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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
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
132528 - "Shakespeare on Horseback" ; and, "Shakespeare no Dog Fancier". - 1892
135607 - Shakespeare's twilights / comp. by S.F. Price ; with illustrations by W. P. Chaloner and H. P. Barnes. - 1892
175652 - Shakespeare's garden / by J. Harvey Bloom. - 1903
363010 - Shakespeare and science; a study of Shakespeare's interest in, and literary and dramatic use of, natural phenomena; with an account of the astronomy, astrology, and alchemy of his day, and his attitude towards these sciences. / By Cumberland Clark. - 1929
431750 - Meteorology in Shakespeare : an attempt to prove the poet's success as an observer of meteorological phenomena, by quotations from his works. - 1934
p 320691 - Nature in Shakespeare. - 1922
p 389208 - Shakespeare's summer. - 1910
.1 3310 - Shaksperean bouquet : the flowers and plants of Shakspere. - 1872
.1 4090 - The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare / by Rev. Henry N. Ellacombe. - pref 1878
.1 54698 - The Shakspere flora. A guide to all the principal passages in which mention is made of trees, plants, flowers, and vegetable productions; with comments and botanical particulars. / By Leo H. Grindon. - 1883
.1 71417 - "Viola," the flowers of Shakspeare. - 1883
.1 100627 - The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare. / By Rev. Henry N. Ellacombe. - 1884
.1 113483 - Shakspere's garden, or, The plants and flowers named in his works described and defined / with notes and illustrations from the works of other writers ; by Sidney Beisly. - 1864
.1 211741 - Shakespeare's garden, with reference to over a hundred plants. - 1906
.1 213922 - The plant-lore and garden-craft of Shakespeare / by Henry N. Ellacombe. - 1896
.1 295801 - Shakespeare's garden, with reference to over a hundred plants. - 1903
.1 303463 - The Shakespeare garden / by Esther Singleton, with numerous illustrations from photographs and reproductions of old wood cuts. - 1922
.1 306501 - The Shakespeare garden : with numerous illustrations from photographs and reproductions of old wood cuts. - 1923
.1 307507 - The flora & folk lore of Shakespeare,. - 1923
.1 307507 - The flora and folk lore of Shakespeare / by F.G. Savage. - c1923
.1 386761 - The Shakspere flora : a guide to all the principal passages in which mention is made of trees, plants, flowers, and vegetable productions, with comments and botanical particulars / [illustrated by T. Letherbrow]. - 1883
.1 391269 - The Shakespeare garden. Illustrated from photos. and old wood cuts. - 1931
.1 398227 - The Shakespeare garden / illustrated from photographs and old woodcuts ; [with an introduction by Eva T. Clark]. - 1931
.1 435628 - Shakespeare garden and wayside flowers : with appropriate quotations for every flower ; a complete and authentic guide to Shakespeare flora / by W. Foxton. - 1934
.1 443234 - Shakespeare's wild flowers; fairy lore, gardens, herbs, gatherers of simples and bee lore / by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde. - 1935
.1 596186 - Woodbine and honeysuckle : [an interpretation of a passage from A midsummer night's dream]. - 1946
.01 644909 - Weather in William Shakespeare's plays. - 1953
.1 667083 - The meaning of strawberries in Shakespeare. - 1961
.01 Q 667869 - Word and image : desert and storm [in "Macbeth" and "King Lear"] / produced by Patricia Owtram ; ITV script transmitted for TV 11th February 1963.
.1 p 147849 - Shakespeare's wild-flowers. - 1893
.1 p 182838 - Canker-Blooms. - 1904
.01 p 236692 - Shakespeare's cloudscapes. - 1912
.1 p 305535 - The flowers of Shakespeare. - 1922
.1 p 324685 - Botany in Shakespeare. - 1925
.1 p 389222 - The gardens of Chaucer and Shakespeare. - 1911
.1 p 421735 - Shakespeare's roses. - 1934
.1 p 437095 - Shakespeare's wild flowers. - 1935
.2 2800 - Letters on the natural history of the insects mentioned in Shakspeare's plays : with incidental notices of the entomology of Ireland / by Robert Patterson. - 1838
.2 7362 - The natural history of the insects mentioned in Shakspeare's plays : with upwards of eighty illustrations / by Robert Patterson. - 1841
.2 60298 - The zoology of the English poets : corrected by the writings of modern naturalists. - 1845
.2 62136 - The animal-lore of Shakespeare's time : including quadruped, birds, reptiles, fish, and insects / Emma Phipson. - 1883
.2 132528 - "Shakespeare on horseback" and "Shakespeare no dog-fancier". - 1892
.2 263471 - Shakespeare and democracy / by Edward Salmon. - 1916
.2 590617 - Animal analogy in Shakespeare's character portrayal : as shown in his reflection of the Aesopian tradition and the animal aspect of physiognomy. - 1947
.2 603147 - Shakespeare and the animals ... - 1949
.2 p 92927 - "Shakespeare on horseback" : paper read at the Union Club, Stratford-on-Avon, March 3rd, 1887 / by C.E. Flower. - 1887
.2 p 530215 - The compassionate onlooker William Shakespeare ... - 1941
.02 p 596567 - The geology of Shakespeare. - 1947
.07 226528 - Shakespeare's sea terms explained / by W. B. Whall, master mariner. - 1910
.07 667811 - Shakespeare and the sea. - 1964
.07 p 389211 - Shakespeare and the sea. - 1910
.07 p 512571 - Was Shakespeare a seaman?. - 1939
.13 p 219383 - The birds of Shakespeare. - 1909
.21 p 468014 - Shakespeare and the horse ... - April 1912
.23 57060 - The ornithology of Shakespeare : critically examined, explained, and illustrated / B James Edmund Harting. - 1871
.23 265749 - The birds of Shakespeare / by Sir Archibald Geikie. - 1916
.23 357254 - Shakespeare's songsters and other birds : with over one hundred references / by Leonard Holmesworthe. - 1905
.23 439152 - Shakespeare's birds. - 1931
.23 487928 - Shakespeare and the birds : [drawings illustrating quotations from Shakespeare]. - 1938
.23 642669 - The birds of Shakespeare. - 1953
.23 666908 - Shakespeare's birds. - 1958
.23 753996 - The birds of Shakespeare; or The ornithology of Shakespeare, critically examined, explained and illustrated. Including Of men and birds / prolegomena to the birds of Shakespeare, by Grundy Steiner. - 1965
.23 F 527552 - The crows of Shakespeare / by J.B. [Mrs. Hugh Blackburn]. - 1899
.24 p 416888 - Did Shakespeare keep bees?. - 1934
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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