LIT 255/321/421/422/499 and ENGL 612 : Shakespeare: Top Recommendations

A Choice outstanding academic title in 2 volumes: Shakespeare's World, 1500-1660 and The World's Shakespeare, 1660-present. "It aims to replicate the expansive reach of Shakespeare's global reputation. In pursuit of that vision, this work is transhistorical, international, and interdisciplinary. Volume one maps out the physical, social, and imaginative world that Shakespeare and his contemporaries inhabited. Fourteen sections cover fields as varied as the theatre business, science and technology, popular culture, and medicine. For each of the volume's broad subject areas, an overview article is followed by a series of shorter essays taking up particular aspects of the subject at hand. Richly illustrated with more than three hundred images."

Click "View All" at the bottom of the CRITICISM ON THIS AUTHOR box to see tens of thousands of articles. Titles include Shakespeare Quarterly, Renaissance Quarterly, and Theatre Journal.

Find here ~6,000 full-text works of literary criticism from titles such as Shakespearean Criticism, Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin and other journals.

"Shakespeare Quarterly (SQ) is a leading journal in Shakespeare studies, publishing highly original, rigorously researched essays, notes, and book reviews. Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Oxford University Press, SQ is peer-reviewed and extremely selective. The essays in our published pages span the field, including scholarship about new media and early modern race, textual and theater history, ecocritical and posthuman approaches, psychoanalytic and other theories, and archival and historicist work. Our mission, simply put, is to present the best scholarship on Shakespeare from his own period to the present moment." Also available in print, Bound Periodicals (ground floor), call # PR2885 .S63.

"Shakespeare Studies features essays and studies by critics and cultural historians from both hemispheres. Although the journal maintains a focus on the theatrical milieu of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, it is also concerned with Britain's intellectual and cultural connections to the continent, its sociopolitical history, and its place in the emerging globalism of the period. In addition to articles, the journal includes substantial reviews of significant publications dealing with these issues, as well as theoretical studies relevant to scholars of early modern culture." Vols. 1-44 (1965-2009) available in print, General Collection (3rd floor), call # PR2885 .S64.

This monographic serial presents "literary criticism on the plays and poetry of Shakespeare. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including journals, magazines, books, reviews, diaries, newspapers, pamphlets, and scholarly papers. Includes commentary by Shakespeare's contemporaries as well as a full range of views from later centuries, with an emphasis on contemporary analysis. Includes aesthetic criticism, textual criticism, and criticism of Shakespeare in performance. Volumes 1 through 10 present critical overviews of each play and feature criticism from the 17th century to the present. Volumes 11-26 focus on the history of Shakespeare's plays on the stage and in major film adaptations. Volumes 27-56 focus on criticism published after 1960 and include topic entries that deliver thematic approaches to Shakespeare's works. Starting with Vol. 57, the series provides general criticism published since 1990 and historical criticism not featured in previous volumes on four to five plays or works per volume."

"Collects the same versions of the same works found in the Modern Critical Edition, keyed to the same line-numbering. But the Critical Reference Edition emphasizes book history and the documentary origins of each text. It preserves the spelling, punctuation, capitalization, abbreviations, typographical contrasts, ambiguities, and inconsistencies of the early documents."