Shakespeare in His Time Reading List, 2018 General Reading

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Shakespeare in his Time Reading List, 2018

Course convenor: Prof. Helen Hackett, [email protected]

The purpose of this course is to build on your undergraduate study of Shakespeare by developing your knowledge of his works in relation to the contexts of his time. Each seminar will consider a work or works by Shakespeare in relation to an aspect of historical context, which might include: related works by his contemporaries; authorial collaboration; literary sources and traditions; political, religious, social, intellectual, or cultural developments; early textual history; or early modern performance practices. Your coursework essay should also discuss a work or works by Shakespeare in relation to some aspect of his time.

In preparation for the course you should read as wide a selection as possible from Shakespeare’s plays and poems. You may wish to buy a copy of the Complete Works, or you may already own one from your undergraduate days. The department recommends the Riverside Complete Shakespeare, the Arden Shakespeare Complete Works, the Oxford Complete Shakespeare, or the Norton Shakespeare. UCL Library has good holdings both of these and of single-play editions.

You should also make use of the reading list below. It begins with a general section (pp. 1-3), which you should use for selective browsing according to your interests, and to support your essay work. After this (pp. 3-8) you will find lists of preparatory reading for each seminar. For queries about these individual reading lists, please contact the tutor whose name is shown against the seminar title.

Please note that for each seminar you must read in advance the specified literary work(s) by Shakespeare or his contemporaries. In each case we recommend a particular edition whose Introduction and notes will be particularly useful to you, so do make use of these as well as reading the text of the work. Sometimes required critical reading is also indicated; this too must be done in advance of the seminar. Shortly before each seminar the tutor may contact you with more detailed preparation instructions. You are also encouraged to browse in the list of suggested reading for each seminar, especially if you plan to write an essay on the topic concerned.

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General Reading

Bate, Jonathan, and Dora Thornton (eds), Shakespeare: Staging the World (London: British Museum, 2012) Briggs, Julia, This Stage-Play World: English Literature and its Background, 1580-1625 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983) Kastan, David Scott, ed., A Companion to Shakespeare (Oxford: Blackwell, 1999) Kermode, Frank, The Age of Shakespeare (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 2004)

On Shakespeare’s life: Holland, Peter, ‘Shakespeare, William (1564–1616)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2013), http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/25200 Weis, René, Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography (London : John Murray, 2007)

On Shakespeare in relation to his contemporaries: Hoenselaars, Ton, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010) Wiggins, Martin, Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)

On sources: Bullough, Geoffrey, ed., Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, 8 vols (London: Routledge and Paul, 1957-1975) Gillespie, Stuart, Shakespeare’s Books: A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources (London: Continuum, 2004)

On early textual history: Murphy, Andrew, ed., A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007) Stern, Tiffany, Making Shakespeare: From Stage to Page (London: Routledge, 2004) Wells, Stanley, and Gary Taylor, William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion (Oxford: Clarendon, 1987)

On early modern performance practices: Carson, Christie, and Farah Karim-Cooper, eds, Shakespeare’s Globe: A Theatrical Experiment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Gurr, Andrew, The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642, 4th edn (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009)

On Shakespeare’s London: Crawforth, Hannah, Sarah Dustagheer, and Jennifer Young, Shakespeare in London (London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2015)

On Shakespeare and religious contexts: Cummings, Brian, Mortal Thoughts: Religion, Secularity and Identity in Shakespeare and Early Modern Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013) Kastan, David Scott, A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014) Shell, Alison, Shakespeare and Religion (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2010)

New historicist approaches: Greenblatt, Stephen, Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988) Montrose, Louis, The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of the Elizabethan Theatre (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)

E-resources available from UCL Library:

From http://www.ucl.ac.uk/library/electronic-resources/databases: BBC Shakespeare Archive Drama Online – includes Arden Shakespeare editions Early English Books Online (EEBO) Historical Texts Oxford Scholarly Editions Online

Shakespeare Collection World Shakespeare Bibliography

See also: Folger Shakespeare Library Digital Image collection and Folger Digital Texts downloadable source code.

A number of Shakespeare e-journals are available via UCL Library – see especially Shakespeare, Shakespeare Quarterly, and Shakespeare Survey.

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Reading for Seminars

1. Methodologies: Hamlet in its Time (Prof. Helen Hackett, [email protected])

Recommended edition: Hamlet, ed. Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor, Arden Shakespeare 3rd series (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2006) NB the sections of the Introduction headed ‘Hamlet in Shakespeare’s time ‘ (pp. 36-59), ‘The story of Hamlet’ (pp. 59-74), and ‘The composition of Hamlet’ (pp. 74-94) will be particularly useful.

