further reading provide a bridge to continuing study. ISBN 0 333 97368 2

SHAKESPEARE’S BAWDY. Eric Partridge
The main body of work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all words and phrases used in a sexual or scatological sense, with full explanations and cross-references. ISBN 0 415 25400 0

SHAKESPEARE’S CLOWN. Actor and text in the Elizabethan playhouse. David Wiles.
This book argues that a professional Elizabethan theatre company always contained one actor known as ‘the clown’. It’s focus is Will Kemp, clown to the Chamberlain’s Men from 1594 to 1599. David Wiles combines textual, theatrical and biographical lines of research in order to map out Kemp’s career. He shows how Shakespeare and other dramatists made use of Kemp’s talents and wrote specific roles as vehicles for him. This book also describes the clown tradition in general, dealing with Kemp’s inheritance from the medieval theatre. ISBN 0-521-67334-8

SHAKESPEARE’S COMEDIES — Edited by Emma Smith
Criticism of Shakespeare’s comedies has shifted from stressing their light-hearted and festive qualities to giving a stronger sense of their dark aspects and their social resonances. The volume introduces the key critical debates under five headings: genre, language, gender
and sexuality, history and politics, and performance. ISBN 0 631 22012 7

SHAKESPEAREAN FANTASY AND POLITICS. Thomas Betteridge
This book is concerned with truths produced in and through an engagement with the writing of Shakespeare. It draws extensively on the critical work of Slavoj Zizek and other contemporary thinkers (including Adorno, Laclau and Copjec) to discover the truths of Shakespeare’s drama and relate to contemporary issues within the discipline of English literature. ISBN 1-902806-39-5 HB

SHAKESPEARE’S GRAMMAR — Jonathan Hope
This book is an invaluable reference guide to Early Modern English, the form of English used by Shakespeare, covering the rules, conventions, and possibilities of choice that make his texts so linguistically rich. ISBN 1 903436 36 2 (HB)

SHAKESPEARE’S HAND — Jonathon Goldberg
Over the past fifteen years, Jonathon Goldberg’s wide-ranging essays have been among the most sophisticated, influential, and controversial writings about Shakespeare. Collected in one volume for the first time, these writings offer a sustained, energetic, and rigorous examination of issues of gender and sexuality that pervade Shakespeare’s plays, as well as a road map of the shifts during the past two decades in our understanding of English literature’s most canonical figure. ISBN 0 8166 4149 8

SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORIES — Edited by Emma Smith
Shakespeare’s history plays, with their insistent depictions of leadership and its discontents, have prompted very different critical views over the past four centuries. This book introduces students to the key critical debates under headings: genre, language, gender and sexuality, history and politics, and performance. The Guide serves both to enhance students’ enjoyment of the history plays and to broaden the reader’s critical repertoire. ISBN 0 631 22008 9

SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORY PLAYS. Edited and Introduced by R. J. C. Watt
This book provides an up-to-date critical anthology representing the best works form each of the modern theoretical perspectives. The introduction outlines the changing debate in an area, which is now, one of the liveliest in Shakespearean criticism. ISBN 0 582 41831 3

SHAKESPEARE’S HISTORY PLAYS. Performance, Translation and Adaptation in Britain and Abroad. Edited Tom Hoenselaars
This volume, with a foreword by Dennis Kennedy, addresses a range of attitudes to Shakespeare’s English history plays in Britain and abroad from the early seventeenth century to the present day. ISBN 0 521 82902 X (HB)

SHAKESPEARE’S HUMANISM. Robin Headlam Wells.
Shakespeare’s Humanism shows that for Shakespeare, as for every other humanist writer in this period, the key to all wise action was "the knowledge of our selves and our human condition". HB ISBN 0 521 82438 9

SHAKESPEARE’S LANGUAGE. Frank Kermode
Kermode writes, "In Shakespeare’s plays, especially after 1600, the secret is in the detail, and we need to understand as much of that as we can." This detailed, witty and illuminating study, on a matter which England’s leading literary critic has been thinking about for much of his professional life, reveals as much of the secret as we have seen for some time.

SHAKESPEARE’S LATE PLAYS —New Readings Edited Jennifer Richards and James Knowles
This new collection reflects a resurgence of interest in Shakespeare’s plays performed between 1608 and 1613: Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale, The Tempest, Henry V111, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Cardenio. It offers a broad range of new, historicist approaches, touching upon key topics in current Shakespearean studies such as kinship relations, manliness, magic, medico-politics, nationalism, rhetoric, schism, sexuality, and staging conventions. The plays are explored both individuality and within generic, thematic and chronological groups.

