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Shakespeare - The Birmingham Shakespeare Collection - 16th - 21st Century
1 - English Works
0 - Reference works
1 - Collected editions of the works
2 - Selections of the works
4 - General literary history and criticism
401
401 - General Histories of Literature and the Drama
401.1 - General Histories of the Comic
402 - General Histories of English Literature
403
403 - Pre Shakespeare Drama
403.101
403.301 - Pre Shakespeare drama Texts
404
404 - Elizabethan and Jacobean literature (this may include some account of the earlier literature)
404.1 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Prose literature
404.01 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Texts - collections
404.01 - The school of Shakspere. Vol. 1, Histrio-Mastix ; The prodigal son ; Jack Drums entertainment ; A warning for faire women ; Faire Em. ; An account of Robert Greene, and his attacks on Shakspere and the players ; Index and glossary. - 1878
404.2 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry
404.3 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
404.9 - Biographies of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers
404.31 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedy
404.32 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Historical Drama
404.33 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy
404.101 - Elizabethan and Jacobean literature Texts
404.201 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry Texts
404.301 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama Texts
405 - Restoration and Eighteenth-century literature
406 - Nineteenth-century English literature
407 - Twentieth-century English literature
410
410 - History of English Literary Shakespearian Criticism - General Works
410.01 - Theory and Principle of Shakespearian criticism
411
411 - Works on Shakespearian critics and criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
411.2 - Works on Johnson
412
412 - Works on Shakespearian critics and criticism of the Nineteenth-century
412.1 - Works on Coleridge
412.2 - Works on Hazlitt
412.9 - Works on other 19th century Shakespearian critics
413
413 - Works on Shakespearian criticism of the Twentieth-century
413.05
413.5 - Post-colonial criticism
413.9 - Minor Criticism (incl. feminist criticism)
415
415 - General Works of Shakespearian Criticism -Retrospective Anthologies and Collections
415 - Shakespeare talks with uncritical people ... 2, Comedy of errors. - 1878
415 - Shakespeare talks with uncritical people ... 3, A midsummer night's dream. - 1878
415 - Shakespeare talks with uncritical people ... 4, Two gentlemen of Verona. - 1878
415 - Shakespeare talks with uncritical people ... 10, King John. - 1880
415 - Shakespeare talks with uncritical people ... 21, Julius Caesar. - 1885-1887
415 - Shakespeare talks with uncritical people ... 22, All's well that ends well. - 1885-1887
415 - Shakespeare talks with uncritical people ... 23 and 24, Hamlet. - 1885-1887
415.1 - Sermons
415.2 - Orations, broadcasts and general lectures on Shakespeare
415.3 - General single essays
416 - 17th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism
417 - 18th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism
418 - 19th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism
419 - 20th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism
430 - Language and Literary Style - General Works (incl. origins and language style)
431 - Pronunciation and Phonology
432 - Punctuation and Spelling
433 - Grammar, Syntax and Idioms
434 - Use of Dialect and Slang - bawdry
435 - Prose and Poetry
436 - Rhetoric - nostalgia as rhetoric - oaths, homophones and swearing, wordplay, asteisms
437 - Imagery (metaphor) Trope
438 - Satire, Wit and Humour, Puns, Euphemism, proverbs and adages
439 - Other aspects (incl. method of Work, Shakespeare's names, vocabulary, use of particular words, computer test of words)
440 - Dramatic Technique and Structure - General works
441
441 - Narrative, Plots, Act and Scene Division, Unities of Time and Place, Story Telling
441.1 - Disguise plots in Shakespeare - Deception, Illusion, Metamorphosis, feigned death
442 - Textual indications of time and place - Anachronisms
443 - Prologues and epilogues
444 - Songs, Acrobatics, Dances
445 - Soliloquies Dialogue Chorus, etc.