Suggested reading: Greenblatt, Stephen, Hamlet in Purgatory (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2001) Guy, John, ‘Introduction: The 1590s: the second reign of Elizabeth I?’, in The Reign of Elizabeth I: Court and Culture in the Last Decade, ed. John Guy (Cambridge UP, 1995), pp. 1-19 Mullaney, Steven, ‘Mourning and misogyny: Hamlet, The Revenger’s Tragedy, and the final progress of Elizabeth I, 1600-1607’, Shakespeare Quarterly, 45.2 (Summer 1994), pp. 139-62 Murphy, Andrew, ‘What Happens in Hamlet?’, in A Concise Companion to Shakespeare and the Text, ed. Andrew Murphy (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007; online publication 2008), pp. 1-14. Shapiro, James, 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (London: Faber, 2005), esp. pp. 307-58 Alison Shell, ‘The History of Purgatory and Hamlet’ (in Ch. 2), and ‘“Marry, How Tropically!”: Hamlet and Real-Life Repentance’ (in Ch. 3), in Shakespeare and Religion (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2010)

2. Titus Andronicus and Ovid (Dr Chris Stamatakis, [email protected])

Recommended editions: Titus Andronicus, ed. Jonathan Bate, Arden Shakespeare 3rd series (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2002). ______ed. Eugene M. Waith, Oxford World’s Classics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984, 2008).

Required critical reading: Oakley-Brown, Liz, ‘Titus Andronicus and the Sexual Politics of Translation’, in Ovid and the Cultural Politics of Translation in Early Modern England (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006), pp. 23–43. Taylor, Anthony Brian, ‘Animals in “manly shape as too the outward showe”: Moralizing and Metamorphosis in Titus Andronicus’, in Anthony Brian Taylor (ed.) Shakespeare’s Ovid: the

Metamorphoses in the Plays and Poems (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 66– 80.

Suggested reading: Bate, Jonathan, Shakespeare and Ovid (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 101–17. Burrow, Colin, ‘Ovid’, in Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 92–132. Taylor, Anthony Brian, ‘Melting Earth and Leaping Bulls: Shakespeare’s Ovid and Arthur Golding’, Connotations 4 (1994–5): 192–206. Warren, Roger, ‘Trembling Aspen Leaves in Titus Andronicus and Golding’s Ovid’, Notes and Queries 29.2 (1982): 112. West, Grace, ‘Going by the Book: Classical Allusions in Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus’, Studies in Philology 79.1 (1982): 62–77.

You might also find it useful to look at Arthur Golding’s English translation of Ovid (The .xv. bookes of P. Ouidius Naso, entytuled Metamorphosis, London: Willyam Seres, 1567): Shakespeare’s Ovid Being Arthur Golding’s Translation of the Metamorphoses, ed. William Rouse (New York: Norton, 1966).

Electronic text (from Perseus): http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3atext%3a1999.02.0074

3. The Body in Venus and Adonis and Marlowe’s Hero and Leander (Dr Eric Langley, [email protected])

Recommended editions: Venus and Adonis in Shakespeare’s Poems, ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones and H.R. Woudhuysen (Arden) Marlowe, Christopher, Hero and Leander in The Complete Poems and Translations, ed. Stephen Orgel (Penguin Classics)

Required critical reading: Please read ONE of the following introductory chapters: Hodges, Devon L., ‘Chapter One: Of Anatomy,’ Renaissance Fictions of Anatomy (Amherst: Massachusetts UP, 1985), pp. 1-19 Paster, Gail, ‘Introduction: Civilizing the Humoral Body,’ The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England (Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993), pp. 1-22 Sawday, Jonathan, ‘Chapter Two: The Renaissance Body: From Colonization to Invention,’ The Body Emblazoned: Dissection and the Human Body in Renaissance Culture (London: Routledge, 1995), pp. 16-38

Suggested reading: Craik, Katharine, Reading Sensations in Early Modern England (Palgrave, 2007) Gallagher, Lowell, and Shankar Raman (eds.), Knowing Shakespeare: Senses, Embodiment and Cognition (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) Hillman, David, Shakespeare's Entrails: Belief, Scepticism, and the Interior of the Body (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007) ______, and Carla Mazzio (eds.), The Body in Parts: Fantasies of Corporeality in Early Modern Europe (London: Routledge, 1997)

Keach, William, Elizabethan Erotic Narratives: Irony and Pathos in the Ovidian Poetry of Shakespeare, Marlowe and Their Contemporaries (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1977) Stanivukovic, Goran V. (ed.), Ovid and the Renaissance Body (Toronto: UTP, 2001)

