Renaissance Drama
Reading List
GENERAL:
Barroll, John L. Artificial Persons: The Formation of Character in the Tragedies of Shakespeare. Columbia: U of
South Carolina P, 1974.
Battenhouse, Roy W. Shakespearean Tragedy: Its Art and its Christian Premises. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1969.
Bruster, Douglas and Robert Weimann. Prologues to Shakespeare’s Theatre: Performance and Liminality in Early
Modern Drama. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Dessen, Alan C. and Leslie Thomson. A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2001.
Erne, Lukas. Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2003.
Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2004.
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The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642. 4th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008.
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The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642. 4th ed. New York: Cambridge UP, 2010.
Gurr, Andrew, and Mariko Ichikawa. Staging in Shakespeare’s Theatres. New York: Oxford UP, 2000.
Hyde, Thomas. “Identity and Acting in Elizabethan Tragedy.” Renaissance Drama, 15 (1984): 93-114.
McJannet, Linda. The Voice of Elizabethan Stage Directions: The Evolution of a Theatrical Code. Newark:
University of Delaware Press, 1999.
Mann, David A. Shakespeare’s Women: Performance and Conception. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2008.
Orgel, Stephen. “Shakespeare Imagines a Theater.” Shakespeare in the Theatre. Ed. Stephen Orgel and Sean
Keilen. New York: Garland, 1999.
Proudfoot, Richard. Shakespeare: Text, Stage and Canon. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2001.
Weimann, Robert. Author’s Pen and Actor’s Voice: Playing and Writing in Shakespeare’s Theatre. Cambridge:
Cambridge UP, 2006.
White, Martin. Renaissance Drama in Action. London: Routledge, 2008.
Whitney, Charles. Early Responses to Renaissance Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006.
HAMLET:
Blits, Jan H. Deadly Thought: "Hamlet" and the Human Soul. USA: Lexington Books, 2001.
Brotton, Jerry. "Ways of Seeing Hamlet." Hamlet: New Critical Essays. Ed. Arthur F. Kinney. New York:
Routledge, 2002.
Chapman, Alison A. “Ophelia’s Old ‘Lauds’: Madness and Hagiography in Hamlet.” Medieval and Renaissance
Drama in England. 20 (2007): 111-135.
Croxford, Leslie. “The Uses of Interpretation in Hamlet.” Alif: Journal of Contemporary Poetics. 24 (2004): 93120.
Davis, Arthur G. Hamlet and the Eternal Problem of Man. New York: St. John’s UP, 1964.
Engle, Lars. “Moral Agency in Hamlet.” Shakespeare Studies. 40 (2012): 87-97.
Fendt, Gene. Is Hamlet a Religious Drama?. Milwaukee: Marquette UP, 1998.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Hamlet in Purgatory. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2001.
Jacobs, Henry E. “Shakespeare, Revenge Tragedy, and the Ideology of the Memento Mori.” Shakespeare Studies.
21 (1993): 96-108.
Knowles, Robert. “Hamlet and Counter-Humanism.” Renaissance Quarterly. 52:4 (Winter 1999): 1046-1069.
Levin, Harry. The Question of Hamlet. New York: Oxford UP, 1959.
Mahood, M.M. “Wordplay in Hamlet.” Discussions of Hamlet. Ed. J. C. Levenson. USA: D. C. Heath & Co.,
1960. 110-113.
Pearlman, E. "Shakespeare at Work: The Invention of the Ghost." Hamlet: New Critical Essays. Ed. Arthur F.
Kinney. New York: Routledge, 2002.
Prosser, Eleanor. Hamlet and Revenge. Stanford: Stanford UP, 1967.
Reading, Bill. "Hamlet's Thing." New Essays on Hamlet. Ed. Mark Thornton Burnett and John Manning. New
York: AMS Press, 1994.