SHAKESPEARE’S NON—STANDARD ENGLISH.A Dictionary of his Informal Language. Norman Blake.
This dictionary includes all types of non-standard and informal language and lists all examples found in Shakespeare’s works. These include dialect forms, colloquial forms, non-standard and variant forms, fashionable words and puns. ISBN 0 8264 9123 5

SHAKESPEARE’S OVID. The Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems. HB
Ovid’s great poem, the Metamorphoses, was a source of life-long fascination and inspiration for Shakespeare. This book provides a comprehensive examination of his use of Ovid’s poem with contributions from leading international scholars. ISBN 0 521 77192 7

SHAKESPEARE’S PROMISES — William Kerrigan
Oaths, vows, contracts, and promises are among the most momentous actions human beings can perform, in art as well as life. Although virtually ignored by literary theorists, these obligations motive plots, test characters, provide rhetorical occasions, structure ironies, and open thematic horizons. According to William Kerrigan, they had particular importance for Shakespeare, who wrote at a decisive moment in the history of promising, toward the end of its High Christian please and near the beginning of its metaphysically lessened, through still central, role in the "contractual" state. Motivating his plots and supplying his characters with lofty rhetorical occasions, Shakespeare gave promising great dramatic life. Kerrigan’s is the first book to treat this subject with the amplitude it deserves. ISBN 08018 7743 1

SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANCES. Edited by Alison Thorne. Essays by: Janet Adelman, James Ellison, Margaret Healy, David Scott Kastan, Jodi Mikalachki, Ruth Nevo, Constance C. Relihan, Kiernan Ryan, Jyotsna G. Singh.
This offers a selection of the most lively and innovative contemporary criticism on the flur late plays commonly known as Shakespeare’s "Romances": Pericles, Cymbeline, The Winter’s Tale and The Tempest. ISBN 0 333 67975 X

SHAKESPEARE’S ROME — Robert S. Miola
This book studies Shakespeare’s changing vision of Rome in the six works where the city serves as a setting: the narrative poem The Rape of Lucree, the apprentice tragedy Titus Andronicus, the three mature tragedies Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus, and the late romance Cymbeline. The author offers coherent analysis of all the major appearances of Rome in the Shakespeare canon. ISBN 0 521 60701 9

SHAKESPEARE’S SEXUAL LANGUAGE. A Glossary. Gordon Williams
Shakespeare’s use of sexual language, imagery and erotic themes is extensive, varied and although this is necessarily hard to establish, probably innovative at times. This is a comprehensive but concise reference guide to sexual language and imagery in Shakespeare. Entries are cross-referenced and include references to textual examples where possible. ISBN 0 8264 9134 0

SHAKESPEARE’S STAGE CRAFT — J. L. Styan
This is a convenient and comprehensive introduction to the study of Shakespeare’s dramatic craftsmanship, which also reopens that direction of enquiry which Granville-Barker first explored. ISBN 0 521 09435 6

SHAKESPEARE’S STORY TELLERS. Barbara Hardy
The author takes a fresh look at the role of the narrative in the dramatic structure of his plays, and in doing so offers the reader new insights into the playwright’s craft.

SHAKESPEARE’S THEATER. A Sourcebook. Edited by Tanya Pollard
This book brings together in one volume the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the theatre. They include attacks on the stage by moralists, defenses by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. Many of these texts are made widely available here for the first time. ISBN 1 4051 1194 1

SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES — Edited by Emma Smith
Navigating the sea of published commentary on Shakespeare’s tragedies can be difficult. This book guides students through the key critical debates from the sixteenth century to the present day, enhancing their enjoyment and broadening their critical repertoire. The Guide presents fourteen recent critical interventions in the field of Shakespeare. Seven key areas are covered: genre, character, language, gender and sexuality, history and politics, texts and performance. ISBN 0 631 22008 9

SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGEDIES — Violation and Identity. Alexander Leggatt
ISBN 0 521 60863 5

SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGIC SKEPTICISM — Millicent Bell
"Bell offers a distinctly original account of skepticism as a deep part of the poetry. Impact, rhythm, and design of Shakespeare’s major tragedies. For this ultimately a discussion not of ideas but of the power of Shakespeare’s drama. This book will make the complexity and weight of the tragedies newly to those who have spent their lives with Shakespeare." — Michael Goldman, Princeton University ISBN 0 300 09255 5

