INTRODUCTION:

  1. Historical conditions in England {1558-1610}

 

  1. The Elizabethan theatre {1576-1642}: cultural and social character, construction and dramatic text.

PLAYS:*

Macbeth {1606}. Ed. Kenneth Muir. London: Methuen, 1986. PDF {e-class}

The Tragedy of King Lear (1604-05). Ed. Jay Hallio. The New Cambridge Shakespeare.  Cambridge: CUP, 2005.   PDF  {e-class}

The Tempest (1601). Ed. Virginia Mason Vaughan and Alden T. Vaughan. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2000.   PDF {e-class}

Bibliography:

On Macbeth

William Shakespeare, Macbeth: Texts and Contexts. Ed. William C. Carrol. Bedford: St Martin’s, 1999.

  1. Introduction, 1-21.
  2. The Jacobean Theory of Kingship, 206-220.
  3. Resistance in Theory, 231-236.
  4. George Buchanan, from The Powers of the Crown in Scotland, 242-44.

On The Tragedy of King Lear

 Dollimore, Jonathan. Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power. Brighton, UK: The Harvester Press, 1984. Chapter 12.

On The Tempest:

Barker, Francis and Peter Hulme. “Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: The discursive contexts of The Tempest.”  Alternative Shakespeares. Ed. John Drakakis. London: Routledge, 1996. 190-205.

Brown, Paul. “‘This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine’: The Tempest and the discourse of colonialism.” Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism. Ed. Dollimore, Jonathan and Alan Sinfield. Manchester: Manchester UP, 1994.  48-71.

Further reading:

Alexander, Catherine M. S., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Last Plays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Bevington, David. How to Read a Shakespeare Play. Malden, MA.: Blackwell, 2006.

Callaghan, Dymphna. Shakespeare Without Women. London: Routledge, 2000.

De Grazia, Margreta and Stanley Wells, eds. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: CUP, 2010.

Garber, Marjorie. Shakespeare After All. New York: Anchor, 2004. Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. London: Jonathan Cape, 2004.

Hattaway, Michael, ed. A Companion to English Renaissance and Culture. Malden: Blackwell, 2003. Print.

Kinney, Arthur, ed. A Companion to Renaissance Drama. Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

McDonald, Russ, ed. Shakespeare: An Anthology of Criticism and Theory 1945-2000. Malden, MA.: Blackwell, 2004.

Onions, C. T. A Shakespeare Glossary. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.

Smith, Emma. Shakespeare’s Tragedies. Malden, MA.: Blackwell, 2004.

 

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