Reading List

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English 706 THE IMPERIAL THEME: SHAKESPEARE AND THE DESIGNS OF EMPIRE

2007 Draft READING LIST 

Do not be alarmed by the size of this list, which is intended as a guide to resources rather than a prescriptive reading list.  Because the list has been compiled from a variety of sources, bibliographic details may not always be complete, and some items may not be in the University Library: please let me know if you have difficulty getting hold of them. In the course of the year key samplings of this material will be placed in the folders held in the course cupboard in Room 204. Of course the fact that a particular book or article does not appear here implies no judgement about its quality; and I'm always glad of information about items that might be added to the list. 

(I have made copies of my collection Putting History to the Question, which contains a number of essays relevant to the course, available from the office at below cost).

Major Early Modern Texts

Students may use any reliable modern texts of Shakespeare. If you plan to buy a collected edition, the Norton Shakespeare, with its strongly New Historicist bias is particularly appropriate to this course.  The introduction to my own edition of Othello includes extensive discussion of  critical and theatrical approaches to issues of race in the play. 

Marlowe, 1 & 2 Tamburlaine; The Jew of Malta

Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book 5

Shakespeare, Titus Andronicus; The Rape of Lucrece; 1 Henry VI; King John; Richard II; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Henry V; The Merchant of Venice; Othello; Anthony and Cleopatra; Cymbeline; The Tempest

Fletcher, The Island Princess

Fletcher and Massinger: The Sea-Voyage

Daniel Vitkus (ed), Three Turk Plays

Anthony Parr (ed), Three Renaissance Travel Plays

Heywood, 1 Fair Maid of the West

Dryden/Davenant, The Tempest; or, The Enchanted Island

 
General 

Dympna Callaghan, Women & Gender in Renaissance Tragedy (New York, 1989)

Tom Cartelli, Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations (London, 1999)

Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning (Chicago, 1980)

-- `Culture' in Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin (eds), Critical Terms for Literary Study (Chicago, 1990)

--          Learning to Curse (New York, 1990)

--  (ed.), Representing the English Renaissance (Berkeley, 1988)

Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin (eds),  Postcolonial Shakespeares (London, 1998)

Michael Neill, Putting History to the Question: Power, Politics, and Society in English Renaissance Drama (New York, 2000)

Jean-Pierre Maquerlot & Michele Willems (eds) , Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time (Cambridge, 1996)

Karen Newman, Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama    (1991)

David Norbrook, Poetry and Politics in Renaisance England (London, 1984)

Stephen Orgel, Political Shakespeare (New York, 1999) – contains essays on the Histories, Ireland, Race, early modern Nationalism etc.

Bridget Orr, Empire on the English Stage, 1660-1714 (2001)

Patricia Parker, Literary Fat Ladies (1989), esp. Chapter 7,`Rhetorics of Property: Exploration, Inventory, Blazon' Shakespeare from the Margins: Language, Culture, Context (Chicago, 1996)

Edward Said, Culture and Imperialism (New York, 1993) 

Shakespeare: Universal and Local 

Jonathan Bate, Shakespearean Constitutions (1991)

Laura Bohannan, `Shakespeare in the Bush," in James P. Spradley & David W. McCurdy, Conformity and Conflict (1977)

Michael Bristol, Shakespeare's America, America's Shakespeare (1991)

J.P.Brockbank et al., "A symposium on Shakespeare in China," Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988)

Thomas Cartelli, Repositioning Shakespeare: National Formations, Postcolonial Appropriations (1999)

Michael Dobson, The Making of the National Poet (1992)

Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield (eds), Political Shakespeare  (1985)

John Drakakis (ed.), Alternative Shakespeares (1985)

Malcolm Evans, Signifying Nothing  (Brighton, 1986)

Lu Gu-Sun, `Hamlet Across Space and Time,' Shakespeare Survey 36 (1983)

Terence Hawkes, That Shakespeherian Rag  (1986)

--  Alternative Shakespeares 2 (1996)

Graham Holderness (ed.), The Shakespeare Myth (1988)

Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin (eds), Post-Colonial Shakespeares (London, 1998)

Louis Montrose, `The Elizabethan Subject and the Shakespearean Text,' in Patricia Parker and David Quint (eds), Literary Theory, Renaissance Texts (1986)

Wole Soyinka, `Shakespeare and the Living Dramatist' in Art, Dialogue and Outrage (1988)

-- also in Shakespeare Survey 39 (1987)

Martin Orkin, Shakespeare Against Apartheid (1988)

--          `Cruelty, King Lear, and the South African Land Act 1913,' Shakespeare Survey 40 (1988)

Jyotsna Singh, Colonial Narratives: Cultural Dialogues  (London, 1996)

-- `Different Shakespeares: the Bard in Colonial/Postcolonial India,' Theatre Journal (1989)

Gary Taylor, Re-Inventing Shakespeare (1990)

Leonard Tennenhouse, Power on Display (1986) 

The Colonisation of Ireland 

William Caxton, Description of Ireland, ed Marie Collins (New York, 1988)

Sir John Davies, A Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was   never entirely Subdued  (1612)

John Derricke, Image of Ireland with the Discoverie of Woodkarne (1581)

Ralph Holinshed [Richard Stanihurst], Chronicles (Ireland) 1586

Ben Jonson, The Irish Masque at Court (1613-14)

Peter Lombard, The Irish War of Defense, 1598-1600, ed. & trans.   M.J. Byrne (1930)

Fynes Moryson, Description of Ireland (c. 1603) -- also in Henry    Morley (ed.), Ireland under Elizabeth and James I (1890)

--          Itineraries (second part: Ireland) (1617)

Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland (1596)The Faerie Queene, Book 5 `The Legend of Artegall, or Justice' 

J.H. Andrews, `Geography and Government in Elizabethan Ireland,' in Nicholas Stephens & Robin E. Glasscock (eds.), Irish Geographical Studies in honour of E. Estyn Evans (1970)

Bruce Avery, `Mapping the Irish Other: Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland,' ELH (1990)

David J. Baker, Between Nations: Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, and the Question Of Britain        (Stanford, 1997)

-- `"Wildehirisheman": Colonialist Representation in Shakespeare's Henry V,' ELR 22 (1992), 37-61

Brendan Bradshaw, Andrew Hadfield, & Will Maley (eds.), Representing Ireland: Literature and the Origins of Conflict (Cambridge: 1993).