446 - Tempo, Time relations, Suspense
447
447 - Particular types of scenes, speeches, speech interaction, play within a play, visual/ auditory symbolism, theatrical description/Iconoclasm
447.1 - Repetition in Shakespeare
447.09
447.9 - Combat scenes
449 - The Comic and the Tragic in Shakespeare Melodrama -catharsis
450 - Characterisation - General Works ‘Doubling' characters, motivation
.01 Q 667009 - Shakespeare character commentary : an index to a segment of the Shakespeare resources of the Brooklyn College library. - 1961
2583 - Characters of Shakespeare. - 1785
2775 - Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic character of Falstaff, and on his imitation of female characters [with] observations on the study of Shakespeare. - 1789
2782 - Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic character of Falstaff, and on his imitation of female characters [with] observations on the study of Shakespeare. - 1788
2797 - Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic characters of Macbeth, Hamlet, Jaques, and Imogen. - 1785
2900 - Characters of Shakespear's plays. / By William Hazlitt. - 1817
15114 - Shakespeare-characters; chiefly those subordinate. / by Charles Cowden Clarke. - 1863
16375 - Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic characters of Richard the Third, King Lear, and Timon of Athens : [with] An essay on the faults of Shakespeare. - 1784
16376 - Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic characters : with an illustration of Shakespeare's representation of national characters, in that of Fluellen / by William Richardson. - 1812
22111 - Studies of Shakespeare in the plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As you like it, Much ado about nothing, Romeo and Juliet : with observations on the criticism and the acting of those plays / by George Fletcher. - 1847
32280 - Remarks on some of the characters of Shakespeare. / By Thomas Whately ... - 1808
33901 - Characters of Shakespear's plays. - 1818
57021 - Human life in Shakespeare. / By Henry Giles. - 1868
57043 - The psychology of Shakespeare. / By John Charles Bucknill. - 1859
57093 - Characters of Shakespeare / edited by R. Whately. - 1839
57129 - A philosophical analysis of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters. - 1774
57163 - Characters of Shakespear's plays / edited by his son. - 1848
57313 - Four lectures on Shylock, Othello, Richard II & Henry IV, King John : delivered 1835. - 1836
63701 - Essays on some of Shakespeare's dramatic characters [with] an essay on the faults of Shakespeare. - 1798
63881 - Notes on Shakspeare. No. 2, Hamlet and Ophelia. - 1877
63881 - Shakspearian notes. No. 1, The third murder in 'Macbeth'. No. 2, Hamlet and Ophelia. - 1877
91516 - Shakspeare papers. / By William Maginn, L. L. D. - 1860
97293 - Essays on some of Shakespeare's dramatic characters [with] an essay on the faults of Shakespeare. - 1797
116440 - A philosophical analysis of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters. - 1775
129932 - Shylock and other studies : eight studies. - 1894
129932 - Shylock and others : eight studies / by G. H. Radford. - 1894
135173 - Prize essays, chiefly Shaksperean studies. - 1882
164871 - Characters of Shakespeare's plays. - 1817
178717 - Characters of Shakespear's plays and lectures on the English poets. - 1903
180376 - Shakspeare papers: Pictures grave and gay. - 1859
203847 - Studies of Shakespeare's characters. - 1907
223444 - Characters of Shakespeare's plays / edited by Lobban. - 1908
268841 - Characters of Shakespear's plays / with an introduction by Quiller-Couch. - 1917
300857 - Character problems in Shakespeare's plays; a guide to the better understanding of the dramatist / by Levin L. Schucking. - 1922
300861 - King Richard II / by William Shakespeare, with a commentary and acting notes by J. A. Green. - c1922
320686 - The secondary heroes of Shakespeare. - 1921
357258 - Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic characters : with an illustration of Shakespeare's representation of national characters in Fluellen. - 1818
357614 - Characters of Shakespear's plays / edited by his son. - 1854
357615 - Essays on Shakespeare's dramatic characters of Richard the Third, King Lear, and Timon of Athens : the faults of Shakespeare and the character of Hamlet. - 1786
363099 - Lectures on the literature of the age of Elizabeth, and Characters of Shakespear's plays / By William Hazlitt. - 1870
