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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
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
2873 - The morality of Shakespeare's drama. - 1775
6059 - Shakespeare : his religious and moral sentiments. - 1874
6060 - Shakespeare : his religious and moral sentiments. - 1874
25417 - Remarks on the moral influence of Shakspeare's plays : with illustrations from Hamlet / by the Rev. Thomas Grinfield, M.A. - 1850
57033 - Shakespeare's morals : selections with collatoral readings and scriptural references. - 1880
57033 - Shakespeare's morals : with scriptural references. - 1880
57041 - An inquiry into the philosophy and religion of Shakspere. By W.J. Birch ... - 1848
57224 - The real religion of Shakespeare ... : also an essay on Prospero and his philosophy. To which is added a lecture concerning Jacob Behmen in which that celebrated mystic is considered from the point of view of the "New Church". - 1872
57339 - On the moral dignity of the Shakspearian drama. - 1858
57339 - On the moral dignity of the Shaksperian drama. - 1858
57983 - Moral ideals of Shakspeare. - 1864
63730 - Shakespeare's morals : selections with collatoral readings and scriptural references. - 1879
66532 - Shakespeare and the rose of love : a study of the early plays in relation to the medieval philosophy of love. - 1960
76412 - The religion and morality of Shakespeare's works : being a lecture delivered before the Sunday lecture society, the 16th of November, 1873. - 1873
103968 - Shakespeare versus Ingersoll ... - 1888
105367 - Key-notes of Shakespeare's plays ... : The tempest. - 1885
106395 - God in Shakspeare / by Clelia [pseud.] ... - 1890
109099 - Illustrations of Aristotle on men and manners, from the dramatic works of Shakespeare. - 1832
113760 - Shakespeare : an address delivered to the Positivist Society of London, on the 2nd of August, 1885 (18 Dante 97), at Stratford-on-Avon. - 1885
135271 - The Shakspearean reconciliation : a lecture. - 1893
141254 - The light of Shakespeare. - 1897
146945 - The religion of Shakespeare / chiefly from the writings of the late Mr. Richard Simpson, M.A. by Henry Sebastian Bowden. - 1899
147804 - Studies in religion from Shakespeare. - 1899
156283 - The poet-priest : Shakespearian sermons ...
169669 - God in Shakspeare : the course of the poet's spiritual life with his reflections thereon and his resultant conception of his world-personality, inductively established from his text. - 1901
174204 - Shakespeare's portrayal of the moral life / by Frank Chapman Sharp ... - 1902
176799 - The moral system of Shakespeare; - 1903
190632 - Great books : Bunyan, Shakespeare, Dante, Milton, The imitation etc ... / by the Very Rev. F.W. Farrar. - 1898
264250 - Shakespeare's religion. - 1916
299404 - Shakespeare : his ethical teaching. - n d
311420 - The religion of Shakespeare / by George Seibel. - 1924
312545 - Shakespeare & spiritual life / by John Masefield ... delivered in the Sheldonian theatre, 4 June, 1924. - 1924
362874 - Shakespeare and scripture : [a collection of quotations from Shakespeare, with references to the Bible : intended to show how Shakespeare was indebted to the Bible]. - 1929
362874 - Shakespeare and scripture : [a collection of quotations from Shakespeare, with references to the Bible : intended to show how Shakespeare was indebted to the Bible]. - 1929
373711 - Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker : a popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy : [a re-issue of "The moral system of Shakespeare]. - 1912
383762 - Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker : a popular illustration of fiction as the experimental side of philosophy / by Richard G. Moulton. - 1924
399216 - Christ in Shakespeare : ten addresses on moral and spiritual elements in some of the greater plays / by George H. Morrison. - 1928
432016 - Shakespeare's religion. - 1935
440968 - The moral tone of Jacobean and Caroline drama ... / door Johannes Adam Bastiaenen. - 1930
472128 - Shakespeare's philosophical patterns / [by] Walter Clyde Curry. - 1937
484522 - Shakespearean selves; an essay in ethics / by Arthur Temple Cadoux. - 1938
491998 - Shakespeare as a dramatic thinker. - c1907
504947 - For love of England : Christian citizenship lessons for boys and girls, based on plays of W. Shakespeare : concerning Shakespeare and drink, Shakespeare and gambling, Shakespeare and love of country. - 1939
577764 - Renaissance ideal : a lecture on Shakespeare. - 1944
583349 - As they liked it; an essay on Shakespeare and morality / by Alfred Harbage. - 1947
585177 - Musings on Shakespeare. - 1922
605572 - Shakespeare's world of images; the development of his moral ideas. - 1949
608970 - The great theme in Shakespeare. - 1949
610453 - William Shakespeare, thinker. - 1946
632614 - The philosophy of Shakespeare. - 1953
647413 - Shakespeare, spokesman of the third estate. / [English translation by R. I. Christophersen]. - 1954
647416 - Spiritual values in Shakespeare. - 1955
665325 - Shakespeare and the natural condition. - 1956
665358 - Shakespeare the medievalist. - 1955
665716 - The voice of Shakespeare ... - 1957
665978 - Shakespeare's religious frontier. - 1958
666014 - The Shakespearean ethic. - 1959
666437 - Shakespeare's philosophical patterns. - 1959
666532 - Shakespeare and the rose of love. A study of the early plays in relation to the medieval philosophy of love by John Vyvyan. - 1960
666749 - Shakespeare and the Renaissance concept of honor / by Curtis Brown Watson. - 1960
666789 - Shakespeare and our world ... - 1957
666829 - Hippolyta's view; some Christian aspects of Shakespeare's plays. - 1961
666944 - Philosophy in Shakespeare / by Bertram Emil Jessup. - 1959
667413 - The Christian renaissance : with interpretations of Dante, Shakespeare, and Goethe, and a note on T.S. Eliot / by G. Wilson Knight ... - 1933
667417 - Character & symbol in Shakespeare's plays : a study of certain Christian and pre-Christian elements in their structure and imagery. - 1962
667814 - Shakespeare and Christian doctrine. - 1963
667829 - Shakespeare's prophetic mind. - 1964
741028 - Revelation in Shakespeare; a study of the supernatural, religious and spiritual elements in his art / by R.W.S. Mendl. - 1964
746859 - Shakespeare's art as order of life. - 1965
751998 - Shakespeare in the light of sacred art. - 1966
757124 - Dualities in Shakespeare. - 1966
762034 - Shakespeare and religion: essays of forty years / by G. Wilson Knight. - 1967
763607 - Shakespeare on conscience and justice / [By] G.S.Ghurye. - 1965
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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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