Ciaran Brady, `Spenser's Irish Crisis: Humanism and Expansion in            the 1590s,' Past and Present 111 (1986), 17-49

Ciaran Brady and Raymond Gillespie (eds.), Natives and Newcomers: Essays on the Making of Irish History (Dublin: 1986)

Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray, Shakespeare and Ireland: History, Politics, Culture (Basingstoke, 1997)

David Cairns & Shaun Richards, Writing Ireland: Colonialism, Nationalism and Culture  (London,1988), esp. Chap. 1 `What ish my nation?'

Nicholas Canny, The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: A Pattern Established, 1565-1576 (1976)

--          Kingdom and Colony: Ireland in the Atlantic World, 1560-1800 (Baltimore, 1988)

--          `Edmund Spenser and the Development of Anglo-Irish Identity,' Yearbook of English Studies 13 (1983), 1-19

--          Making Ireland British (Oxford, 2001)

Nicholas Canny and Ciaran Brady, `Debate: Spenser's Irish Crisis:   Humanism and Experience in the 1590s' Past and Present 120 (1988), 201-15

Sheila T. Cavanagh, `"Such was Irena's Countenance:" Ireland in Spenser's Prose and Poetry,' TSLL 28 (1986)

Sandra Clark, Elizabethan Pamphleteers (1983)

Patricia Coughlan (ed.), Spenser and Ireland (1989)

Edwin Greenlaw, `Spenser and British Imperialism,' Modern Philology 9 (1912), 347 ff.

Eamon Grennan, `Language and Politics: A Note on Some Metaphors in Spenser's A View of the Present State of Ireland,' Spenser Studies 111 (1982), 99-111

Andrew Hadfield, Edmund Spenser's Irish Experience: wild fruit and savage soyl (1997)

--`Spenser, Ireland, and Sixteenth-Century Political Theory," Modern Language Review 89 (1994), 1-18

Jonathan Gil Harris `Food Beyond the Pale: Ireland, Edenic Fruit and the Ravenous Body Politic,' in his Sussex Ph.D thesis, 'The Incontinent Body Politic' (held in the library)

Christopher Highley, Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland  (Cambridge, 1997)

--          `Wales, Ireland, and 1 Henry IV',             Renaissance Drama 21 (1990), 91-114

Bernhard Klein, Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern Ireland (Basingstoke, 2001)

--          'Partial Views: Shakespeare and the Map of Ireland,' Early Modern Literary Studies 4          (1998), 1-20

Richard McCabe, Spenser's Monstrous Regiment: Elizabethan Ireland and the Politics of Difference (2002)

Willy Maley, Salvaging Spenser  (London, 1997)

Andrew Murphy, "But the Irish Sea Betwixt Us: Ireland, Colonialism, and Renaissance Literature (Lexington, 1999)

--          'Shakespeare's Irish History,' in Emma Smith (ed.), Shakespeare's Histories (Oxford, 2004),            pp. 203-25

Michael Neill, `Broken English and Broken Irish: Nation, Language, and the Optic of Power in Shakespeare's   Histories,' Shakespeare Quarterly 45 (1994), 1-32; also in Neill, Putting History to the Question (see above)

Patricia Palmer, Language and Conquest in Early Modern Ireland: English Renaissance Literature    and Elizabethan Imperial Expansion (Cambridge, 2001)

--          'Missing Bodies, Absent Bards: Spenser, Shakespeare and a Crisis in Criticism,'   ELR 36            (2006), 376-95

H. Pawlisch, Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland (Cambridge, 1985) 

Literature of Discovery etc. 

Robert Gray, A Good Speed to Virginia (1609)

Andrew Hadfield, Amazons, Savages, and Machiavels: Travel and Colonial Writing in English, 1550-1630 (Oxford, 2001)

Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages and Discoveries of the English Nation (1589 etc)

Peter Hulme and Neil Whitehead (eds), Wild Majesty:  Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day  (Oxford, 1992)

Ivo Kamps and Jyotsna Singh (eds), Travel Knowledge: European "Discoveries" in the Early Modern Period (Basingstoke, 2001).

John Leo [Africanus], A Geographical Historie of Africa, trans. John Pory (1600)

Samuel Purchas, Hakluytus Posthumus: or, Purchas His Pilgrimes (1625)

Sir Walter Raleigh,  The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (1596), ed. Neil Whitehead (Manchester, 1997)

John Smith, A Map of Virginia (1612) 

Emily Bartels, "Imperialist Beginnings: Richard Hakluyt and the  Construction of Africa," Criticism 34 (1992), 517-38.