364012 - Characters of Shakespear's plays / edited by his son. - 1838
364035 - Characters of Shakespear's plays / edited by W.C. Hazlitt. - 1869
368865 - A philosophical analysis of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters. - 1780
368866 - Shakespeare's dramatic characters. - 1784
383741 - Characters of Shakespear's plays and lectures on the English poets / [with a bibliographical note by A.W. Pollard]. - 1920
391411 - Four lectures on Shakespeare / edited with an introduction by Christopher St. John [pseud.]. - 1932
393425 - A philosophical analysis and illustration of some of Shakespeare's remarkable characters. - 1774
419440 - Lectures on the literature of the age of Elizabeth, and characters of Shakespear's plays / [edited with a preface by W.C. Hazlitt]. - 1877
473751 - The round table ; [and], Characters of Shakespear's plays / William Hazlitt. - 1936
477170 - Lectures on the literature of the age of Elizabeth and characters of Shakespeares plays. - 1897
478481 - Lectures on the literature of the age of Elizabeth, chiefly dramatic. - 1875
478482 - Characters of Shakespear's plays. - 1877
481197 - Characters of Shakespeare's plays / by William Hazlitt; with an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch. - 1929
502291 - Lectures on the literature of the age of Elizabeth, and characters of Shakespear's plays / [edited with a preface by W.C. Hazlitt]. - 1899
507967 - Characters of Shakespeare's plays / by William Hazlitt. - 1818
511995 - Lectures on the literature of the age of Elizabeth, and characters of Shakespeare's plays / William Hazlitt. - 1884
563425 - The humors & Shakespeare's characters [by] John W. Draper. - 1945
565615 - Characters of Shakespear's plays / by William Hazlitt. - 1910
597958 - Character and motive in Shakespeare : some recent appraisals examined / by J.I.M. Stewart. - 1949
620174 - Character and society in Shakespeare. - 1951
621963 - Studies of Shakespeare in the plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As you like it, Much ado about nothing, Romeo and Juliet : with observations on the criticism and the acting of those plays / by George Fletcher. - 1847
649260 - Shakespeare psychognostic : character evolution and transformation. - 1952
667411 - Character and characterization in Shakespeare; [essays]. - 1962
756373 - Shakespeare's charactery; a book of 'characters' from Shakespeare / selected and arranged by John M. Lothian, with an introductory essay. - 1966
Q - Some studies in Shakespeare. No. 2, Timon of Athens. - 1917-1918
Q - Some studies in Shakespeare. No. 3, Sir John Falstaff. - 1917-1918
Q - Some studies in Shakespeare. No. 5, The character of Hamlet. - 1917-1918
Q - Some studies in Shakespeare. No. 6, The chronology of the plays. - 1917-1918
Q 271812 - Some studies in Shakespeare. No. 1, Cassius and Brutus. - 1917-1918
p - The new study of Shakespeare. No. 3, The sun, the moon and the "Seven deadly sins" of the Shakespeare plays. - 1921-1922
451 - On some of Shakespeare's female characters. 2, Portia. - 1881-1885
451 - On some of Shakespeare's female characters. 3, Beatrice. - 1881-1885
451 - Women
452 - Soldiers and Sailors etc,
453 - The Aged and Children
454
454 - Eccentrics
454.1 - Fools
454.2 - Mad characters
454.3 - Melancholics
454.4 - Comic characters including servants, jesters
454.5 - Drunkards
454.6 - Lovers
455
455 - Shakespeare and the supernatural in general
455.1 - Witches
455.2 - Fairies
455.3 - Ghosts
456 - Villains - male only - subsidiary to other types, Flatterers Hypocrites
457
457 - Historical and Political Characters, Royalty and Nobility
457.1 - The Hero & his antagonist-motivating characters
458 - Shakespeare and National Character
459 - Others
460 - The Knowledge and Philosophy of Shakespeare as reflected in his writing: General works
461
461 - Shakespeare and (Philosophy) Religion and the Church, Moral and Religious values, man and nature - Natural Law, 'New World', Iconography, Homilies, Iconology, Iconography
461.1 - Biblical knowledge, References to mercy, wisdom, eschatology, prophecy, apocalypse, Heaven and Hell
461.2 - Shakespeare and Catholicism
461.3 - Shakespeare and Puritanism, Protestantism
461.4 - Shakespeare and Occultism, Anthropology, Pagan philosophies, Myth, Magic, Fantasy, Imagination e. g. metamorphoses
461.5 - The School of Night
