Shakespeare
THE READING ROOM
YOUNG ACTORS AND THEIR TEACHERS
Ackroyd, Peter. Shakespeare: The Biography. New York: Nan A.
Talese/Doubleday, 2005.
Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Shakespeare. New York: Harcourt Brace
Jovanovitch, 1974.
Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. London: Picador, 1977.
Beard, Jocelyn, ed. 100 Great Monologues from the Renaissance Theater.
Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 1994.
Bentley, Gerald E. Shakespeare ’s Life: A Biographical Handbook. New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1961.
Brine, Adrian and Michael York. A Shakespearian Actor Prepares. Lyme,
N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 2000.
Burgess, Anthony. Shakespeare. London: Jonathan Cape, 1970.
Chute, Marchette. Shakespeare of London. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1949.
Clark, Cumberland. The Eternal Shakespeare. London: Williams and Norgate, 1930.
Cohen, Robert. Acting in Shakespeare . Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 2005.
Duncan-Jones, Katherine. Ungentle Shakespeare: Scenes from His Life.
London: Arden Shakespeare, 2001.
Fox, Levi, ed. The Shakespeare Handbook. Boston: Hall, 1987.
Fraser, Russell A. Young Shakespeare. New York: Columbia University
Press, 1988.
Frye, Roland Mushat. Shakespeare ’s Life and Times: A Pictorial Record.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1967.
Harrison, G. B. Introducing Shakespeare. 3rd ed. London: Penguin Books, 1991.
Holden, Anthony. William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius.
Boston: Little, Brown, 1999.
Honan, Park. Shakespeare: A Life. Oxford, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998.
Hyland, Peter. An Introduction to Shakespeare: The Dramatist in His Context.
Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan, 1996.
Levi, Peter. The Life and Times of William Shakespeare. London: Macmillan, 1988.
Lloyd Evans, Gareth, and Barbara. The Shakespeare Companion. New
York: Scribners, 1978.
Olster, Fredi and Rick Hamilton. Discovering Shakespeare: A Midsummer
Night’s Dream: A Workbook for Students. Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 1996.
____________. Discovering Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet: A
Workbook for Students. Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 1996.
____________. Discovering Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew: A
Workbook for Students. Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 1997.
____________. Discovering Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing: A
Workbook for Students. Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 1998.
____________. Discovering Shakespeare: Macbeth: A Workbook for
Students. Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 2000.
____________. Shakespeare Alive! 2-Minute Speeches and Monologues for
Study, Audition, and Performance. Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 2004.
Quennell, Peter. Shakespeare, the Poet and His Background. London: Weidenfeld
and Nicolson, 1963.
Reese, M. M. Shakespeare: His World and His Work. London: Edward
Arnold, 1953.
Saccio, Peter. Shakespeare’s English Kings. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University
Press, 2000.
Scheeder, Louis and Shane Ann Younts. All the Words on Stage: A Complete
Pronunciation Dictionary for the Plays of William Shakespeare.
Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 2002.
Somerset, Anne. Elizabeth I. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
Speaight, Robert. Shakespeare, the Man and His Achievement. London:
J. M. Dent, 1977.
Timmerman, Diane. 90-Minute Theater: A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 2001.
____________. 90-Minute Theater: Romeo and Juliet. Lyme, N.H.: Smith
and Kraus, 2001.
Weinstein, Elizabeth. Shakespeare with Children: Six Scripts for Young
Players. Lyme, N.H.: Smith and Kraus, 2008.
Wood, Michael. In Search of Shakespeare. London: BBC, 2003.
SCHOLARS, STUDENTS, PROFESSORS
Baker, Oliver. In Shakespeare’s Warwickshire and the Unknown Years.
London: S. Marshall, 1937.
Barroll, J. Leeds. Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare’s Theater: The Stuart
Years. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1991.
Cavell, Stanley. Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Play, 1987.
Cohen, Derek. Shakespeare’s Culture of Violence. London: Macmillan, 1987.
Calderwood, James. Shakespeare and the Denial of Death. Amherst,
Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1987.
de Grazia, Margreta, and Stanley Wells, eds. The Cambridge Companion to
Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Dollimore, Jonathan. Radical Tragedy. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1984.
____________ and Alan Sinfield, eds. Political Shakespeare: New Essays in-
Cultural Materialism. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1985.
Drakakis, John, ed. Alternative Shakespeares. London: Methuen, 1985.
Frye, Northrop. A Natural Perspective: The Development of Shakespearean
Comedy and Romance. San Diego: Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1965.
____________. Northrop Frye on Shakespeare. Ed. by Robert Sandler. New
Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1986.
Honigmann, E. A. J. Shakespeare: The “Lost Years.” Manchester: Manchester
University Press, 1985.
Garber, Marjorie. Shakespeare After All. New York: Pantheon, 2004.
Hotson, Leslie. Mr. W. H. London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1964.
Hunt, Margaret R. The Middling Sort: Commerce, Gender, and the Family
in England, 1680–1780. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996.
Kahn, Coppelia. Man’s Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1981.
Kaston, David Scott. Shakespeare After Theory. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Kernan, Alvin B., ed. Modern Shakespearean Criticism. San Francisco:
Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1970.