Linda Colley, Captives: Britain, Empire , and the World, 1600-1850  (New York, 2003)

Andrew Hadfield, Literature, Travel, and Colonial Writing in the English Renaissance 1545-1625  (Oxford, 1998)

Claire Jowitt, Voyage Drama and Gender Politics, 1589-1642 (Manchester, 2003)

Djelal Kadir, Columbus and the Ends of the Earth (Berkeley, 1992)

Jean-Pierre Macquerlot and Michele Willems (eds), Travel and Drama in Shakespeare's Time (Cambridge, 1996)

Victor Morgan, `The Literary Image of Globes and Maps in Early Modern England,' in Sarah

Tyacke (ed.), English Map-Making 1500-1650 (1983), 46-55

William H. Sherman, John Dee: The Politics of Reading & Writing in the English Renaissance (Amherst, 1995), esp. Chap 7     "This British Discovery & Recovery Enterprise: Dee & England's MaritimeEmpire."

Jyotsna Singh , Colonial Narratives, Cutural Dialogues: "Discoveries " of India in the Language of Colonisation (London, 1996)

Pauline Moffitt Watts, `Prophecy and Discovery: On the Spiritual Origins of Christopher Columbus's "Enterprise of the Indies",' American Historical Review (1985)

 

Cartography and Chorography

Philip Armstrong, "Spheres of Influence; Cartography and the Gaze in Shakespearean Tragedy and History,' Shakespeare Studies 23 (1995), 39-68

Jerry Brotton, Trading Territories: Mapping the Early Modern World (1998)

Tom Conley, "Pierre Boiastuau's Cosmographic Stage: Theater, Text, and Map," Renaissance Drama 23 (1992), 59-86

Samuel Y. Edgerton, jr., `From Mental Matrix to Mappamundi to Christian Empire: The Heritage

of Ptolemaic Cartography in the Renaissance,  in David Woodward (ed.), Art and   Cartography (1987)

Andrew Gordon and Bernhard Klein (eds), Literature, Mapping and the Politics of Space in Early Modern Britain (Cambridge, 2001)

J.B. Harley, `Meaning and Ambiguity in Tudor Cartography', in Sarah Tyacke (ed.), English Map-Making 1500-1650 (1983), 22-45

-- "Maps, Knowledge, and Power" in D. Cosgrove & S. Daniels (eds), The Iconography of Landscape (Cambridge, 1988), 277-312

John Gillies, Shakespeare & the Geography of Difference (Cambridge, 1994)

John Gillies and Virginia Mason Vaughan (eds), Playing the Globe: Genre and Geography in            EnglishRenaissance Drama (London: 1998)

Richard Helgerson, `The Land Speaks: Cartography, Chorography, and Subversion in Renaissance England,' Representations 16 (1986), also in S. Greenblatt (ed),Representing the English Renaissance (Berkeley, 1988); & Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood (below)

Bernhard Klein, Maps and the Writing of Space in Early Modern Ireland (Basingstoke, 2001)

Graham Huggan, `Decolonizing the Map: Post-Colonialism, Post-Structuralism and the Cartographic Connection', Ariel 20 (1989) 
 

The Invention of England/Britain

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism (1983)

David Baker and Willy Maley (eds), British identities and English Renaissance Literature     (Cambridge,2002)

Brendan Bradshaw and Peter Robers (eds), British Consciousness and Identity: The Making of       Britain1533-1707 (Cambridge: 1998)

Robin Cohen, Frontiers of Identity: the British and the Others (London: 1994)

Philip Edwards, Threshold of a Nation: A study in English and Irish Drama (1979), esp. Ch. 4 `Nation and Empire', pp. 66-109

Andrew Gurr, 'Why Captain Jamy in Henry V?', Renaissance Drama 21 (1990), 361-73.

Andrew Hadfield, Literature, Politics, and National Identity, Reformation to Renaissance      (Cambridge, 1994).

--          'Spenser, Drayton, and the Question of Britain,' RES 51 (2000), 582-99

Richard Helgerson, Forms of Nationhood: the Elizabethan Writing of England, (Chicago, 1992)

A.J. Hoenselaars, Images Englishmen and Foreigners in the Drama of Shakespeare & his Contemporaries, 1558-1642 (London:1992)

Graham Holderness, '"What ish my nation?" Shakespeare and National Identities,' Textual Practice             5, 80-99.

Clare McEachern, The Poetics of English Nationhood (Cambridge,   1996)

Andrew Hadfield, Literature, Politics and National Identity: Reformation to Renaissance  (Cambridge: 1994)

Joan Rees, `Hogs, Gulls, and Englishmen: Drayton and the Virginian Voyages,' Yearbook of English Studies 13 (1983), 20-31

Laura Tosi, 'A Map of Dis-unity: Henry V and the Making of "England,"' in Shaul Bassi and   Roberta Cimarosti (eds),  Paper Bullets of the Brian: Experiments with Shakespeare          (Venice: 2006), pp. 146-66.

Peter Womack, "Imagining Communities: Theatres and the English Nation in the C16th," in David Aers (ed.), Culture and History 1350-1600 (London: 1992), pp. 91-145  

 

Colonisation, Culture Contact, Ideas of Race 

Ben Jonson, Masques of Blacknesse and Beautie

Michel de Montaigne, Essays (esp. Vol. 1, Essay 3, `Of the Cannibals', Vol.3, Essay 6, `Of

Coaches')

John H. Parry & Robert H. Keith (eds.), New Iberian World, vol. 1

Peter Hulme and Neil Whitehead (eds.), Wild Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present Day (Oxford: 1992) 

Catherine Alexander and Stanley Wells (eds.), Shakespeare and Race (Cambridge, 2000)

Kwame Anthony Appiah, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (Oxford: 1992)

Jack D'Amico, The Moor in English Renaissance Drama (1991)

Michel de Certeau, Heterologies (1986)

-- The Writing of History (1988)   

Eric Cheyfitz, The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and  Colonization from `The Tempest' to

`Tarzan,' (1991)

Edward Dudley & Maximilian Novak (eds), The Wild Man Within    (1972)

Peter Erickson, "Representations of Blacks and Blackness in the Renaissance,"  Criticism 35 (1993), 499-527

Mary Floyd-Wilson, English Ethnicity and Race in Early Modern Drama (Cambridge, 2003).

