Shakespeare research guide: Books
Sample book titles
Rebuilding Shakespeare's GlobeCall Number: Main Collection PR2920.G87 1989Publication Date: 1989Details efforts of the International Shakespeare Globe Centre to create Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Includes results of the historical research, detailed plans for the complex, many illustrations from the period, and modern photographs and speculative drawings.
The world's a stage: Shakespeare and the dramatic view of lifeCall Number: OnlinePublication Date: 2004After discussing the structuralism, post structuralism, Marxist, queer and feminist theories of dramatic action and dramaturgical development, the author posits an ontological (and refreshing) vision of Shakespearian stagecraft and dramatic movement.
Shakespeare: The invention of the human by Call Number: Main Collection PR2989.B58 1998Publication Date: 1998Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of Harold Bloom's life's work in reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. It is his passionate and convincing analysis of the way in which Shakespeare not merely represented human nature as we know it today, but actually created it: before Shakespeare, there was characterization; after Shakespeare, there was character, men and women with highly individual personalities -- Hamlet, Falstaff, Iago, Cleopatra, Macbeth, Rosalind, and Lear, among them. In making his argument, Bloom leads us through a brilliant and comprehensive reading of every one of Shakespeare's plays.
Finding books - online and print
Use the Library catalog to find either digitized books to read online or print books to check out.
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Find items on the TCC library's shelves, as well as digital books from our ebook collections.
Search tips:
Enter your search terms. You can use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard character in the library catalog to search for variations of a root word. In the example below, I've searched for: shakespeare psycholog* -- which will search for psychology or psychological aspects, etc. in Shakespeare's works or world.
E-books in the library :
Some books in the results list will be electronic. Click on the chain link icon to explore and read the book. You can also download a chapter to an e-reader.
Print books in the library:
Some books are in print, in the library's "Main Collection." Write down the call number. If you need assistance finding books, see a librarian!
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