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Shakespeare: Recent Bibliography, Reference and Resources
Bergeron, David and Geraldo de Sousa. Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide, 3rd Ed., rev., 1995.
McDonald, Russ. The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare, 2nd ed., 2001.
Vickers, Brian, ed. Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, mult. vols., 1974-.
Wells, Stanley, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies, 1986.
Wells, Stanley, ed. Bibliographical Guide, 1990.
Jonson: Bibliography, Reference and Resources
Adams, Joseph Quincy and Jesse Franklin Bradley. The Jonson Allusion-Book, 1597-1700. New Haven: Yale UP, 1922.
Brock, D. Heyward. A Ben Jonson Companion. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1983.
Craig, D.H. Ben Jonson: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge, 1990.
Harp, Richard and Stanley Stewart. The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson. Cambridge UP, 2000.
Lehrman, Walter D., Delores Sarafinski, and Elizabeth Savage, eds. The Plays of Ben Jonson: A Reference Guide. Boston: G.K. Hall, 1980.
Loxley, J. The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson, Routledge, 2002.
Magaw, Katie J. “Modern Books on Ben Jonson: A General Topical Index.” The Ben Jonson Journal, 5 (1998): 201-47.
Shakespeare: Recent Biographies
Honan, P. Shakespeare: A Life, 1999.
Levi, P. The Life and Times of William Shakespeare, 1989.
Schoenbaum, S. William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life, 1975.
Schoenbaum, S. Shakespeare's Lives, 1991.
Jonson: Recent Biographies
Kay, W. David. Ben Jonson: A Literary Life. New York: St. Martin’s, 1995.
Miles, Rosalind. Ben Jonson: His Life and Work. London: Routledge, 1986.
Riggs, David. Ben Jonson: A Life. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1989.
Summers, Claude J. and Ted-Larry Pebworth. Ben Jonson Revised. Twayne’s English Authors Series. Boston: Twayne, 1999.
Stage and Performance Studies
Adams. J. C. The Globe Playhouse, rev. 1961.
Barish, J. The Antitheatrical Prejudice, 1981.
Bentley, G.E. The Jacobean and Caroline Stage, 1962.
Bentley, G.E. The Profession of Player in Shakespeare’s Time, 1590-1642, 1984.
Bentley, G.E. The Seventeenth-Century Stage: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1968.
Bentley, G.E. The Profession of the Dramatist in Shakespeare's Time, 1971.
Bradbrook, M.C. The Rise of the Common Player, 1964.
Chambers, E.K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1923.
Chapman, George. “An Invective Wrighten by Mr. George Chapman Against Mr. Ben: Johnson.” In The Poems of George Chapman. Ed. Phyllis Brooks Bartlett. New York: MLA Publications, 1941. 374-378.
Dekker, Thomas. The Gul’s Horne-Booke. 1609. In The Non-Dramatic Works of Thomas Dekker. II: 193-268.
Foakes, R.A. Illustrations of the English Stage, 1580-1642, 1985.
Gurr, A. Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London, 1987.
Gurr, A. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642, rev. 1992.
Harbage, A. Shakespeare's Audience, 1941.
Hodges, C. W. The Globe Restored, 1953.
Barton, John. Playing Shakespeare, 1984.
Bate, Jonathon and Russell Jackson, eds. Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History, 1996.
Beckerman, Bernard. Shakespeare at the Globe, 1599-1609. New York: Macmillan, 1962, 1967.
Bentley, G.E. The Jacobean and Caroline Stage. 7 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1962.
----------. The Profession of Dramatist in Shakespeare’s Time, 1590-1642, 1971.
----------. The Profession of Player in Shakespeare’s Time, 1590-1642, 1984.
----------. The Seventeenth-Century Stage: A Collection of Critical Essays, 1968.
Berry, Herbert. Shakespeare’s Playhouses, 1987.
Brown, John Russell. Shakespeare’s Plays in Performance, 1967.
----------. William Shakespeare: Writing for Performance, 1996.
----------. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols, 1923.
Foakes, R.A. Illustrations of the English Stage, 1580-1642, 1985.
Gair, W. Reavley. The Children of Paul’s, 1982.
Greg, W.W., ed. Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses: Stage Plots; Actor’s Parts; Prompt Books. 2 vols. 1931, 1969.
Gurr, Andrew Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London, 1987.
----------. The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642. 3rd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1992.
Harbage, Alfred. Shakespeare’s Audience, 1942.
