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Shakespeare in His Time Reading List, 2018 General Reading 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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) 1 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 2 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 3 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
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