SHAKESPEARE’S TRIBE — Church, Nation, and Theatre in Renaissance England. Jeffrey Knapp
Most contemporary critics characterize Shakespeare and his tribe of fellow playwrights and players as resolutely secular, interested in religion only as a matter of politics or as rival source of popular entertainment. Yet as Jeffrey Knapp demonstrates in this radical new reading, a surprising number of writers throughout English Renaissance, including Shakespeare himself, represented plays as promoting religious fellowship. Drawing on a variety of little-known as well as celebrated plays, along with a host of other documents from the English Renaissance, Shakespeare’s Tribe changes the way we think about Shakespeare and his cultural world. ISBN 0 226 44570 4

SHAKESPEARE’S TWELFTH NIGHT. Greenwich Exchange Student Guide Literary Series. Matt Simpson
Twelfth Night is for the most part, a genial, sometimes quite hilarious, romantic comedy, which, as Matt Simpson makes clear also has its darker side. Simpson details what he sees as the plays energizing ambivalences, viewing it as a battle of wits against various forms of madness and disorder activated by love or drink. Against them Shakespeare places reason, common sense, providence, true friendship and real love, which in the end are largely made to prevail. ISBN 1 871551 86 2

SHAKESPEARE’S VISUAL THEATRE — Staging the Personified Characters. Frederick Kiefer
In this study of Shakespeare’s visual culture Frederick Kiefer looks at the personified characters created by Shakespeare in his plays — his walking, talking abstractions. These include Rumour in 2 Henry 1V, Time in The Winter’s Tale, Spring and Winter in Love’s Labour’s Lost, Revenge in Titus Andronicus, and deities in the late plays. The book seeks to reconstruct the appearance of Shakespeare’s personified characters; to explain the symbolism of their costumes and props; and to assess the significance of these symbolic characters for the plays in which they appear. ISBN 0 521 82725 6 HB

SHAKESPEARE’S WEBS — Networks of Meaning in Renaissance Drama. Arthur F. Kinney
Drawing upon hypertext and cognitive theory, Arthur F. Kinney unlocks the networks of association at play in Shakespeare’s depictions of Renaissance technologies — namely, mirrors, maps, books, and clocks. Through provocative and thorough readings, Kinney argues that the ways in which these objects make up networks of meaning within a single plays and across the dramatist’s body of work anticipate in some ways the cognitive models of " information" now possible in the computer age. ISBN 0 415 97103 9

SHAKESPEARE AND WOMEN. Phyllis Rackin
This book situates Shakespeare’s representations of women in a variety of historical contexts ranging from the early modern English world in which they were first conceived to the contemporary Western world in which our own encounters with them are staged. In so doing, it also challenges some of the assumptions that currently shape our efforts to understand Shakespeare’s representations of women historically. ISBN 0-19-818694-0

SHAKESPEARE’S WORDS — A Glossary and Language Companion. David Crystal and Ben Crystal. With preface by Stanley Wells
The authors have collected over 14 000 words that can cause difficulty or be ambiguous to the modern reader. Each word is glossed and illustrated by at least one quotation. There are succinct précis of the plays, list of dramatis personnae and a unique diagrammatic circle for each play demonstrating the interaction of characters and their allegiances. ISBN 0 14 029117 2

SHAKESPEAREAN TRAGEDY. A. C. Bradley
Approaching the tragedies as drama, wondering about their characters as he might have wondered about people in novels or in life, Bradley is one of the most liberating in the line of distinguished Shakespeare critics.

SHAKESPEAREAN AFTERLIVES — Ten Characters with a Life of Their Own. John O’Connor. Foreword by Stanley Wells
Shakespearean Afterlives is a cultural biography of Shakespeare’s most famous characters. From Shylock to the Shrew, Richard the Third to Romeo, it charts the many and various existences that these characters have led outside the pages of the First Folio. ISBN 1 84046 643 X

A SHAKESPEARIAN GRAMMAR — An Attempt to Illustrate Some of the Differences Between Elizabethan and Modern English. E. A. Abbott
The finest and fullest guide to the to the peculiarities of Elizabethan syntax, grammar, and prosody, this volume addresses every idiomatic usage found in Shakespeare’s works (with additional references to works of Jonson, Bacon, and others). ISBN 0 486 43135 5