Henslowe, Philip. Henslowe’s Diary. Ed. R.A. Foakes and R.T. Rickert, 1961.
Hodges, C. Walter. The Globe Restored. 1953, 1968, 1973.
Hogan, Charles B., ed. Shakespeare in the Theatre, 1701-1800, 1952-57.
King, T.J. Shakespearean Staging, 1599-1642, 1971.
Levin, Richard. “The Acting Styles of the Children’s Companies.” American Notes and Queries 22 (1983): 34-5.
Shapiro, Michael. Children of the Revels: The Boy Companies of Shakespeare’s Time and Their Plays, 1977.
Speaight, Robert. Shakespeare on the Stage: An Illustrated History of Shakespearean Performance, 1973.
Warren, Roger. Staging Shakespeare's late plays, 1990.
Jonson: Critical Studies
Barish, Jonas, ed. Ben Jonson: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1963.
Barish, Jonas. Ben Jonson and the Language of Prose Comedy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1960.
Barton, Anne. Ben Jonson, Dramatist. New York: Cambridge UP, 1984.
Cartelli, Thomas. “Bartholomew Fair as Urban Arcadia: Jonson Responds to Shakespeare.” Renaissance Drama n.s. 14 (1983): 151-72.
Evans, Robert C. Jonson and the Contexts of His Time. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1994.
Harp, R. and S. Stewart, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Ben Jonson, 2000.
Haynes Jonathan. The Social Relations of Jonson‘s Theater. Cambridge UP, 1992.
Jackson, Gabriele. Vision and Judgment in Ben Jonson’s Drama. New Haven: Yale UP, 1968.
Knights, L.C. Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson. 1937. London: Chatto & Windus, 1962.
Leggat, Alexander. Ben Jonson: His Vision and His Art. London: Methuen, 1981.
McDermott, Kristen. “Versions of Femininity in Bartholomew Fair.” Renaissance Papers (1993): 91-115.
McDonald, Russ. Shakespeare and Jonson, Jonson and Shakespeare. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1988.
Orgel, Stephen The Jonsonian Masque. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1967. New York: Columbia UP, 1981.
Rowe, George. Distinguishing Jonson: Imitation, Rivalry, and the Direction of a Dramatic Career. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P, 1988.
Sweeney, John Gordon III. Jonson and the Psychology of Public Theater. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1984.
Watson, Robert. Ben Jonson’s Parodic Strategy: Literary Imperialism in the Comedies. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1987.
Wayne, Don E. “Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson: An Alternative View.” Renaissance Drama n.s. 13 (1982): 103-130.
Wilson, Edmund. “Morose Ben Jonson.” 1938. Ben Jonson: A Collection of Critical Essays. 60-74.
Womack, Peter. Ben Jonson. London: Basil Blackwell, 1986.
Shakespeare: Recent Critical Studies
Barber, C.L. Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1959.
Bristol, Michael. Big Time Shakespeare, 1996.
Calderwood, James. Shakespearean Metadrama: The Argument of the Play. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1971.
Ioppolo, Grace. Revising Shakespeare, 1991.
Jardine, Lisa. Reading Shakespeare Historically, 1996.
Kernan, Alvin. Shakespeare, The King's Playwright, 1995.
Laroque, François. Shakespeare’s Festive World: Elizabethan Seasonal Entertainments and the Professional Stage, trans. Janet Lloyd, 1991.
Taylor, Gary. Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present, 1989.
Early Modern Drama: General Critical Studies
Abel, Lionel. Metatheatre. New York: Hill and Wang, 1963.
Akrigg, G.P.V. Jacobean Pageant: The Court of King James. New York: Atheneum, 1974.
Babcock, Barbara, ed. The Reversible World: Symbolic Inversion in Art and Society. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1978.
Barish, Jonas. The Anti-Theatrical Prejudice. Berkeley: The U of California P, 1981.
Braunmuller, A.R. and Michael Hattaway, eds. The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama. New York: Cambridge UP, 1990.
Briggs, J. This Stage-Play World: English Literature and its Background, 1580-1625, 2nd ed., 1997.
Bristol, Michael. Carnival and Theater: Plebean Culture and the Structure of Authority in Renaissance England. London: Routledge, 1985.
Byrne, M. and S. Clare. Elizabethan Life in Town and Country, rev. 1961.
Donaldson, Ian, ed. Jonson and Shakespeare. Humanities Press, 1983.
Doran, M. Endeavors of Art: A Study of Form in Elizabethan Drama, 1954.