Mary C. Fuller, `Ralegh's Fugitive Gold: Reference and Deferral in The Discoverie of Guiana,' Representations 33 (1991), 42-64

Stephen Greenblatt, Marvelous Possessions (Oxford, 1991)

-- (ed.)  New World Encounters (Berkeley, 1993)

Jean Howard and Phyllis Rackin (eds.), Engendering a Nation: a feminist account of Shakespeare's English Histories (London, 1997)

Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Carribean, 1492-1797 (1986)

Heidi Hutner, Race and Culture in Stuart Drama (Oxford, 2001)

Ren‚ Jara and Nicholas Spadaccini, 1492-1992: Re/Discovering Colonial Writing (Minneapolis, 1989)

Eldred Jones, The Elizabethan Image of Africa (Washington, 1971)

-- Othello's Countrymen: the African in English Renaissance Drama (Oxford, 1965)

Bernard McGrane, `The Other in the Renaissance,' in Beyond Anthropology (New York, 1990)

Steven Mullaney, `Strange Things, Gross Terms, Curious Customs: the Rehearsal of Cultures in the

Late Renaissance," in S. Greenblatt (ed), Representing the English Renaissance    (Berkeley, 1988)

Anthony Pagden, The Fall of Natural Man (Cambridge, 1982)

--   European Encounters with the New World (New Haven, 1993)

-- Lords of All the World: Ideologies of Empire in Spain, Britain, and France, c. 1500-c.1800 (New

Haven,1995)

--          `The Savage Critic: Some European Images of the Primitive,' Yearbook of English Studies 13 (1983), 32-45

H.C. Porter, The Inconstant Savage (1979)

Race & Class 33,  Special Issue: `The Curse of Columbus'

David E. Stannard, American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World (Oxford: 1992)

Tsvetan Todorov, The Conquest of America (New York, 1987)

The Islamic World and the East 

Christopher Marlowe, 1&2 Tamburlaine

Nabil Matar (ed. and trans.),  In the Lands of the Christians: Arabic Travel Writing in the Seventeenth Century (London, 2003)

Daniel Vitkus (ed.), Three Turk plays from early modern England : Selimus, A Christian turned Turk, and The Renegado (New York, 1999) 

Richmond Barbour, Before Orientalism: London's Theatre of "the East", 1586-1636 (Cambridge, 2003)

Jonathan Burton, Traffic and Turning: Islam and English Drama, 1579-24 (Newark: 2005)

Barbara Fuchs, Mimesis and Empire; the New World, Islam, and European Identities (Cambridge, 2003)

Daniel Vitkus, Turning Turk : English theater and the multicultural Mediterranean, 1570-1630 (New York, 2003)

-- (ed.)   Piracy, Slavery, and Redemption:Barbary Captivity Narratives from Early Modern     England  (New York, 2001) 

Nabil Matar,       Islam in Britain, 1558-1685 (New York, 1998)

--          Turks, Moors and Englishmen in the age of discovery (New York, 1999)

 

Gender, Race, and Discovery 

Dympna Callaghan, Women & Gender in Renaissance Tragedy (New York, 1989)

Heidi Hutner, Race and Culture in Stuart Drama (Oxford, 2001)

Ania Loomba, Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama  (London, 1989)

Clare McManus, Women on the Renaissance Stage (London, 2004)

Louis Montrose, `The Work of Gender in the Discourse of Discovery', Representations 33 (Winter 1991), pp. 1-41 (this issue of the journal contains a number of other relevant essays.)

Andrew Parker (et al.), Nationalisms and Sexualities (New York, 1992)

Margo Hendricks and Patricia Parker, Women, "Race", and Writing in the Early Modern Period (New York, 1993) 

 

The Idea of Empire 

C. & A. Belsey, `Icons of Divinity,' in  their Renaissance Bodies (1990)

Jeffrey Knapp, An Empire Nowhere: England, America, and Literature from `Utopia' to `The Tempest' (Los Angeles: 1992)

Roy Strong, Gloriana: The Portraits of Queen Elizabeth (1987)

--          Art and Power (1984)

Frances Yates, Astraea: the Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century (London, 1975)

  

Marlowe 

Emily C. Bartels, Spectacles of Strangeness: Imperialism, Alienation, & Marlowe (1993)

-- 'Malta, the Jew, and the Fictions of Difference: Colonialist Discourse in Marlowe's

The Jew of Malta,' ELR 20 (1990)

-- `The Double Vision of the East: Imperialist Self-Construction in Marlowe's Tamburlaine, Part 1,'  Renaissance Drama 23 (1992), 7-24

Stephen Greenblatt, `Marlowe and the Will to Absolute Play' in Renaissance Self-Fashioning  (Chicago, 1980)

--  `Marlowe, Marx, and Anti-Semitism', in Learning to Curse (New York, 1990)

Jonathan Gil Harris, `Ruy Lopez Openings: Jewish Physicians, 'Poison and the Pathological Body Politic,' in his Sussex Ph.D thesis, The Incontinent Body Politic (held in the library) – now published in revised form as Foreign Bodies and the Body Politic: Discourses of Social Pathology in Early Modern England (Cambridge, 1998)

Ethel Seaton, `Marlowe's Map', in Clifford Leech (ed.) Marlowe:Twentieth Century Views (Englewood Cliffs, 1964)

  

The Rape of Lucrece 

Roy W. Battenhouse, Shakespearean Tragedy: its Art and its Christian Premises ( 1969, esp. Chap.1 & Appendix, pp. 377-      406.

