THEA 623: Theatre History I

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is a comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works.

This 4 volume seet is "a guide to the perplexed" and an aid to an appreciation of Shakespeare's works. Volume I contains an overview of his output and an exploration of the history plays. Volume II explores the comedies. Volume III examines the tragedies and volume IV coveres the romances and poetry. Essays are arranged in chronological order within genres and each is completted by a selective bibliography. Volume IV concludes with a subject index.

This handy guide does indeed have concise entries of plays (with synopses and other factual information) as well as characters of plays, but it is primarily useful as a keyword index to the plays and sonnets. Look up a word and fin its meaning or a quotation in which it is used, along with an identification of the play (or Sonnet), act and scene. Also contained here are appendices concerning Shakepear's Life and Theater, critics, scholars, actors, actresses, directors, producers, 20th century productions, music, a discography, a bibliography and genealogical charts of the English Royal Family.

Part of the "Dictionary of Literary Biography" documentary series, this volume provides illustrations, facsimiles, biographical and critical source material relating to Shakespeare, generally organized chronologically.

This provides full text criticism to the works of Shakespeare. Volumes 1-10 provide an historical overview and critical responses to each Shakespearean work. Volumes 11-26 provide an overview of performance history, both on stage and screen. Volumes numbering 27 on, provide access to criticism published after 1960, with each volume organized around a theme, or annual supplemental volumes containing published essays on Shakespeare during the previous year. A few volumes are available online.

This is a dictionary of words thought to have been originated by Shakespeare, with possible sources, a modern history of the terms and trivia quizzes at the end of each alphabetical section.

As declared in the subtitle, this is a glossary of unfamiliar words in Shakespeare’s plays and poems. Much more in-depth than the Concise Encyclopedic Guide to Shakespeare, listed above, this work provides definitions along with quoted examples and citations in Shakespeare’s work.

This is a good place to begin investigations into the study of everything Shakespeare. This encyclopedia contains entries of each work, and everything having to do with the dramatist. Covered here are biographies, theatre history, printing, publishing, criticism, translation, and etc.. A listing of thematic entries and plays is found toward the front of the print book, which substitutes for an index.

This concise, illustrated dictionary of Shakespeariana, provides ready access to a mass of material concerning Shakespeare and his cultural heritage in Britain and overseas. Alphabetically arranged entries guide the reader to a wealth of information on Shakespeare's life and times, on the sources and early publication of his works, on their performance history on stage and screen, on actors and writers especially associated with them, on operas and other musical works deriving from them, on theatres, editions, international Shakespeare organizations - in short, on all aspects of Shakespearian interest.

This pronunciation guide to proper names found in Shakespeare’s works also contains Elizabethan pronunciation if different from that currently heard.

This guidebook to the characters in Shakespeare’s works contains entries summarizing characters, explaining function in the play, and in the case of important characters, containing commentary from famous early critics.

This volume looks at more than proper names. Also find here entries of official titles, literary titles, musical titles, and place names contained in Shakespeare’s plays or poems. Entries contain brief descriptions and pertinent historical background information along with line citations based on the Wells and Taylor edition (PR2754.W45 1986b).

This indexes words, phrases and passages in the plays of Shakespeare from the text of the Globe edition of Shakespeare, prepared by John Bartlett. Each entry provides a citation for the play, act and scene in which the entry occurred.

This handy guide to works, characters, performers and other historic persons, provides terse entries for quick reference. Also contained here is a short biography of Shakespeare and an essay on theatre production during the time of Shakespeare.

This work examines and describes, in great detail, the 232 known copies of Shakespeare's First Folio, published in 1623.