Holinshed, Raphael, Hosley, Richard. Shakespeare's Holinshed ::an edition of Holinshed's Chronicles, 1587; sources of Shakespeare's history plays, King Lear, Cymbeline, and Macbeth / New York :, Putnam, 1996-07-26T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/53917 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/53917 Text Vigne, Randolph. Littleton, Charles. From strangers to citizens ::the integration of immigrant communities in Britain, Ireland, and colonial America, 1550-1750 / London :, Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland ;, Brighton ;, Portland, Or. :, Sussex Academic Press, 2002-01-30T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/118641 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/118641 Text Whyte, Ian Migration and society in Britain ::1550-1830 / New York :, St. Martin's Press, 2000-09-11T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/113256 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/113256 Text Daileader, Celia R., Eroticism on the Renaissance stage ::transcendence, desire, and the limits of the visible / Cambridge, U.K. ;, New York, NY :, Cambridge University Press, 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/104583 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/104583 Text Thirsk, Joan. The English rural landscape / Oxford ;, New York :, Oxford University Press, 2000-08-03T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/112926 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/112926 Text Traub, Valerie, The Oxford handbook of Shakespeare and embodiment ::gender, sexuality, and race / "This book brings together 40 of the most important scholars and intellectuals writing on the subject today. Extending the purview of feminist criticism, it offers an intersectional paradigm for considering representations of gender in the context of race, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, and religion. In addition to sophisticated textual analysis drawing on the methods of historicism, psychoanalysis, queer theory, and posthumanism, a team of international experts discuss Shakespeare's life, contemporary editing practices, and performance of his plays on stage, on screen, and in the classroom. This theoretically sophisticated yet elegantly written Handbook includes an editor's Introduction that provides a comprehensive overview of current debates."-- 2016-11-15T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/348719 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/348719 Text Romig, Edna Davis, "As you like it" ::Shakespeare's use of his source, Lodge's "Rosalynde" / Boulder, CO, 1996-07-26T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/11773 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/11773 Text Shakespeare, William, Marcus, Leah S. As you like it ::authoritative text, sources and contexts, criticism / New York :, W. W. Norton & Co., 2012-01-27T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/263961 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/263961 Text Thirlwell, Angela, Rosalind ::Shakespeare's immortal heroine / The author explores the character's perennial influence on drama, fiction, and art. Includes interviews with Juliet Rylance, Sally Scott, Janet Suzman, Juliet Stevenson, Michelle Terry, and Blanche McIntyre, as well as insights from Michael Attenborough, Kenneth Branagh, Greg Doran, Rebecca Hall, Adrian Lester, Pippa Nixon, Vanessa Redgrave, and Fiona Shaw. 2017-04-04T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/351518 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/351518 Text Blanchard, E. L. Stanley, Emma, Programme and words of the songs of The seven ages of woman ::a new lyric entertainment / [New York] :, [W. Corbyn], 1996-07-26T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/8471 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/8471 Text Miller, Carl, Stages of desire ::gay theatre's hidden history / London ;, New York :, Cassell, 1997-04-10T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/95738 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/95738 Text Marcus, Leah S. How Shakespeare became colonial ::editorial traditions and the British Empire / In this fascinating book, Leah Marcus argues that the colonial context in which Shakespeare was edited and disseminated during the heyday of British empire has left a mark on Shakespeare's texts to the present day. Shakespeare was presented as exemplary of British genius and those who edited and shaped the texts were very aware of the potential political and cultural impact this could have. Marcus traces important ways in which the colonial enterprise of setting forth the best possible Shakespeare for world consumption has continued to be visible in the recent treatment of Shakespeare's texts today, despite our belief that we are global or post-colonial in approach. 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/351948 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/351948 Text Cieślak, Magdalena, Screening gender in Shakespeare's comedies ::film and television adaptations in the twenty-first century / 2019-06-14T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/356992 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/356992 Text Lewis, Cynthia, "The game's afoot" ::a sports lover's introduction to Shakespeare / "Like the Montagues and Capulets, the rivalry between the Boston Celtics and the LA Lakers makes for great drama. Exploring parallels between Shakespeare's plays and famous events in the world of sports, this book introduces seven of the best-known plays to the sports enthusiast and offers a fresh perspective to Shakespeare devotees."