Philippa Berry, `Women, Language, and History in The Rape of Lucrece,' Shakespeare Survey 44 (1992), 33-9

Ian Donaldson, The Rapes of Lucrece (1982)

Patricia Kleindienst Joplin, `Ritual Work on Human Flesh: Livy's Lucretia and the Rape of the Body Politic,' Helios  17(1990), 51-70

Coppelia Kahn, `The Rape in Shakespeare's Lucrece,' Shakespeare          Studies 9 (1976), 45-72.

Richard A. Lanham, The Motives of Eloquence (1976), pp. 82-110

Katharine E. Maus, `Taking Tropes Seriously: Language and Violence in Shakespeare's Rape of Lucrece,' Shakespeare Quarterly 37 (1986)

Mercedes Maroto Camino, The Stage am I: Raping Lucrece in Early Modern England (Salzburg,1996)

Patricia Parker, `Rhetorics of Property: Exploration, Inventory, Blazon,' in Literary Fat Ladies (Chap. 7)

Catherine R. Stimpson, `Shakespeare and the soil of rape,' in C.R.S. Lenz, G. Greene, and C.T. Neely (eds), The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare (1980)

Nancy Vickers, `"The Blazon of Sweet Beauty's Best": Shakespeare's Lucrece, in Patricia Parker Parker and Geoffrey Hartman, Shakespeare and the Question of Theory (1985)

Carolyn D. Williams, `"Silence, like a Lucrece knife:" Shakespeare and the Meanings of Rape,' Yearbook of English Studies 23 (1993)

Georgiana Ziegler, `My lady's chamber: female space, female chastity in Shakespeare,' Textual Practice 4 (1990)

  

Roman History Plays 

Paul A. Cantor, Shakespeare's Rome: Republic and Empire (1976)

Maurice Charney, Shakespeare's Roman Plays (1961)

Robert S. Miola, Shakespeare's Rome (1983)

Coppelia Kahn, Roman Shakespeare (London, 1997)

Mungo MacCallum, Shakespeare's Roman Plays and their Background (1910)

Ernest Schanzer, The Problem Plays of Shakespeare (1963)

D.A. Traversi, Shakespeare: the Roman Plays (1963)

Thomas Vivian, Shakespeare's Roman Worlds (1989)

  

Titus Andronicus

(Good recent editions include Eugene Waith's Oxford text, and Jonathan Bate's outstanding New Arden.) 

Ronald Broude, `Roman and Goth in Titus Andronicus,' Shakespeare Studies 6 (1970), 27-34

Richard Brucher, `"Tragedy Laugh On": Comic Violence in Titus Andronicus,' Renaissance Drama ns 10 (1979), 71-92.

Brian Gibbons, `The Human Body in Titus Andronicus and Other Early Shakespeare Plays,' Shakespeare Jahrbuch (1989), 209-22

Douglas Green, `Interpreting "her martyr'd signs": Gender and Tragedy in Titus Andronicus,' Shakespeare Quarterly 40 (1989), 317-26

A.C. Hamilton, `Titus Andronicus: The Form of Shakespearean Tragedy,' Shakespeare Quarterly 14, (1963), 201-13

G.K. Hunter, `Shakespeare's Earliest Tragedies: Titus Andronicus and Romeo and Juliet,' Shakespeare Survey 27 (1974), 1-9

Patricia Kleindienst Joplin, `Ritual Work on Human Flesh: Livy's Lucretia and the Rape of the Body Politic,' Helios  17 (1990), 51-70

Gillian M. Kendall, `"Lend me thy hand": Metaphor and Mayhem in Titus Andronicus,'

Shakespeare Quarterly 40 (1989), 299-316

Antony Sher and Gregory Doran, Woza Shakespeare! Titus Andronicus in South Africa (London, 1996)

Alan Somers, `"Wilderness of Tigers": Structure and Symbol in Titus Andronicus,' Essays in Criticism 10 (1960), 275-89

Albert H. Tricomi, `The Mutilated Garden in Titus Andronicus,' Shakespeare Studies 9 (1976), 89-105.

Eugene Waith, `The Metamorphosis of Violence in Titus Andronicus,' Shakespeare Survey 10 (1957), 39-49

David Willbern, `Rape and Revenge in Titus Andronicus,' English Literary Renaissance 8 (1978), 123-40
 

Anthony and Cleopatra

(There are 3 recent editions of the play with extensive introductions and commentary by David Bevington (Cambridge), Michael Neill (Oxford), and John Wilders (New Arden))

L.T. Fitz (Linda Woodbridge), `Egyptian Queens and Male Reviewers: Sexist Attitudes in Antonyand Cleopatra Criticism,' Shakespeare Quarterly 28 (1977), 297-316

Gil Harris, `"Hadst Thou Narcissus in Thy Face": Roman Desire and the Difference it Fakes in Antony and Cleopatra, Shakespeare Quarterly 45 (1994), 408-25.

