<p>DR 305/576: From Shakespeare to Sheridan</p><p>I have listed two sets of readings. One set includes recent historical texts and books concerning theatre in Ireland and the British Isles. The second list includes books published between 1590 and 1870. </p><p>Blakemore Evans, G. Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century. Published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia. http://etext.virginia.edu/bsuva/promptbook/</p><p>Connolly, S.J. Religion Law and Power: The Making of Protestant Ireland 1660-1760. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.</p><p>Foster, R.F. The Oxford Illustrated History of Ireland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.</p><p>Kavenik, Frances. British Drama: 1660-1779. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.</p><p>MacLysaght, Edward. Irish Life in the Seventeenth Century. Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 1979.</p><p>Morash, Christopher. A History of the Irish Theatre: 1601-2000. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.</p><p>Stockwell, La Tourette. Dublin Theatres and Theatre Customs (1637-1820). Kingsport Press: Kingsport, Tennessee, 1938.</p><p>Tuite, Patrick. Theatre of Crisis: The Performance of Power in the Kingdom of Ireland, 1662-1692. Susquehanna University Press: Selingsgrove, PA, 2010.</p><p>Histories Published Between 1590 and 1883</p><p>**Borlase, Edmund. The History of the Execrable Irish Rebellion. London: For Henry Brome and Richard Chiswell in St. Paul’s Church-Yard, 1662.</p><p>**Camden, William. Camden's Britannia, Newly Translated into English with Large Additions and Improvements. London: printed by F. Collins, for A. Swalle at the Unicorn at the West end of St. Paul's Church-yard; and A&F Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater Noster Row, 1695.</p><p>**Campion, Edmund. in Sir James Ware, Ed. The Historie of Ireland, collected by three learned authors viz. M Hanmer, E. Campion, and E. Spenser. (Published by Sir J. Ware, 3 pts.) Dublin: by the Society of Stationers, 1633.</p><p>**Cox, Sir Richard. Hibernia Anglicana: or the history of Ireland. London: by H. Clark for Joseph Watts, 1689.</p><p>**Derricke, John. The Image of Irelande. 1581. John Small, ed. Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, 1883.</p><p>Gilbert, John Thomas. A History of the City of Dublin. Dublin: McGlashan & Gill, 1859. 3 vol.</p><p>Hitchcock, Robert. An Historical View of the Irish Stage; From the Earliest Period Down to the Close of the Season 1788. Interposed with Theatrical Anecdotes and an Occasional Review of the Irish Dramatic Authors and Actors in Two Volumes. By Robert Hitchcock, Prompter of the Theatre-Royal, Dublin. Dublin: Printed by R. Marchbanck, 1788. **Holinshed, Raphael. The first and second volumes of chronicles...now newlie augmented and continued...1586, by John Hooker alias Vowell Gent. and others...3 vols. London: At the expense of John Harrison, etc., 1587-88. (This offers another way to get to Campion’s section on Ireland).</p><p>**Petty, Sir William. A Political Survey of Ireland: The Political Anatomy of Ireland, 1672. Dublin, reprinted 1689.</p><p>**Spenser, Edmund. A View of the State of Ireland. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell Publishers, 1997.</p><p>**Temple, Sir John. The Irish Rebellion: With the Barbarous Cruelties and Bloody Massacres Which Ensued Thereupon. London: by R. White for Samuel Gellibrand, 1646.</p>