4. Shakespeare and Renaissance Economics: The Merchant of Venice (Dr Eric Langley, [email protected])

Recommended edition: The Merchant of Venice, ed. John Drakakis (London: Arden, 2011)

Required critical reading: Jonathan Gil Harris, ‘Taint and Usury: Gerard Malynes, The Dutch Church Libel, The Merchant of Venice,’ in Sick Economies: Drama, Mercantilism, and Disease in Shakespeare’s England (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), pp. 52-82

Suggested reading: Simmel, Georg, The Philosophy of Money (London: Routledge Classics, 2011) Shell, Marc, Money, Language and Thought: Literary and Philosophic Economies from the Medieval to the Modern Era (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982) Ingram, Jill Phillips, Idioms of Self-Interest: Credit, Identity, and Property in Engish Renaissance Literature (New York: Routledge, 2006) Essays by Darcy, Mentz, Spencer, and Netzloff in Linda Woodbridge (ed.), Money and the Age of Shakespeare: Essays in New Economic Criticism (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003)

5. Boy Actors and Female Roles: As You Like It and Twelfth Night (Prof. Helen Hackett, [email protected])

Recommended editions: As You Like It, ed. Juliet Dusinberre, Arden Shakespeare 3rd series (London: Thomson, 2006) Twelfth Night, ed. Keir Elam, Arden Shakespeare 3rd series (London: Cengage Learning, 2008)

Suggested reading: Ackroyd, Julie, Child Actors on the London Stage, Circa 1600 (Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2017) Dekker, Thomas, and Thomas Middleton, The Roaring Girl, ed. Elizabeth Cook (London: Bloomsbury/New Mermaids, 2014) Greenblatt, Stephen, ‘Fiction and Friction’, Ch. 3 of Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (OUP, 1988) Jardine, Lisa, Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare (1983; 2nd edn, Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989) Mamujee, Shehzana, ‘“To serve us in that behalf when our pleasure is to call for them”: performing boys in Renaissance England’, Renaissance Studies 28.5 (Nov 2014): 714–30 Orgel, Stephen, Impersonations: The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1996) Rackin, Phyllis, ‘Shakespeare’s crossdressing comedies’, in A Companion to Shakespeare’s Works: vol. III: The Comedies, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003), pp. 114-36

Shapiro, Michael, Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1994) Walen, Denise A., “Constructions of female homoerotics in early modern drama”, Theatre Journal 54.3 (Oct 2002): 411-30.

[Reading Week]

6. Othello and Domestic Tragedy (Dr Emma Whipday, [email protected])

Recommended editions: Othello ed. Michael Neill (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006) Heywood, Thomas, A Woman Killed with Kindness, in A Woman Killed with Kindness and Other Domestic Plays, ed. Martin Wiggins (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008)

Required critical reading: Panek, Jennifer, ‘Punishing Adultery in A Woman Killed with Kindness’, SEL 34.2 (Spring, 1994), 357- 378 Boose, Lynda E., ‘‘‘Let it Be Hid”: The Pornographic Aesthetic of Shakespeare’s Othello’, in New Casebooks: ‘Othello’, ed. Lena Cowen Orlin (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp.22-48

Suggested reading: Anon., A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608) ed. Chris Cleary: http://www.tech.org/~cleary/yorksh.html Boose, Lynda E., ‘Othello’s Handkerchief: “The Recognizance and Pledge of Love”’, ELR 5 (1975), 360-374 Neill, Michael, ‘Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery and the Hideous in Othello’, Shakespeare Quarterly 40.4 (Winter, 1989), 383-412 Orlin, Lena Cowen, Private Matters and Public Culture (Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1994): see introduction, chapter 3 and conclusion Richardson, Catherine, Domestic Life and Domestic Tragedy in Early Modern England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2006), chapter 5

7. King Lear and Value (Prof. René Weis, [email protected])

Recommended editions: King Lear, ed. Reginald Foakes (Arden Shakespeare, 1997); King Lear, ed. Stanley Wells (Oxford, 2000: the Quarto text); King Lear: a Parallel Text Edition, ed. René Weis, 2nd edn (Harlow: Longman, 2010).

Suggested reading: Brayton, Dan. ‘Angling in the Lake of Darkness: Possession, Dispossession, and the Politics of Discovery in King Lear’, ELH, 70:2 (2003): 399–426. De Grazia, Margreta, ‘The Ideology of Superfluous Things: King Lear as Period Piece’, in Subject and Object in Renaissance Culture, ed. Margreta de Grazia, Maureen Quilligan and Peter Stallybrass (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp.17–42. Elton, William, King Lear and the Gods (Lexington: Kentucky University Press, 1966) Heilman, Robert, This Great Stage (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1948).