Lucy Hughes-Hallett, Cleopatra: Histories, Dreams, Distortions (1988)

Lorraine Helms, `"The High Roman Fashion": Sacrifice, Suicide, and the Shakespearean Stage,' PMLA (1992), 554-65

Jyotsna Singh, `Renaissance Antitheatricality, Antifeminism, and Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra,' Renaissance Drama 21 (1990),  99-121

Madelon Sprengnether, `The Boy Actor and Femininity in Antony and Cleopatra,' in Norman H. Holland et al. (eds.), Shakespeare's Personality (1989), 191-205 

  

Cymbeline 

J.P. Brockbank, `History and Histrionics in Cymbeline,'  Shakespeare Survey 11

Joan Carr, `Cymbeline and the Validity of Myth,' Studies in Philology 75 (1978), 316-30

Howard Felperin, `Tragical-Comical-Hstorical-Pastoral: Cymbeline and Henry VIII', in his Shakespeare and Romance (1972)

Lila Geller, `Cymbeline and the Imagery of Covenant Theology,' Studies in English Literature 20 (1980), 241-55

Emrys Jones, `Stuart Cymbeline', Essays in Criticism 11 (1961),   84-99

J.S. Lawry, `"Perishing Root and Increasing Vine" in Cymbeline,'   Shakespeare Studies 12 (1979), 179-93

Alexander Leggatt, `The Island of Miracles: An Approach to Cymbeline,' Shakespeare Studies 10 (1989), 191-209

Richard Levin, `The Relation of External Evidence to the Allegorical and Thematic Interpretation of Shakespeare,' Shakespeare Studies 13 (1980), 1-29

Robert S. Miola, `Cymbeline: Beyond Rome', in Shakespeare's Rome (1983)

Patricia Parker, `Romance and Empire: Anachronistic Cymbeline,' in George M. Logan and Gordon Teskey (eds), Unfolded Tales: Essays on Renaissance Romance (1989)

Anne Thompson, `Philomel in Titus Andronicus and Cymbeline,' Shakespeare Survey  31 (1978), 23-32

Glynne Wickham, Shakespeare's Dramatic Heritage (London, 1969), pp. 249-65

-- `Shakespeare's Investiture Play," TLS 18 December (1969), 1456

-- `Riddle and Emblem: a Study in the Dramatic Structure of Cymbeline in John Carey (ed.) English Renaissnce Studies Presented to Dame Helen Gardner (1980), pp. 94-113

Frances Yates, `Cymbeline,' in her Shakespeare's Last Plays: A New Approach (1975), pp. 39-61 

 

English History Plays 

Dennis H. Burden, `Shakespeare's History Plays: 1952-83,'   Shakespeare Survey 38 (1985)

James L. Calderwood, Metadrama in Shakespeare's Henriad: Richard II to Henry V (Berkeley, 1979)

Lily B. Campbell, Shakespeare's Histories: Mirrors of Elizabethan Policy (1947)

John D. Cox, Shakespeare and the Dramaturgy of Power  (1989)

Deborah Curren-Aquino, King John: New Perspectives (1989)

Jonathan Dollimore & Alan Sinfield, `History & Ideology: The Instance of Henry V', in John Drakakis (ed) Alternative Shakespeares (1985)

Barbara Hodgdon, The End Crowns All: Closure and Contradiction in Shakespeare's History Plays (1991)

Graham Holderness, Shakespeare's History (1986)

Shakespeare Recycled: The Making of Historical Drama (1992)

Jean Howard and Phyllis Rackin, Engendering a Nation: a feminist account of Shakespeare's

English Histories (London, 1997)

Ernest H. Kantorowicz, The King's Two Bodies: a study in Medieval Political Theology (1957)

Jan Kott, Shakespeare Our Contemporary (1964)

Robert Lane, `"When Blood is their Argument": Class, Character, and Historymaking in Shakespeare's and Branagh's Henry V,' ELH 61 (1994)

Alexander Leggatt, Shakespeare's Political Drama (1988)

Robert Ornstein, A Kingdom for a Stage: the Achievement of Shakespeare's History Plays (1972)

Robert B. Pierce, Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State (1971)

Paola Pugliatti, Shakespeare the Historian (London: 1996)

Moody E. Prior, The Drama of Power (1973)

Phyllis Rackin, Stages of History: Shakespeare's English Chronicles (1990)

Irving Ribner, The English History Play in the Age of Shakespeare  (1965)

Wilbur Sanders, The Dramatist and the Received Idea (1968)

Emma Smith (ed.), Shakespeare's Histories (Oxford, 2004)

E.M.W. Tillyard, Shakespeare's History Plays  (1944)

John Wilders, The Lost Garden (1978)

  

Othello

(There are good new editions by Norman Sanders (Cambridge) and Ernst Honigman (New Arden).  The introduction to the older Arden, edited by M.R. Ridley,  is worth reading as an extraordinary document of unconscious racism). 

Doris Adler, ``The Rhetoric of Black and White in Othello,' Shakespeare Quarterly  25 (1974)

Antony Gerard Barthelemy, Critical Essays on Shakespeare's 'Othello' (New York: G.K. Hall, 1994)

Graham Bradshaw, Misrepresentations: Shakespeare and the Materialists (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993).

Emily C. Bartels,  `Making More of the Moor: Aaron, Othello, and the Refashioning of Race,'

Shakespeare Quarterly, 41 (1990)

Derek Cohen, `Patriarchy and Jealousy in Othello  and The           Winter's Tale,' MLQ 48 (1987), 207-23.