THE SOUL OF ATHENS — Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Jan H. Blits
This book studies Shakespeare’s portrayal of the founding of Athens through a close reading of one of the Bard’s most memorable comedies. ISBN 0 7391 0653 8

THE SOUND OF SHAKESPEARE. Wes Folkerth
The Sound of Shakespeare reveals the surprising extent to which Shakespeare’s art is informed by the various attitudes, beliefs, practices and discourses that pertained to sound and hearing in his culture. ISBN 0 415 25377 2

SPEECH AND PERFORMANCE IN SHAKESPEARE’S SONNETS AND PLAYS. David Schalkwyk
The author offers a sustained reading of Shakespeare’s sonnets in relation to his plays. He addresses such issues as embodiment and silencing, inferiority and theatricality, inequalities of power, status, gender, and desire, both in the published poems and on the stage, and in the context of the early modern period. ISBN 0 521 81115 5

SPIRITUAL SHAKESPEARES. Edited by Ewan Fernie
Spiritual Shakespeares is the first book to explore the scope for reading Shakespeare spiritually in the light of contemporary theory and current world events. Ewan Fernie
Has brought together an exciting cast of critics in order to respond to the "religious turn" in recent thought and to the spiritualised politics of terrorism and the "War on Terror".
ISBN 0-415-31967-6

STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS IN SHAKESPEARE — Lectures and Essays by Harold Jenkins. Edited by Ernst Honigmann
This memorial edition honours the late Harold Jenkins, General Editor of the Arden 2nd Series and editor of the Arden 2 Hamlet, collecting his most valued lectures and essays for the first time in one volume. Many of these are now out of print, or have never been formally published, making this a unique tribute edition. ISBN 1 90343 672 9

STUDYING SHAKESPEARE — A Guide to the Plays. Laurie E. Maguire
Drawing on all of Shakespeare’s plays, Laurie E. Maguire shows how they illustrate
some of life’s most familiar stories — love and obsession, parents and children, sex and politics, suffering and revenge. The book groups the stories into five broad categories, moving from those concerned with personal identity to those dealing with romance and marriage, family life, politics, and public life. The thematic arrangement makes the plays accessible to the widest possible audience, and helps readers grasp the connection between the issues addresses by the plays and those of our own time. ISBN 0 631 22985 X

TEXTUAL SHAKESPEARE — Writing and the Word. Graham Holderness
" Graham Holderness brilliantly explores the inevitable desire for, and the necessary frustration in finding, the Shakespearean original that lies behind the printed texts of his plays. In this unusually alert, sophisticated and lively book, Holderness shows us how the printed plays reflect the complexity of their production, and in the process, he reminds us that writing itself is a central way in which we try to make sense of our world." David Scott Kastan ISBN 1 902806 21 2

THEATRE AND RELIGION — Lancastrian Shakespeare. Edited by Richard Dutton, Alison Findlay and Richard Wilson
This important collection of essays focuses on the place of Roman Catholicism in early modern England, bringing new perspectives to bear on whether Shakespeare himself was a Catholic. ISBN 0 7190 6363 9

A THEATREGOER’S GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE. Robert Thomas Fallon
A Theatregoer’s Guide opens a window to Shakespeare’s time while illuminating the timelessness of his plays. With its intelligent plot breakdowns, and engaging commentary on character, theme, setting, poetry and stage history, A Theatregoer’s Guide to Shakespeare provides a source of pleasure and insight for dedicated theatregoers, students and teachers alike. ISBN 0 7156 3226 4. ISBN 1 56663 570 5 (HB)

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A DANE! — The Lighter Side of Hamlet. Compiled and illustrated by Clive Francis.
An affectionate compilation of mostly funny (but sometimes serious) bits and pieces about Hamlet — interwoven with Clive Francis’ delectable caricatures of various members of the theatrical profession variously strutting their stuff. ISBN 1 86105 459 9

THERE IS NOTHING LIKE A THANE! — The Lighter Side of Macbeth. Compiled and Illustrated by Clive Francis. ISBN 1 86105 458 0
Thane is a hilarious compilation of unintentional funny moments from a variety of productions of Macbeth — interwoven with Francis’s witty charicatures. It also delves into the many superstitions, which have dogged the play since 1603, making it possibly the unluckiest play ever written.