Scott, William O, ‘Contracts of Love and Affection: Lear, Old Age, and Kingship’, Shakespeare Survey, 55 (2002): 36–42.

8. The Sonnets: Poetic Tradition and Intimacy (Prof. René Weis, [email protected])

Recommended edition: Shakespeare’s Sonnets, ed. Katherine Duncan-Jones (Arden Shakespeare, 2010)

Suggested reading: Ferry, Anne, The ‘Inward’ Language: Sonnets of Wyatt, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), pp. 31–70. Fineman, Joel, Shakespeare’s Perjured Eye: The Invention of Poetic Subjectivity in the Sonnets (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986), pp. 49–85. Innes, Paul, Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Sonnet: Verses of Feigning Love (London: Macmillan, 1997), pp. 18–38. Schiffer, James, ‘Reading New Life into Shakespeare’s Sonnets: A Survey of Criticism’, in Shakespeare’s Sonnets: Critical Essays, ed. James Schiffer (New York: Garland, 1999), pp. 3–71. Roche, Thomas, Petrarch and the English Sonnet Sequences (New York: AMS Press, 1989), pp. 380–461. Wells, Stanley, and Paul Edmondson, Shakespeare's Sonnets (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004).

9. Late plays: Cymbeline and The Winter’s Tale (Dr Emma Whipday, [email protected])

Recommended editions: Cymbeline ed. Valerie Wayne (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2017) The Winter’s Tale ed. Stephen Orgel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996)

Required critical reading: McDonald, Russ, Shakespeare’s Late Style (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), chapter 4 Hackett, Helen, ‘“Gracious be the issue”: maternity and narrative in Shakespeare’s late plays’, in Shakespeare’s Late Plays: New Readings, ed. Jennifer Richards and James Knowles (Edinburgh UP, 1999), pp.25-39

Suggested reading: Burnette, Amy K., ‘Bearing Death in The Winter’s Tale’ in A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare ed. Dympna Callaghan (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000), pp.440-456 Gajowski, Evelyn, ‘Sleeping Beauty, or “What’s the Matter?”: Female Sexual Autonomy, Voyeurism, and Misogyny in Cymbeline’ in Re-visions of Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of Robert Ornstein ed. Gajowski (Cranbury, N.J.: Associated University Presses, 2004), pp.89-107 Hackett, Helen, Women and Romance Fiction in the English Renaissance (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), especially chapter 9 Jordan, Constance, ‘Contract and Conscience in Cymbeline’, Renaissance Drama 25 (1994), 33-58 Mueller, Martin, ‘Hermione’s Wrinkles, or, Ovid Transformed: An Essay on The Winter’s Tale’, Comparative Drama 5.3 (Fall, 1971), pp.226-239 Wilcox, Helen, ‘Gender and Genre in Shakespeare’s Tragicomedies’, in Reclamations of Shakespeare, ed. by A.J. Hoenselaars (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1994), pp.129-38

10. Shakespeare and Co-authorship: Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Prof. Alison Shell, [email protected])

Recommended editions: King Henry VIII, ed. Gordon McMullan (London: Arden Shakespeare, 2000) The Two Noble Kinsmen, ed. Lois Potter (London: Arden Shakespeare, 1997)

Suggested reading: Dalya Alberge, ‘Christopher Marlowe credited as one of Shakespeare’s co-writers’, The Guardian, 23 Oct 2016, https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/oct/23/christopher-marlowe-credited-as- one-of-shakespeares-co-writers Alexander, Catherine M.S., The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare’s Late Plays (CUP, 2009) David Carnegie and Gary Taylor (eds), The Quest for Cardenio: Shakespeare, Fletcher, Cervantes, and the Lost Play (OUP, 2012) Gregory Doran, Shakespeare’s Lost Play: In Search of Cardenio (London: Nick Hern Books, 2012) Double Falsehood, ed. Brean Hammond (London: Arden, 2010) John Fletcher and William Shakespeare, The Two Noble Kinsmen, ed. N.W. Bawcutt, introd. Peter Swaab (London: Penguin, 2009) Jonathan Hope, The Authorship of Shakespeare’s Plays: A Socio-linguistic Study (CUP, 1994) Gordon McMullan, ‘A rose for Emilia: collaborative relations in The Two Noble Kinsmen’, in Renaissance Configurations: Voices/Bodies/Spaces, 1580-1690 (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1998), pp. 129-50 ---, Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing (CUP, 2007) Jennifer Richards and James Knowles (eds), Shakespeare’s Late Plays: New Readings (Edinburgh UP, 1999) William Shakespeare and Others, Collaborative Plays, ed. Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013) Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, Co-Author: A Historical Study of Five Collaborative Plays (OUP, 2002)