--     `Othello's Suicide' (copy available from MN)

Julie Hankey (ed.), Othello,  Plays in Performance Series (1987)

G.K. Hunter, `Othello and Colour Prejudice,' Proceedings of the British Academy 53 (1967)

Eldred Jones, Othello's Countrymen  (1965)

-- The Elizabethan Image of Africa (Washington, 1971)

G.M. Matthews, `Othello and the Dignity of Man,' in Arnold Kettle(ed.), Shakespeare in a Changing World (1964)

Michael Neill, `Changing Places in Othello,' Shakespeare Survey 37 (1984), 115-132

-- `Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery and the Hideous in Othello,' Shakespeare Quarterly 40 (1989), 383-412

-- '"Mulattos", "Blacks", and "Indian Moors": Othello and Early Modern Constructions of Human Difference,' Shakespeare Quarterly 49 (1998), 361-74

-- 'Opening the Moor: Death and Discovery in Othello,' in Neill, Issues of Death (Oxford, 1997), pp. 361-74

Karen Newman, '"And Wash the Ethiop White": Femininity and the Monstrous in Othello, in Jean Howard and Marion O'Connor (eds), Shakespeare Reproduced: the text in history and ideology (London, 1987), pp.143-62

Edward Pechter, Othello and Interpretative Traditions (Iowa, 1999)

Ian Smith, 'Barbarian Errors: Performing Race in Early Modern England,' Shakespeare Quarterly 49 (1998), 168-86

Edward A. Snow, `Sexual Anxiety and the Male Order of Things in Othello,' ELR 10 (1980), 384-412

Martin Orkin, `Othello and the "plain face' of Racism,' Shakespeare Quarterly 38 (1987), also in Orkin's Shakespeare Against Apartheid (1988)

Jyotsna Singh, `Shakespeare's Othello, African Identities, and Racial Conflicts,' (copy available from MN)

Emma Smith, Othello (Horndon, Devon: 2004)

Susan Snyder, Othello: Critical Essays (New York: Garland, 1988)

Virginia M. Vaughan & Kent Cartwright (eds.),'Othello': New Perspectives (London: Associated University Presses, 1991)

Virginia Mason Vaughan, 'Othello': A Contextual History (Cambridge; 1994)

Daniel J. Vitkus, "Turning Turk in Othello: the Conversion and Damnation of the Moor," Shakespeare Quarterly 48 (1997), 145-76

  

The Merchant of Venice

(There are a number of good modern editions of the play including Jay Halio's Oxford Edition (1993), James Bulman's Manchester University Press Edition (1991), Molly Mahood's Cambridge Edition (1987) which contains a useful bibliography, and John Russell Brown's Arden Edition (1959/64).

Kim Hall, "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner? Colonization and Miscegenation in The Merchant of Venice, Renaissance Drama 23 (1992), 87-111)

Graham Holderness, The Merchant of Venice (Penguin: 1993)

Mark Shell, Money, Language and Thought (Baltimore: 1982)

John Wilders (ed.), The Merchant of Venice: A Casebook (London: 1969) – contains, among things, Freud's classic essay on "The Theme of the Three Caskets."

Avram Oz, The Yoke of Love: Prophetic Riddles in 'The Merchant of Venice' (1995), includes provocative treatment of racial issues by this prominent Israeli scholar and theatrical director.

James Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews (Nw York, 1996). The most comprehensive study of  this topic. 

There are several video recordings of Merchant in the library, two of them distinguished by fascinatingly different interpretations of Shylock by Laurence Olivier and Warren Mitchell.  The BBC version (with Mitchell) offers a fuller text, but a much more conservative approach to the play; the other is  Jonathan Miller's made-for-TV version of his celebrated Edwardian dress production with Olivier and Joan Plowright, in which the text is cut and rearranged in line with the director's more provocative reading. The more recent Al Pacino version is also worth watching – as, of course, is Don Selwyn's remarkable Maori Merchant of Venice: Te Tangata Whai Rawa o Weniti.
 

The Tempest

(The editions by Frank Kermode (Arden) and Stephen Orgel (Oxford) five usefull contrasting views of the play)

David Baker, 'Where is Ireland in The Tempest?',  in Mark Thornton Burnett and Ramona Wray        (eds.),  Shakespeare and Ireland (Basingstoke, 1997), pp. 68-88.

J.P. Brockbank, `The Tempest: Conventions of art and Empire,' and `The Island of The Tempest', in

On Shakespeare  (1989)

Francis Barker and Peter Hulme, 'Nymphs and reapers heavily vanish: The Discursive Con-texts of The Tempest',  in Drakakis (ed) Alternative Shakespeares (1985)

John Bender, 'The Day of The Tempest', ELH 47 (1980).

Paul Brown, `"This thing of darkness I acknowledge mine": The Tempest and the Discourse of         Colonialism', in J. Dollimore  and A. Sinfield (eds), Political Shakespeare: New Essays in  Cultural Materialism (1985)

Malcolm Evans, `Master and Slave', in Evans, Signifying Nothing, Chapter 4

Jean Feerick, '"Divided in Soyle:" Plantation and Degeneracy in The Tempestand The Sea Voyage,'             Ren.D ns 35 (2006), 27-54

Barbara Fuchs, 'Conquering Islands: Contextualising The Tempest,' SQ 48 (1997), 45-62.

John Gillies, 'Shakespeare's Virginian Masque,' ELH 53 (1986), 673-707.

Stephen Greenblatt, Learning to Curse  (New York, 1990) – the title essay, "Learning to Curse: Aspects of Linguistic Colonialism in the C16th" originally appeared in F. Chiapelli (ed) First Images of America (1970)

Trevor R. Griffiths, '"This Island's Mine": Caliban and Colonialism,' Yearbook of English Studies, 13 (1983)

Peter Hulme, Colonial Encounters: Europe and the Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 (1986), esp. Chapters 3-4.