461.7 - Shakespeare and Appearance and Reality, Art and Nature, Equivocation/Deceit, Dualist concepts, Deception, Lying, Detachment, Irony, Ambiguity, Existenia1iSm, Self, Being, Scepticism, Disillusion with the world, man's bestial behaviour
461.9 - Shakespeare and others subjects - Honour, Fortune, Tragedy, Chivalry, Comedy, Excellence, Reason, Beauty, Bravery, Manhood, Valour, Slander, Humanity, Continuity, Sacrifice, Uncertainty, Innocence, Paradox, Interruption, Silence, Values, Revelation, Knowl
464 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of Schools and Education
465 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of Domestic Life and Customs
467
467 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of individual physhology, physiology (Human)
467.1 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of sleep, insomnia
468 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of natural history and phenomena
469
469 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of science and medicine
469.1 - Shakespeare's medical knowledge
469.2 - Shakespeare's knowledge of astonomy and astology
471 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of the arts including music and aesthetics
473 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of heraldry and genealogy
474 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of folklore
475 - Shakespeare's knowledge of contemporary events and the idea of history in events rather than sources
476 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of topography, travel
477 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of topography, geography
479
479 - Literature: Shakespeare's sources
479.01
479.1 - Shakespeare's text sources
479.2 - Shakespeare's classical sources
479.3 - Shakespeare's foreign sources
479.4 - Shakespeare's English sources
479.41 - Shakespeare's souces: Emblem books
479.42 - Shakespeare's souces: Jest books
480 - Shakespeare and English Literature
481 - Comparisons with Pre-Shakespearian Literature
482
482 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature Shakespeare and his contemporaries
482.2 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry and Shakespeare
482.3 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama and Shakespeare
482.11 - Bacon and Shakespeare.
482.24 - Milton and Shakespeare
482.26 - Sidney and Shakespeare
482.27 - Spenser and Shakespeare
482.29 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Minor prose writers and Shakespeare
482.31 - Marlowe and Shakespeare
482.32 - Jonson and Shakespeare
482.33 - Beaumont and Fletcher and Shakespeare
482.35 - Heywood and Shakespeare
482.36 - Lyly and Shakespeare
482.39 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Minor dramatic writers and Shakespeare
483
483 - Shakespeare and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
483.1 - Shakespeare and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Prose
483.3 - Shakespeare and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama
484 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Literature
484.1 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Prose
484.2 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Poetry
484.3 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Drama
484.13 - Dickens and Shakespeare
484.15 - George Eliot and Shakespeare
484.17 - Scott and Shakespeare
484.21 - Keats and Shakespeare
484.22 - Byron and Shakespeare
485 - Shakespeare and Twentieth Century Literature
488 - Shakespeare and the Renaissance
489 - Shakespeare and Classical Literature compared
490 - Shakespeare and Foreign Literature - The Influence and Appreciation of Shakespeare Abroad - General Works & Criticism
491 - Shakespeare In U.S.A. and Canada
492 - Shakespeare In Germany
493 - Shakespeare In France
494 - Shakespeare In Italy
495 - In Other European Countries
495 - Shakespeare In Spain, Portugal and South America
497 - Shakespeare in In the Far East
498 - Shakespeare in In the U.S.S.R.
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5 - Literary criticism of the separate plays and the poems, and certain groups of the Plays
6 - The stage and the production of Shakespeare’s Plays
7 - Music and pictorial art
8 - Textual history: printing, editing and translation of the text
9 - Biographical appendix - Shakespeare’s life and times
10 - English Shakespeariana
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