Fergusson, Francis. The Idea of a Theater. Garden City, NJ: Doubleday, 1953.
Fumerton, Patricia. Cultural Aesthetics: Renaissance Literature and the Practice of Social Ornament. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991.
Gibbons, Brian. Jacobean City Comedy: A Study of Satiric Plays by Jonson, Marston, and Middleton. Cambridge: Harvard U P, 1968.
Greenblatt, S. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare, 1980.
Griswold, Wendy. Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theatre, 1576-1980. Chicago: The U of Chicago P, 1986.
Hall, K. Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England, 1996.
Harrison, G. B. The Elizabethan Journals, 1955.
Hill, James. “What, Are They Children?” Studies in English Literature 26 (1986), 235-58.
Hornby, Richard. Drama, Metadrama and Perception. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 1986.
Howard, Jean. The Stage and Social Struggle in Early Modern England, 1994.
James I. Book of Sport or The King’s Majesties Declaration to His Subjects, concerning lawfull Sports to be used. London: 1618.
Jardine, Lisa. “Boy Actors, Female Roles, and Elizabethan Eroticism.” In Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. Ed. David Scott Kastan and Peter Stallybrass. New York: Routledge, 1991. 57-67.
Jardine, Lisa. Still Harping on Daughters: Women and Drama in the Age of Shakespeare. 2nd Edition. New York: Columbia UP, 1989.
Kantorowicz, E.H. The King’s Two Bodies, 1957.
Kastan, David Scott and Peter Stallybrass, eds. Staging the Renaissance: Reinterpretations of Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama. New York: Routledge, 1991.
Kittredge, G.L. Witchcraft in Old and New England, 1956.
Levin, Richard. New Readings Vs. Old Plays. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1979.
Levin, Richard. The Multiple Plot in English Renaissance Drama. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1971.
Maus, Katherine E. Inwardness and Theater in the English Renaissance. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.
McDonald, Russ. Shakespeare & Jonson, Jonson & Shakespeare. U Nebraska Press, 1988.
McLuskie, Katherine. “The Act, the Role, and the Actor: Boy Actresses on the Elizabethan Stage.” New Theater Quarterly 3 (1987): 120-130.
Montaigne, Michel de. The Essayes of Michael Lord of Montaigne. Tr. John Florio. 1603. Ed. Sir John Lubbock. London: George Routledge and Sons, 1891.
Mora, G. ed. Witches, Devils, and Doctors in the Renaissance. 1991.
Motter, T.H. Vail. The School Drama in England. 1929. Port Washington, NY: Kennikat P, 1968.
Mullaney, Steven. The Place of the Stage. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988.
Murray, Tim. Theatrical Legitimation: Allegories of Genius. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1987.
Newman, Karen. Fashioning Femininity and English Renaissance Drama. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1991.
Orgel, Stephen. The Illusion of Power: Political Theater in the Renaissance. Berkeley, 1975.
Orgel, Stephen. “Nobody’s Perfect; or, Why Did the English Stage Take Boys for Women?” South Atlantic Quarterly 88 (1989): 7-30.
Parry, G. The Golden Age Restor’d: The Culture of the Stuart Court, 1602-1642, 1981.
Parry, Graham. The Seventeenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of English Literature 1603-1700. Longman, 1989.
Paster, Gail Kern. The Body Embarrassed: Drama and the Disciplines of Shame in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1993.
Paster, Gail Kern. The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare. Athens, GA: U of Georgia P, 1985.
Patterson, Annabel. Shakespeare and the Popular Voice, 1989.
Pinciss, G.M. and R. Lockyer(eds.). Shakespeare's World, 1995.
Prior, Moody E. The Drama of Power: Studies in Shakespeare's History Plays, 1973.
Rackin, Phyllis. “Androgyny, Mimesis, and the Marriage of the Boy Heroine on the Renaissance Stage.” Publications of the Modern Language Association 102 (1987): 29-41.
Rose, Mary Beth. The Expense of Spirit: Love and Sexuality in English Renaissance Drama. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1988.
Salgado, G. The Elizabethan Underworld, 1977.
Shapiro, Michael. “Lady Mary Wroth Describes a ‘Boy Actress.’” Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England 4 (1989): 187-94.
Shapiro, Michael. “The Casting of Flute: Planes of Illusion in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Bartholomew Fair:” Elizabethan Theater XXIII.
Shapiro, Michael. Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage: Boy Heroines and Female Pages. Ann Arbor: U of Michigan Press, 1995.
Stone, L. The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641, 1965.
