Shakespeare: The World as Stage

Selected Bibliography

THE FOLLOWING ARE THE principal books referred to in the text.

Baldwin, T. W. William Shakspere’s Small Latine and Lesse Greek (two volumes). Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1944.

Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. London: Picador, 1997.

Bate, Jonathan and Jackson Russell (eds.). Shakespeare: An Illustrated, Stage History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Baugh, Albert C. and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language, (fifth edition). Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002.

Blayney, Peter W. M. The First Folio of Shakespeare. Washington, D.C.: Folger Library Publications, 1991.

Chute, Marchette. Shakespeare of London. New York: E. P. Dutton and, Company, 1949.

Cook, Judith. Shakespeare’s Players. London: Harrap, 1983.

Crystal, David. The Stories of English. London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 2004.

Durning-Lawrence, Sir Edwin. Bacon Is Shakespeare. London: Gay & Hancock, 1910.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became, Shakespeare. New York: W. W. Norton and Co., 2004.

Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London. Cambridge: Cambridge, University Press, 1987.

Habicht, Werner, D. J. Palmer, and Roger Pringle. Images of Shakespeare: Proceedings of the Third Congress of the International Shakespeare, Association. Newark, Del.: University of Delaware Press, 1986.

Hanson, Neil. The Confident Hope of a Miracle: The True History of the, Spanish Armada. London: Doubleday, 2003.

Inwood, Stephen. A History of London. London: Macmillan, 1998.

Jespersen, Otto. Growth and Structure of the English Language (ninth edition). Garden City, N.Y.: 1956.

Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare’s Language. London: Penguin, 2000.

– -. The Age of Shakespeare. New York: Modern Library, 2003.

Kökeritz, Helge. Shakespeare’s Pronunciation. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1953.

Muir, Kenneth. Shakespeare’s Sources: Comedies and Tragedies. London: Methuen and Co., 1957.

Mulryne, J. R., and Margaret Shewring (eds.). Shakepeare’s Globe Rebuilt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Picard, Liza. Shakespeare’s London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London. London: Orion Books, 2003.

Piper, David. O Sweet Mr. Shakespeare I’ll Have His Picture: The Changing, Image of Shakespeare’s Person, 1600-1800. London: National Portrait, Gallery, 1964.

Rosenbaum, Ron. The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascos, Palace Coups. New York: Random House, 2006.

Rowse, A. L. Shakespeare’s Southampton: Patron of Virginia. London: Macmillan, 1965.

Schoenbaum, S. William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1975.

– -. Shakespeare’s Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.

Shapiro, James. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. London: Faber and Faber, 2005.

Spevack, Marvin. The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1973.

Spurgeon, Caroline F. E. Shakespeare’s Imagery and What It Tells Us. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1935.

Starkey, David. Elizabeth: The Struggle for the Throne. London: HarperCollins, 2001.

Thomas, David. Shakespeare in the Public Records. London: HMSO, 1985.

Thurley, Simon. Hampton Court: A Social and Architectural History. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003.

Vendler, Helen. The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press/Harvard University Press, 1999.

Wells, Stanley. Shakespeare for All Time. London: Macmillan, 2002.

– -. Shakespeare & Co: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His, Story. London: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2006.

Wells, Stanley, and Paul Edmondson. Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.

Wells, Stanley, and Gary Taylor (eds.). The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Wolfe, Heather (ed.). “The Pen’s Excellencie”: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington, D.C.: Folger Library Publications, 2002.

Youings, Joyce. Sixteenth-Century England. London: Penguin, 1984.