TWELFTH NIGHT— A User’s Guide. Michael Pennington
Drawing both on his inside knowledge as a director of the play and on his lifelong experience as a Shakespearean actor, Michael Pennington takes the reader through Twelfth Night scene by detailed scene. Pennington colourfully recalls the three productions — in three different continents — that he himself has directed.

VISUAL SHAKESPEARE — Essays in Film and Television. Graham Holderness
This volume brings together for the first time a definitive collection of Graham’s Holderness writings on Shakespeare in film and television. Published in books and journals between 1984 and 1998, these celebrated essays constitute a unique resource for the study of Shakespeare in the media. ISBN 1 902806 16 6

THE WHEEL OF FIRE — Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy. G. Wilson Night. With an introductions by T. S. Eliot
Originally published in 1930, this classic modern Shakespeare criticism proves both enlightening and innovative. Standing head and shoulders above all others Shakespearean interpretations, this book is a masterwork of the brilliant English scholar G. Wilson Knight. Founding a new and influential school of Shakespearean criticism, The Wheel of Fire was Knight’s first venture in the field — his writing sparkles with insight and wit, and his analyses are key to contemporary understandings of Shakespeare. ISBN 0 415 25395 0

WHO’S WHO IN SHAKESPEARE — Peter Quennell & Hamish Johnson
Over 1000 comprehensive entries detail every character in Shakespeare’s plays. Analysis of the role and significance of each character, from Othello to Yorick, Macbeth to Titania. Quotations from famous critics. Accessible and easy to use A-Z format. Invaluable reference source for both the students and general reader. ISBN 0 415 26035 3

WILL AND ME. How Shakespeare Took Over My Life. Dominic Dromgoole
Shakespeare has always been part of Dominic Dromgoole’s life.From school plays to adolescent angst, from his love of Stratford to his experiences as a director, the shadowy figure of the Bard has always been there. A poignant, revealing and often bawdy book, by turns soliloquy, tragedy and comedy, Will and Me is a glorious appreciation of how a life can be illuminated through encounters with Shakespeare’s rough and ready genius. HB ISBN 0 713 99831 8

WILL IN THE WORLD — How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Stephen Greenblatt
This acclaimed account of Shakespeare’s life and work recovers and explores the links between the man and his world. It yields a new understanding of his genius and brilliantly makes clear how Shakespeare became Shakespeare. ISBN 0 7126 0098 1

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE — Ian Nichols
This book examines every play and poem, tells what is known of Shakespeare’s life, quotes his great lines, lists the best film versions and points out the most useful texts and websites for you to find out more. ISBN 1 904048 05 6

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S MACBETH. A Sourcebook. Edited by Alexander Leggatt
Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Macbeth and seeking not only a guide to the play but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Shakespeare’s text. ISBN 0-415-23825-0

WORLD-WIDE SHAKESPEARES Local appropriations in film and performance.
Edited by Sonia Massai
World-wide Shakespeares represents a valuable resource for those interested in the afterlife of Shakespeare in film and performance, within and beyond Anglophone cultural centres. ISBN 0-415-32456-4

WORD AGAINST WORD — Shakespearean Utterance. James R Siemon
Word Against Word offers a new approach to Shakespearean drama — in particular Shakespeare’s Richard II — through an extended engagement with the Bakhtinian concept of art as a from of social utterance. The book is the first to explore this central Bakhtinian conception and its associated notions of social accent, dialogism, and heteroglossia in the context of drama and of Shakespeare studies. ISBN 1 55849 354 9 HB

YOUNG PERSON’S GUIDE TO SHAKESPEARE — In Association with the Royal Shakespeare company. With spoken word from the plays on CD. Anita Ganeri
This book reveals the Elizabethan world of William Shakespeare in an exciting combination of words pictures and stirring speeches and drama. Young enthusiasts will learn about his world and his life with an intriguing look at Elizabethan theatre; audience participation, the life of an actor, the demands on a playwright to keep producing new work, and court performances.

PRODUCTIONS, PERFORMING AND REPRESENTATIONS

ACTING SHAKESPEARE — John Gielgud
In this book, John Gielgud brings together his lifetime’s experience of Shakespeare, as both actor and director, and illuminates the work and the man with his characteristic humour and intuitive perception of the rewards offered by these great verse-dramas.