-- 2018-08-03T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/354747 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/354747 Text Stanivukovic, Goran V., Queer Shakespeare ::desire and sexuality / Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality draws together 13 essays, which offer a major reassessment of the criticism of desire, body and sexuality in Shakespeare's drama and poetry. Bringing together some of the most prominent critics working at the intersection of Shakespeare criticism and queer theory, this collection demonstrates the vibrancy of queer Shakespeare studies. Taken together, these essays explore embodiment, desire, sexuality and gender as key objects of analyses, producing concepts and ideas that draw critical energy from focused studies of time, language and nature. The Afterword extends these inquiries by linking the Anthropocene and queer ecology with Shakespeare criticism. Works from Shakespeare's entire canon feature in essays which explore topics like glass, love, antitheatrical homophobia, size, narrative, sound, female same-sex desire and Petrarchism, weather, usury and sodomy, male femininity and male-to-female crossdressing, contagion, and antisocial procreation. 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/352453 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/352453 Text Bach, Rebecca Ann. Kennedy, Gwynne, Rackin, Phyllis. Feminisms and early modern texts ::essays for Phyllis Rackin / Selinsgrove, Pa. :, Susquehanna University Press, 2010-11-09T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/235487 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/235487 Text Elden, Stuart, Shakespearean territories / Shakespeare was an astute observer of contemporary life, culture, and politics. The emerging practice of territory as a political concept and technology did not elude his attention. In Shakespearean Territories, Stuart Elden reveals just how much Shakespeare's unique historical position and political understanding can teach us about territory. Shakespeare dramatized a world of technological advances in measuring, navigation, cartography, and surveying, and his plays open up important ways of thinking about strategy, economy, the law, and colonialism, providing critical insight into a significant juncture in history. Shakespeare's plays explore many territorial themes: from the division of the kingdom in King Lear, to the relations among Denmark, Norway, and Poland in Hamlet, to questions of disputed land and the politics of banishment in Richard II. Elden traces how Shakespeare developed a nuanced understanding of the complicated concept and practice of territory and, more broadly, the political-geographical relations between people, power, and place. A meticulously researched study of over a dozen classic plays, Shakespearean Territories will provide new insights for geographers, political theorists, and Shakespearean scholars alike. 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/356152 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/356152 Text Schalkwyk, David, Shakespeare, love and language / 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/354111 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/354111 Text Young, David, The heart's forest ;:a study of Shakespeare's pastoral plays / New Haven :, Yale University Press, 1996-07-26T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/56369 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/56369 Text Kolentsis, Alysia, Shakespeare's common language / What can developments in contemporary linguistics and language theory reveal about Shakespeare's language in the plays? Shakespeare's Common Language demonstrates how methods borrowed from language criticism can illuminate the surprising expressive force of Shakespeare's common words. With chapters focused on different approaches based in language theory, the book analyses language change in Coriolanus; discourse analysis in Troilus and Cressida; pragmatics in Richard II; and various aspects of grammar in As You Like It. In mapping the tools of linguistics and language theory onto the study of literature, and employing finely-grained close readings of dialogue, Shakespeare's Common Language frames a methodology that offers a fresh approach to reading dramatic language. 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544400 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544400 Text MacFaul, Tom, Shakespeare and the natural world / "Exploring the rich range of meanings that Shakespeare finds in the natural world, this book fuses ecocritical approaches to Renaissance literature with recent thinking about the significance of religion in Shakespeare's plays. MacFaul offers a clear introduction to some of the key problems in Renaissance natural philosophy and their relationship to Reformation theology, with individual chapters focusing on the role of animals in Shakespeare's universe, the representation of rural life, and the way in which humans' consumption of natural materials transforms their destinies. These discussions enable powerful new readings of Shakespeare's plays, including A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, King Lear, Macbeth, The Tempest, The Winter's Tale, and the history plays. Proposing that Shakespeare's representation of the relationship between man and nature anticipated that of the Romantics, this volume will interest scholars of Shakespeare studies, Renaissance drama and literature, and ecocritical studies of Shakespeare"-- 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/344731 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/344731 Text Theis, Jeffrey S., Writing the forest in early modern England ::a sylvan pastoral nation / Pittsburgh, Pa. :, Duquesne University Press, "An ecocritical study of forests in early modern English literature, this book is the first to identify 'sylvan pastoral' as a distinct literary form and thus makes an important contribution to the growing field of ecocriticism and the history of environmentalism"--Provided by publisher. 