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Author

Title

Call #

General and critical overviews
Parker & Hartmann, eds. Shakespeare and the Question of Theory PR2976 .S3373 1985

Wells,

Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide (review contents)

Personal copy

Wells, Stanley, (Ed.)

Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Guide

PR2894.Z9 S5 1990 

Formalist criticism
Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare's Language (NOT on reserve; available through ABC) PR3072 .K47 2000
Wright Shakespeare's Metrical Art (NOT on reserve; available through ABC) PR3085 .W75 1988
Mahood, Molly Shakespeare's wordplay PR2997.P8 M3
Deconstruction

Rabkin, Norman

Shakespeare and the Problem of Meaning

PR2969 .R3 

Textual resources

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Shakespeare: A Textual Companion

PR3071 .W44 1987 

Greg, W.W.

Shakespeare First Folio (1955)

PR2751.A1 G7 

Moston, Doug

Mr. William Shakespeare's comedies, histories & tragedies : a facsimile of the first folio, 1623

PR2751 .A15 1998 

Gender and sexuality criticism
Lenz et al, eds. Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare PR2991 .W6

Adelman, Janet

Suffocating mothers : fantasies of maternal origin in Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet to the Tempest (1992)

PR3065 .A37 1992 

Sedgwick, Eve Between Men: English Literature & Male Homosocial Desire personal copy

Orgel, Stephen

Impersonations : the performance of gender in Shakespeare's England

PR3095 .O74 1996 

Materialist (marxist, political) criticism

Dollimore & Sinfield

Political Shakespeare

PR3017 .P59 1985 

New historicism, post colonialism

Greenblatt, Stephen

Shakespearean Negotiations

PR2976 .G737 1988 

Psychoanalytical criticsm

Adelman, Janet

Suffocating mothers : fantasies of maternal origin in Shakespeare's plays, Hamlet to the Tempest (1992)

PR3065 .A37 1992 

Holland, Norman Psychoanalysis and Shakepeare (Not on reserve-available through ABC express) PR2976 .H55 1976
Performance criticism

Orgel, Stephen

Impersonations : the performance of gender in Shakespeare's England

PR3095 .O74 1996 

Bate, Jackson

Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage

 PR3106 .O94 2001x 

Bulman, James, ed. Shakespeare, Theory, and Performance Personal copy

 

 

 

 
Dr. Mary Adams, instructor
last updated 17-aug-08