Stone, L. The Family, Sex, and Marriage in England 1500-1800, 1977.
Tillyard, E.M. The Elizabethan World Picture, 1943.
Turner, Victor. From Ritual to Theatre: The Human Seriousness of Play. New York: Performing Arts Journal Publications, 1982.
Weimann Robert. Shakespeare and the Popular Tradition in the Theater. Baltimore, 1978.
Wikander, M. H. The Play of Truth and State, 1986.
Wills, G. Witches and Jesuits, 1995.
Wilshire, Bruce. Role Playing and Identity: The Limits of Theatre as Metaphor. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1982.
Wright, L. B. Middle Class Culture in Elizabethan England, 1958.
Yachnin, Paul. “The Powerless Theater.” English Literary Renaissance 21 (1991): 49-74.
Yates, Frances A. Theatre of the World. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1969.
Zimmerman, Susan, ed. Erotic Politics: Desire on the Renaissance Stage. New York: Routledge, 1992.
A selection of Shakespeare/Jonson comparative studies:
Baker, Christopher. “The Alchemist and Shakespeare's Sonnet 129.” Notes and Queries 40 (1993): 211-12.
Bartolovich, Crystal. “Afterlife.” Shakespeare Studies 30 (2002): 36-42.
Bednarz, James P. “Shakespeare's Purge of Jonson: the Literary Context of Troilus and Cressida.” Shakespeare Studies 21 (1993): 175-21.
Bentley, Gerald Eades. Shakespeare and Jonson: Their Reputations in the Seventeenth Century Compared. 2 vols. Chicago: U Chicago P, 1945.
Bevington, David. “Varieties of Historicism: ‘Beyond the infinite and boundless reach’". Modern Philology 93 (Aug. '95): 73-88.
Craig, D. H. “Authorial styles and the Frequencies of Very Common Words: Jonson, Shakespeare, and the Additions to The Spanish Tragedy.” Style (DeKalb, Ill.) 26 (1992): 199-220.
DeStefano, Barbara L. “Ben Jonson's Eulogy on Shakespeare: Native Maker and the Triumph of English.” Studies in Philology 90 (1993): 231-45.
Donaldson, Ian. "'Not of an Age': Jonson, Shakespeare, and the Verdicts of Posterity." In New Perspectives on Ben Jonson, Ed. James Hirsh. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1997: 197-214.
Farley-Hills, David. “Another Jonson Allusion to Shakespeare?” Notes and Queries 47.4 (2000): 473-5.
Gras, Henk. “Twelfth Night, Every Man Out of his Humour, and the Middle Temple Revels of 1597-98.” The Modern Language Review 84 (1989): 545-64.
Harbage, Alfred. Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 1952.
Kernan, Alvin. “Shakespeare and Jonson’s View of Public Theatre Audiences,” In Jonson and Shakespeare. Ed. Ian Donaldson. Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities Press, 1983: 74-88.
Leonard, Nancy S. “Shakespeare and Jonson Again: The Comic Forms.” Renaissance Drama 10 (1979): 45-69.
Levin, Harry. “Two Magian Comedies: The Tempest and The Alchemist.” Shakespeare Survey 22 (1969): 47-58.
Lyon, John. “The Test of Time: Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne.” Essays in Criticism 49.1 (1999): 1-21.
Lyons, Charles R. “Silent Women and Shrews: Eroticism and Convention in Epicoene and Measure for Measure.” Comparative Drama 23 (1989) p. 123-40.
MacDonald, Joyce Green. “‘The Force of Imagination': The Subject of Blackness in Shakespeare, Jonson, and Ravenscroft.” Renaissance Papers (1991): 53-74. (CB361 .S68x 1991)
Miller, Anthony. “Jonson's praise of Shakespeare and Cicero's De Oratore, III.vii.” Notes and Queries 38 (1991): 82-3.
Ornstein, Robert. “Shakespearean and Jonsonian Comedy.” Shakespeare Survey 22 (1969):43-46.
Roy, Joseph T., Jr., Evans, Robert C. “Fane on Jonson and Shakespeare.” Notes and Queries 41 (1994): 156-8.
Scott-Warren, Jason. “When Theaters Were Bear-Gardens; or, What's at Stake in the Comedy of Humors.” Shakespeare Quarterly 54.1 (2003): 63-82.
Tyson, Brian F. “Ben Jonson's Black Comedy: A Connection between Othello and Volpone.” Shakespeare Quarterly 29.1 (1978): 60-66.