2010-04-15T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/232267 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/232267 Text Porteous, Alexander, Forest folklore, mythology, and romance / Detroit :, Singing Tree Press, 1996-07-26T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/1743 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/1743 Text Dobski, Bernard J., Gish, Dustin A., Souls with longing ::representations of honor and love in Shakespeare / Lanham, Md. :, Lexington Books, "Souls with Longing focuses on representations of honor and love in the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare. The contributors to this collaborative volume reveal how Shakespeare's representations of the longing for and pursuit of honor and love in his characters teach us about who we are, what we desire, and why. Shakespeare's works thus vividly represent a grand pageant of souls with longing which holds sway over our political, moral, and romantic imaginations"--Provided by publisher. 2012-01-27T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/263992 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/263992 Text Pye, Christopher, The storm at sea ::political aesthetics in the time of Shakespeare / "The Storm at Sea: Political Aesthetics in the Time of Shakespeare counters a tradition of cultural analysis that judges considerations of aesthetic autonomy in the early modern context to be either anachronistic or an index of political disengagement. Pye argues that for a post-theocratic era in which the mise-en-forme of the social domain itself was for the first time at stake, the problem of the aesthetic lay at the very core of the political; it is precisely through its engagement with the question of aesthetic autonomy that early modern works most profoundly explore their relation to matters of law, state, sovereignty, and political subjectivity. Pye establishes the significance of a "creationist" political aesthetic-at once a discrete historical category and a phenomenon that troubles our familiar forms of historical accounting-and suggests that the fate of such an aesthetic is intimately bound up with the emergence of modern conceptions of the political sphere. The Storm at Sea moves historically from Leonardo da Vinci to Thomas Hobbes; it focuses on Shakespeare and English drama, with chapters on Hamlet, Othello, A Winter's Tale, and The Tempest, as well as sustained readings of As You Like It, King Lear, Thomas Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, and Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus. Engaging political thinkers such as Carl Schmitt, Giorgio Agamben, Claude Lefort, and Roberto Esposito, The Storm at Sea will be of interest to political theorists as well as to students of literary and visual theory"-- 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/340725 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/340725 Text Herbert, Amanda E., Female alliances ::gender, identity, and friendship in early modern Britain / "In the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, cultural, economic, and political changes, as well as increased geographic mobility, placed strains upon British society. But by cultivating friendships and alliances, women worked to socially cohere Britain and its colonies. In the first book-length historical study of female friendship and alliance for the early modern period, Amanda Herbert draws on a series of interlocking microhistorical studies to demonstrate the vitality and importance of bonds formed between British women in the long eighteenth century. She shows that while these alliances were central to women's lives, they were also instrumental in building the British Atlantic world"-- 2014-02-03T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/336245 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/336245 Text Dowd, Michelle M., The dynamics of inheritance on the Shakespearean stage / "Early modern England's system of patrilineal inheritance, in which the eldest son inherited his father's estate and title, was one of the most significant forces affecting social order in the period. Demonstrating that early modern theatre played a unique and vital role in shaping how inheritance was understood, Michelle M. Dowd explores some of the common contingencies that troubled this system: marriage and remarriage, misbehaving male heirs, and families with only daughters. Shakespearean drama helped question and reimagine inheritance practices, making room for new formulations of gendered authority, family structure, and wealth transfer. Through close readings of canonical and non-canonical plays by Shakespeare, Webster, Jonson, and others, Dowd pays particular attention to the significance of space in early modern inheritance and the historical relationship between dramatic form and the patrilineal economy. Her book will interest researchers and students of early modern drama, Shakespeare, gender studies, and socio-economic history"-- 2015-08-24T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/342177 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/342177 Text Budiansky, Stephen, Her majesty's spymaster ::Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the birth of modern espionage / New York :, Viking Penguin, 2005-09-30T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/191611 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/191611 Text Cooper, J. P. D. The Queen's agent ::Francis Walsingham at the Court of Elizabeth I / London :, Faber and Faber, The definitive book about Francis Walsingham, the first great English spymaster and the man who saved Elizabeth's regime and England's independence. Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth's Secretary, Francis Walsingham, was prepared to do whatever it took to protect her. He ran a network of agents in England and Europe who provided him with information about invasions or assassination plots. He recruited likely young men and 'turned' others. He encouraged Elizabeth to make war against the Catholic Irish rebels, with extreme brutality and oversaw the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. The Queen's Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened English state. 2012-03-15T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/264343 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/264343 Text Archer, John Michael, Sovereignty and intelligence ::spying and court culture in the English Renaissance / Stanford, Calif. :, Stanford University Press, 1996-07-26T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/67303 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/67303 Text Maley, Willy, Loughnane, Rory, Celtic Shakespeare ::the bard and the borderers / 2013-12-03T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/335668 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/335668 Text Menon, Madhavi. Shakesqueer ::a queer companion to the complete works of Shakespeare / Durham [N.C.] :, Duke University Press, 2011-05-26T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/245564 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/245564 Text Blake, Erin C., As you like it ::ephemera at the Folger Shakespeare Library / 2012-04-23T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/265021 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/265021 Text eng Kott, Jan, The gender of Rosalind ::interpretations : Shakespeare, Büchner, Gautier / Evanston, Ill. :, Northwestern University Press, 1996-07-26T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/60490 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/60490 Text Chess, Simone, Male-to-female crossdressing in early modern English literature ::gender, performance, and queer relations / 2016-06-01T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/346802 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/346802 Text Yang, Sharon R., Goddesses, mages, and wise women ::the female pastoral guide in sixteenth and seventeenth-century English drama / Selinsgrove, PA :, Susquehanna University Press, 2011-11-02T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/263200 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/263200 Text Bailey, Courtney Spectrums of Shakespearean crossdressing ::the art of performing women / 2020-01-31T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/540825 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/540825 Text Thompson, Ayanna, The Cambridge companion to Shakespeare and race / "The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race shows teachers and students how and why Shakespeare and race are inseparable. Moving well beyond Othello, the collection invites the reader to understand racialized discourses, rhetoric, and performances in all of Shakespeare's plays, including the comedies and histories. Race is presented through an intersectional approach with chapters that focus on the concepts of sexuality, lineage, nationality, and globalization. The collection helps students to grapple with the unique role performance plays in constructions of race by Shakespeare (and in Shakespearean performances), considering both historical and contemporary actors and directors. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race will be the first book that truly frames Shakespeare studies and early modern race studies for a nonspecialist, student audience"-- 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544526 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544526 Text Thompson, Ayanna, Colorblind Shakespeare ::new perspectives on race and performance / New York :, Routledge, 2006-10-26T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/195984 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/195984 Text Heijes, Coen, Shakespeare, blackface and race ::different perspectives / This Element addresses the topical debate on blackface, race and Othello. With Shakespeare performance studies being rather Anglo-centric, the author explores how this debate has taken a radically different course in the Netherlands, a country historically perceived as tolerant and culturally close to the UK. Through several case studies, including the Van Hove Othello of 2003/2012 and the latest, controversial 2018/2020 Othello, the first main house production with a black actor as Othello, the author analyses the interaction between blackface and (institutional) racism in Dutch society and theatre and how Othello has become an active player in this debate. 