-- "Hurricanes in the Carribees: The Constitution of the Discourse of English Colonialism" in Francis Barker et al. (eds), 1642: Literature and Power in the C17th (1980).

-- and William Sherman, "The Tempest" and its Travels (Philadelphia, 2000).

Stephen Orgel, `Prospero's Wife' in Stephen Greenblatt (ed), Representing the English Renaissance (Berkeley, 1988)

--   `Shakespeare and the Cannibals,' in Marjorie Garber (ed.), Cannibals, Witches, and Divorce (1987)

Meredith Skura, 'Discourse and the Individual: The Case of  Colonialism in The Tempest,' Shakespeare Quarterly 40, 1989.

James Smith, 'The Tempest' (1954) in E.M. Wilson (ed.), Shakespearian and other Essays (1974).

Alden T. Vaughan, 'Shakespeare's Indian: The Americanization of Caliban', Shakespeare Quarterly 39 (1988)

A.T. & V.M. Vaughan, Shakespeare's Caliban: A Cultural History (1991)

Deborah Willis, 'Shakespeare's Tempest and the Discourse of  Colonialism,' Studies in English Literature 29 (1989),       277-89

The Tempest: Early Modern Analogues, Reworkings etc 

William Davenant and John Dryden, The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island (1667)

John Fletcher & Philip Massinger, The Sea-Voyage (1622)

Thomas Heywood, 1 & 2 Fair Maid of the West, or A Girl Worth Gold (1610, 1631)

John Fletcher, The Island Princess (1621)
 

The Tempest & the Post-Colonial World 

Frantz Fanon, Black Skin, White Masks (1952), Chapter 4.

Thomas Cartelli, 'Prospero in Africa: The Tempest as colonialst text and pretext', in J. Howard and M. O'Connor (eds), Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology (1987)

Jeffrey L. Hantman, `Caliban's Own Voice: American Indian Views of the Other in Colonial Virginia,' New Literary History 21 (1992)

George Lamming, The Pleasures of Exile (London, 1960)

O. Mannoni, Prospero and Caliban: The Psychology of Colonisation (1950)

Jonathan Miller, Subsequent Performances (London, 1986)

M.V. Moses, `Caliban and his Precursors: the politics of Literary History and the Third World,' in

David Perkins (ed.), Theoretical issues in Literary History (1991)

Rob Nixon, `Caribbean and African Appropriations of The Tempest,' Critical Inquiry  13 (1987)

Roberto Fernandez Retamar, Caliban and other essays, trans. Edward Baker (1989)

Chantal Zabus, `A Calibanic Tempest in Anglophone and Francophone New World Writing,' Canadian Literature 104 (1985)

 

Some important C20th Productions, Adaptations, Appropriations etc. 

Videos

Janet Suzman (dir.), Othello, The Market Theatre, Johannesburg (1988)

Laurence Olivier (dir.), Othello

Peter Greenaway (dir.), Prospero's Books

Derek Jarman (dir.), The Tempest 

James Ivory (dir.), Shakespeare Wallah  
 

Novels and Plays 

Murray Carlin, Not Now, Sweet Desdemona  (1967) -- East African play in which a black and a white South African actor rehearse Othello)

David Geary/Willie Davis/Theatre at Large, Savage Hearts/Manawa Taua (1995) (New Zealand play in which a C19 rangatira returns from England with a company of travelling actors to play Othello)

Anne-Marie Macdonald, Goodnight Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet) – feminist rewriting of Othello + Romeo and Juliet.

Ken Mitchell (with Humphry and the Dumptrucks) Cruel Tears – a country opera  (1973) – musical version.

Caryl Phillips, The Nature of Blood (1997) – novel by Anglo-Caribbean writer which reworks Othello

Salman Rushdie, The Moor's Last Sigh (1995) -- complex fictional  palimpsest which makes significant use of Othello.

Tayib Salih, Season of Migration to the North -- Sudanese novel which plays off Othello      

Djanet Sears, Harlem Duet (1997) – reworking of Othello by black Canadian dramatist. 

Aimé Césaire, A Tempest [Une Tempête] (1969) -- West Indian play which rewrites The Tempest with Caliban as the hero.

Michelle Cliff, No Telephone to Heaven (1989) -- West Indian-North American novel which reworks The Tempest and Jane Eyre, among other texts from the imperial centre.

Barbara Kingsolver, The Poisonwood Bible (1999) – powerful American novel of the postcolonial

Congo which reworks elements of The Tempest.

George Lamming, Water with Berries -- Barbadian variations on The Tempest

V.S. Naipaul, Guerrillas -- Trinidadian variations on The Tempest.

Ngugi wa Thiong'o, A Grain of Wheat, novel of Kenyan independence which makes use of The Tempest 

Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (1992) -- prize-winning British novel of the slave-trade which juxtaposes the action against      a production of the Dryden/Davenant Tempest.

Nicholas Jose, The Rose Crossing (1994) -- Australian novel of C17th voyaging that reworks both the Shakespeare and the Dryden/Davenant Tempests.

Marina Warner, Indigo: or, Mapping the Waters (1991) English novel which reworks The Tempest from a postcolonial feminist perspective)

M.K. Joseph,  A Pound of Saffron --- campus novel set in 1950s Auckland             and centred upon a production of Antony and Cleopatra.

Derek Walcott, A Branch of the Blue Nile -- play in which a group of West Indian actors rehearse Antony and Cleopatra. 

Nadine Gordimer, My Son's Story -- Shakespeare against apartheid?