Reference books
All things Shakespeare : an encyclopedia of
Shakespeare’s world
Olsen, Kirsten
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2002
Globe theatre
Welcome to the Globe
Crisp, Peter
St Leonards, NSW : Dorling Kindersley, 2000
J 792.0942 CRI
R 822.33 SHA/VOL I & II
The Oxford companion to Shakespeare
Dobson, Michael (Ed)
Oxford University Press, 2001
William Shakespeare and the Globe
Aliki
New York : Harpercollins, 1999
J 792.0942 ALI
R 822.33 OXF
Shakespeare in the movies
An Actor’s Guide to performing Shakespeare :
in film, television and theater
Madd, Harold
Los Angeles : Lone Eagle Pub, 2002
792.028
Shakespeare into film
Welsh, James Michael
New York : Checkmark Books, 2002
791.436 WEL
The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare on
film
Jackson, Russell (Ed)
Cambridge University Press, 2000
791.436 CAM
Shakespeare in the movies : from silent era to
Shakespeare in love
Brode, Douglas
Oxford University Press, 2000
The Globe Restored : a study of the Elizabethan
theatre
Hodges, C. Walter
London: O.U.P, 1968
791.437 ROS
Literary
Masters
Series
792.0942 HOD
Useful Websites
Shakespeare online
www.shakespeare-online.com
Absolute Shakespeare
absoluteshakespeare.com
Shakespeare Birthplace trust website
www.shakespeare.org.uk
Shakespeare Resource Centre
www.bardweb.net
Woollahra Library and Information Service
548 New South Head Rd
Double Bay NSW 2028
791.43 BRO
Shakespeare on screen
Rosenthal, Daniel
London : Hamlyn, 2000
Woollahra Library
and
Information Service
Phone: 9391 7100
Fax: 9391 7116
Email: library@woollahra.nsw.gov.au
Website: www.woollahra.nsw.gov.au
September 2007
William
Shakespeare
Shakespeare
A selection of books about life in the time
of Shakespeare
Travelling players in Shakespeare’s England
Keenan, Siobhan
Houndmills, Bassingstoke, Hampshire, 2002
792.022 KEE
A brief biography
William Shakespeare was born in Stratfordupon-Avon on April 23, 1564.
It is surmised by scholars that Shakespeare
attended the free grammar school in Stratford,
which at the time had a reputation to rival
Eton.
The next documented event in Shakespeare's
life is his marriage to Anne Hathaway on
November 28, 1582. William was 18 at the
time, and Anne was 26—and pregnant. Their
first daughter, Susanna, was born on May 26,
1583. The couple later had twins, Hamnet and
Judith, born February 2, 1585.
It is estimated that Shakespeare arrived in
London around 1588 and began to establish
himself as an actor and playwright.
His company was the most successful in
London in his day. He had plays published
and sold in octavo editions, or "penny-copies"
to the more literate of his audiences. His
success allowed him to purchase New House
and retire in comfort to Stratford in 1611.
William Shakespeare wrote his will in 1611,
bequeathing his properties to his daughter
Susanna (married in 1607 to Dr. John Hall).
To his surviving daughter Judith, he left £300,
and to his wife Anne left "my second best
bed." William Shakespeare died on his
birthday, April 23, 1616.
Playgoing in Shakespeare's London
Gurr, Andrew
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University
Press, 2004
792.09421 GUR
The age of Shakespeare
Kermode, Frank
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004
Literary criticism
Shakespeare dancing : a theatrical study of
the plays
Brown, John Russell
Houndmills, Bassingstoke, Hampshire ; New
York : Palgrave/Macmillan, 2004
822.33 BRO
Shakespeare after all
Garber, Marjorie B.
New York : Pantheon Books, 2004
822.33 GAR
Studying Shakespeare : a guide to the plays
Maguire, Laurie E.
Malden, M. A. : Blackwell Pub, 2004
822.33 MAG
822.33 KER
A companion to Shakespeare
Kastan, David Scott (Ed)
Malden, MA : Blackwell, 1999
Shakespeare and comedy
Holland, Peter (Ed)
Cambridge University Press, 2003
822.33D SHA.1/55
822.33D SHA/5
Shakespeare’s England : life in Elizabethan and
Jacobean times
Pritchard, R.E. (Ed)
Stroud : Sutton, 2001
The Cambridge introduction to
Shakespeare's tragedies
Dillon, Janette
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
c2007
942.055 SHA
822.33D SHA/78
Elizabeth’s London : everyday life in
Elizabethan London
Picard, Liza
London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003
Macbeth and its afterlife
Holland, Peter (Ed)
Cambridge University Press, 2004
942.1 PIC
822.33T5 SHA/9