Knight, William Nicholas. Shakespeare’s Hidden Life: Shakespeare at the
Law, 1585–1595. New York: Mason and Lipscomb, 1973.
Lewis, B. Roland. The Shakespeare Documents, Facsimiles, Transliterations,
Translations and Commentary, 2 vols. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 1940.
Matus, Irvin Leigh. Shakespeare: The Living Record. New York: St. Martin’s
Press, 1991.
McDonald, Russ. Shakespeare and Jonson, Jonson and Shakespeare. Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press, 1988.
Muir, Kenneth. Shakespeare’s Sources. London: Methuen, 1957.
Nuttall, A. D. Shakespeare the Thinker. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University
Press, 2007.
Plimpton, George Arthur. The Education of Shakespeare Illustrated from
the Schoolbooks in Use in His Time. London, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1933.
Sams, Eric. The Real Shakespeare: Retrieving the Early Years, 1564– 1594.
New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995.
Schmidgall, Gary. Shakespeare and the Poet’s Life. Lexington: University
Press of Kentucky, 1990.
Schoenbaum, S. Shakespeare’s Lives. New York: Oxford University Press, 1970.
____________. William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1975.
____________. William Shakespeare: Records and Images. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1981.
Thorndike, Arthur Russell. In the Steps of Shakespeare. London, New York:
Rich and Cowan, 1948.
Vickers, Brian. Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage. 6 vols. London: Routledge
and K. Paul, 1974–81.
THEATER, PRODUCERS
Aubrey, John. Brief Lives: A Selection Based on Existing Contemporary
Portraits. Ed. by Richard Barber. London: The Folio Society, 1975.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World. New York: W. W. Norton, 2004.
Mingay, George E.. The Gentry: The Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class. London:
Longman, 1976.
Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare’s Bawdy. Revised ed. London: Routledge and
Kegan Paul, 1955.
Seccombe, Thomas and J.W. Allen. The Age of Shakespeare (1579–1631).
2 vols. London: G. Bell, 1903.
Shapiro, James. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599. New
York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Sheavyn, Phoebe Anne. The Literature Profession in the Elizabethan Age.
2nd ed. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1967.
Southworth, John. Shakespeare, the Player: A Life in the Theatre. Stroud,
Gloucestershire: Sutton, 2000.
Thompson, Peter. Shakespeare ’s Professional Career. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1992.
ACTORS, DIRECTORS, THEATER PROFESSIONALS
Barber, C. L. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton
University Press, 1959.
Bate, Jonathan, and Russell Jackson. Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage
History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Bryson, Bill. Shakespeare: The World as Stage. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Bullough, Geoffrey. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1957–75.
Chambers, E.K. The Medieval Stage. 2 vols. London: Oxford University
Press, 1903.
____________. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1951.
Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London. 2nd ed. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Gurr, Andrew, and Ichikawa Mariko. Staging in Shakespeare ’s Theatres.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000.
Halliday, F. E. Shakespeare: A Pictorial Biography. London: Clarke and
Sherwell Ltd., 1956.
____________. A Shakespeare Companion, 1564–1964. Harmondsworth:
Penguin Books, 1964.
Hattaway, Michael. Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1982.
Honigmann, E. A. J. and Susan Brock, eds. Playhouse Wills 1558–1642:
An Edition of Wills by Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in the London
Theatre. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1993.
Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare’s Language. New York: Penguin, 2000.
____________. The Age of Shakespeare. New York: Modern Library, 2004.
Parsons, Keith and Pamela Mason, eds. Shakespeare in Performance. London:
Salamander Books Ltd, 1995.
Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sidney Lee, and C. T. Onions. Shakespeare’s
England; an Account of the Life and Manners of His Age.2 vols. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1916.
Schoenbaum, S. William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. New
York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Styan, J. L. Shakespeare’s Stagecraft. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1971.
Wells, Stanley W. Shakespeare, a Dramatic Life. London: Sinclair- Stevenson, 1994.
____________. A Dictionary of Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1998.
Wells, Stanley W. and Gary Taylor. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
THE EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE’S WORKS
USED FOR THIS BOOK
The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. Ed. by Richard Proudfoot, Ann
Thompson, and David Scott Kastan. London: Arden Shakespeare /
Thompson Learning, 2001, 2007.
The Complete Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. by Stanley Wells, Gary Taylor, John
Jowett, and William Montgomery. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
SOURCES CITED IN THIS BOOK
Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York:
Riverhead, 1998.
Greene, Robert. Groats-Worth of Witte, Bought with a Million of Repentance.
The Repentance of Robert Greene, 1592. Edinburgh: Edinburgh
University Press, 1966.
Meres, Francis. Palladis Tamia. New York: Scholars’ Facsimiles and Reprints, 2000.
Wilson, J. Dover. The Essential Shakespeare: A Biographical Adventure.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932.
WEB SITES
Royal Shakespeare Company: www.rsc.org
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: www.shakespeare.org.uk
Shakespeare’s Globe: www.shakespeares-globe.org
The Shakespeare Theatre (Washington, D.C.): www.shakespeare.org