ACTING SHAKESPEARE — For Audition and Examinations. Handbook. — Frank Barrie
A must for anyone auditioning and for students working towards any practical examination in Drama, Speech, Communication or Performing Arts while providing invaluable help to those who wish to use their skills professionally as performers, teachers or communicators. ISBN 1 904557 10 4

ACTING WITH SHAKESPEARE: The Comedies. Janet Suzman
The renowned actress has crafted a superbly concise and clearly written account of how to develop fully realized characters in Shakespeare. Among her observations: "Textual mastery liberates the voice, the actor’s Stradivarius." "Scansion is not to be wrestled with like an enemy, but embraced, like a friend."

ACTORS ON SHAKESPEARE — Series editor Colin Nicholson
This series is to provide a unique and accessible contemporary commentary to each of the plays via the top-class actors who have performed in them.
Antony and Cleopatra — Vanessa Redgrave. ISBN 0 571 21235 2
Henry IV Part I — Simon Callow. ISBN 0 571 21406 1
Henry IV Part II — Simon Callow. ISBN 0 571 21628 5
Henry VI Part I— David Oyelowo. ISBN 0 571 21657 9
Julius Caesar — Corin Redgrave ISBN 0 571 21240 9
Macbeth — Harriet Walter ISBN 0 571 21407 X
A Midsummer Night’s Dream — F. Murray Abraham. ISBN 0 571 21796 6
Much Ado About Nothing — Saskia Reeves. ISBN 0 571 21633 1
Othello — James Earl Jones. ISBN 0 571 21675 7
Twelfth Night — Emma Fielding ISBN 0 571 21402 9

ALL THE WORDS ON STAGE — A Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the plays of William Shakespeare. Louis Scheeder and Shane Ann Younts. ISBN 1 57525 214 7

THE ARDEN SHAKESPEARE. Shakespeare at Stratford.
This is a new series of volumes on Shakespeare’s plays in performance. The series discusses and analyses the wide range of theatrical interpretations stimulated and provoked by the most frequently performed plays. Each volume explores the ways in which different directors, designers and actors have interpreted and adapted an individual play in terms of narrative focus, themes and characters, scenery and costume. Included in the series:
King Richard III. Gillian day
The Merchant of Venice. Miriam Gilbert
The Winter’s Tale. Patricia E. Tatspaugh
Romeo and Juliet — Russell Jackson. ISBN 1 903436 14

AUTHOR’S PEN AND ACTOR’S VOICE — Playing and Writing in Shakespeare’s Theatre. Robert Weimann
This study redefines relationships between writing and playing in Shakespeare’s theatre as marked by difference as well as integration in both the provenance and the production process of early modern stages. In his close readings in Richard III, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Macbeth, Timon of Athens and other plays, the author traces contrariety but also liminality between the imaginary word-in-the-play and the visible, audible playing-in-the-world of the playhouse. Engaging both worlds, Shakespeare’s stage projects verbal and performance practices each to ‘double businessbound’; together they inform his theatre’s most potent impulse then and, the author suggests, now, in our own theatre. ISBN 0 521 78735 1

A CASE FOR SHYLOCK — Around the World with Shakespeare’s Jew. Gareth Armstrong. Foreword by Judi Dench
Gareth Armstrong has travelled the world over with his one-man show about Shylock, from San Francisco to Sri Lanka, from Romania to New Zealand. This is the account of the Gentile actor’s exploration of the most famous of fictional Jews. Frequently hilarious, often provocative, fascinating, revealing and always entertaining. ISBN 1 85459 785 X (HB)

CLAMOROUS VOICES. C. Rutter
Five actresses who have played most of Shakespeare’s leading women at the Royal Shakespeare Company offer their insight into the challenge of performing Shakespeare today. Sinead Cussack, Paola Dionisotti, Fiona Shaw, Juliet Stevenson and Harriet Walker speak about their work together, their relationships with male actors and directors and personal and professional decisions they have made.

CLUES TO ACTING SHAKESPEARE. Wesley Van Tassel
Using examples from Shakespeare’s plays and sonnets, the author tells actors how to break down the verse, support the words, understand the images, and use the text to create vibrant, living performances. The book is conveniently divided into three sections — for actors-in-training, high school drama students and teachers, and professional actors and coaches who need to brush up their skills. ISBN 1 58115 053 9

A CONCISE COMPANION TO SHAKESPEARE ON SCREEN. Edited by Diana E Henderson
The Concise Companion offers readers a variety of access