2021-09-07T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544948 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544948 Text Callaghan, Dympna, Shakespeare without women ::representing gender and race on the Renaissance stage / London ;, New York :, Routledge, 2000-01-24T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/110335 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/110335 Text Pittman, L. Monique, Shakespeare's contested nations ::race, gender, and multicultural Britain in performances of the history plays / "Shakespeare's Contested Nations argues that performances of Shakespearean history at British institutional venues between 2000 and 2016 manifest a post-imperial nostalgia that fails to tell the nation's story in ways that account for the agential impact of women and people of color, thus foreclosing promising opportunities to reexamine the nation's multicultural past, present, and future in more intentional, self-critical, and truly progressive ways. A cluster of interconnected stage and televisual performances and adaptations of the history play canon illustrate the function Shakespeare's narratives of incipient "British" identities fulfill for the postcolonial United Kingdom. The book analyzes treatments of the plays in a range of styles-staged performances directed by Michael Boyd with the Royal Shakespeare Company (2000-2001) and Nicholas Hytner at the National Theatre (2003, 2005), the BBC's Hollow Crown series (2012, 2016), the RSC and BBC adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies (2013, 2015), and a contemporary reinterpretation of the canon, Mike Bartlett's King Charles III (2014, 2017). This book will be of great interest to scholars and students of Shakespeare, theatre, and politics"-- 2025-05-27T12:23:07Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/1153505 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/1153505 Text Akhimie, Patricia, Shakespeare and the cultivation of difference ::race and conduct in the early modern world / 2018-04-02T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/354021 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/354021 Text Norman, Ben, A history of death in 17th century England / 2021-05-05T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544533 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544533 Text Shapiro, James, Shakespeare in a divided America ::what his plays tell us about our past and future / "From leading Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, a timely and insightful examination of what the world's greatest dramatist can teach us about life in an America riven by conflict. The United States has always been divided, but Americans from all walks of life have also always shared a deep affinity for the plays William Shakespeare, even if their meaning has been fiercely contested. For well over two centuries now, Americans of all stripes--presidents and activists, writers and soldiers--have turned to his plays to prosecute the most intense and pivotal quarrels in the soul of the nation, a nation defined by its political and social pluralism. That prosecution dates back to pre-Revolutionary times, when Hamlet's famous soliloquy--"To be or not to be"--was appropriated both by defenders of British rule and those seeking to overthrow it. Shapiro traces Shakespeare's formative and crucial role in our nation's history, from the otherwise progressive John Quincy Adams's sinister opinions on race expressed via (and only via) his views on Othello; to the politically-charged rhetoric that gripped Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth; to the resounding American triumph of Shakespeare in Love, produced by Harvey Weinstein's then fledgling company, Miramax, which exploded a debate about adultery at the time of President Clinton's Oval Office affair with Monica Lewinsky. But Shapiro also reports firsthand on Shakespeare's undeniable contemporary significance, after a production of Julius Caesar, which depicted the assassination of a President Trump-like Julius Caesar, was exploited calculatedly by Breitbart and Fox News to ignite outrage. With style and unmatched expertise, Shapiro contends brilliantly that few writers or artists can shed as much light on the hot-button issues of American life--such as immigration, same-sex love, political violence, and class warfare--and that by better understanding the role of Shakespeare's plays in American history we might take steps towards mending our bitterly divided land"-- 2021-03-25T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544396 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/544396 Text Shapiro, James, A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599 / New York :, HarperCollins Publishers, 2005-11-01T05:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/191880 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/191880 Text Erickson, Amy Louise, Women and property in early modern England / London ;, New York :, Routledge, 1996-08-14T04:00:00Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/91739 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/91739 Text Valls-Russell, Janice, Heavey, Katherine, Shakespeare's classical mythology ::a dictionary / "Mythological figures, creatures, places and stories crowd Shakespeare's plays and poems, featuring as allusions, poetic analogies, inset shows, scene settings, and characters or plots in their own right. This dictionary illuminates these, bringing them to life for today's audiences, readers and theatre practitioners. The 200 headings correspond to words and names actually used by Shakespeare: individual figures (Dido, Venus, Hercules), categories (Amazons, Centaurs, nymphs, satyrs), places (Colchos, Troy). Medium and longer entries also cover early modern usage and critical analysis in a cross-disciplinary approach that includes reception, textual, performance, gender and political studies"-- 2025-05-22T18:13:54Z http://catalog.folger.edu/record/1153466 http://catalog.folger.edu/record/1153466 Text