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Expand 0 - Reference works0 - Reference works
Expand 1 - Collected editions of the works1 - Collected editions of the works
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401 - General Histories of Literature and the Drama
Expand 401.1 - General Histories of the Comic401.1 - General Histories of the Comic
Expand 402 - General Histories of English Literature402 - General Histories of English Literature
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403 - Pre Shakespeare Drama
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Expand 403.301 - Pre Shakespeare drama Texts403.301 - Pre Shakespeare drama Texts
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404 - Elizabethan and Jacobean literature (this may include some account of the earlier literature)
Expand 404.1 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Prose literature404.1 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Prose literature
Expand 404.01 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Texts - collections404.01 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Texts - collections
Expand 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. - 1878404.01 - 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
Expand 404.2 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry404.2 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry
Expand 404.3 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama404.3 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama
Expand 404.9 - Biographies of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers404.9 - Biographies of Elizabethan and Jacobean writers
Expand 404.31 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedy404.31 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Comedy
Expand 404.32 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Historical Drama404.32 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Historical Drama
Expand 404.33 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy404.33 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedy
Expand 404.101 - Elizabethan and Jacobean literature Texts404.101 - Elizabethan and Jacobean literature Texts
Expand 404.201 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry Texts404.201 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry Texts
Expand 404.301 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama Texts404.301 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama Texts
Expand 405 - Restoration and Eighteenth-century literature405 - Restoration and Eighteenth-century literature
Expand 406 - Nineteenth-century English literature406 - Nineteenth-century English literature
Expand 407 - Twentieth-century English literature407 - Twentieth-century English literature
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410 - History of English Literary Shakespearian Criticism - General Works
Expand 410.01 - Theory and Principle of Shakespearian criticism410.01 - Theory and Principle of Shakespearian criticism
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411 - Works on Shakespearian critics and criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Expand 411.2 - Works on Johnson411.2 - Works on Johnson
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412 - Works on Shakespearian critics and criticism of the Nineteenth-century
Expand 412.1 - Works on Coleridge412.1 - Works on Coleridge
Expand 412.2 - Works on Hazlitt412.2 - Works on Hazlitt
Expand 412.9 - Works on other 19th century Shakespearian critics412.9 - Works on other 19th century Shakespearian critics
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413 - Works on Shakespearian criticism of the Twentieth-century
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413.5 - Post-colonial criticism
Expand 413.9 - Minor Criticism (incl. feminist criticism)413.9 - Minor Criticism (incl. feminist criticism)
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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
Expand 415.1 - Sermons415.1 - Sermons
Expand 415.2 - Orations, broadcasts and general lectures on Shakespeare415.2 - Orations, broadcasts and general lectures on Shakespeare
Expand 415.3 - General single essays415.3 - General single essays
Expand 416 - 17th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism416 - 17th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism
Expand 417 - 18th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism417 - 18th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism
Expand 418 - 19th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism418 - 19th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism
Expand 419 - 20th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism419 - 20th Century - General Works of Shakespearian criticism
Expand 430 - Language and Literary Style - General Works (incl. origins and language style)430 - Language and Literary Style - General Works (incl. origins and language style)
Expand 431 - Pronunciation and Phonology431 - Pronunciation and Phonology
Expand 432 - Punctuation and Spelling432 - Punctuation and Spelling
Expand 433 - Grammar, Syntax and Idioms433 - Grammar, Syntax and Idioms
Expand 434 - Use of Dialect and Slang - bawdry434 - Use of Dialect and Slang - bawdry
Expand 435 - Prose and Poetry435 - Prose and Poetry
Expand 436 - Rhetoric - nostalgia as rhetoric - oaths, homophones and swearing, wordplay, asteisms436 - Rhetoric - nostalgia as rhetoric - oaths, homophones and swearing, wordplay, asteisms
Expand 437 - Imagery (metaphor) Trope437 - Imagery (metaphor) Trope
Expand 438 - Satire, Wit and Humour, Puns, Euphemism, proverbs and adages438 - Satire, Wit and Humour, Puns, Euphemism, proverbs and adages
Expand 439 - Other aspects (incl. method of Work, Shakespeare's names, vocabulary, use of particular words, computer test of words)439 - Other aspects (incl. method of Work, Shakespeare's names, vocabulary, use of particular words, computer test of words)
Expand 440 - Dramatic Technique and Structure - General works440 - Dramatic Technique and Structure - General works
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441 - Narrative, Plots, Act and Scene Division, Unities of Time and Place, Story Telling
Expand 441.1 - Disguise plots in Shakespeare - Deception, Illusion, Metamorphosis, feigned death441.1 - Disguise plots in Shakespeare - Deception, Illusion, Metamorphosis, feigned death
Expand 442 - Textual indications of time and place - Anachronisms442 - Textual indications of time and place - Anachronisms
Expand 443 - Prologues and epilogues443 - Prologues and epilogues
Expand 444 - Songs, Acrobatics, Dances444 - Songs, Acrobatics, Dances
Expand 445 - Soliloquies Dialogue Chorus, etc.445 - Soliloquies Dialogue Chorus, etc.
Expand 446 - Tempo, Time relations, Suspense446 - Tempo, Time relations, Suspense
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447 - Particular types of scenes, speeches, speech interaction, play within a play, visual/ auditory symbolism, theatrical description/Iconoclasm
Expand 447.1 - Repetition in Shakespeare447.1 - Repetition in Shakespeare
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447.9 - Combat scenes
Expand 449 - The Comic and the Tragic in Shakespeare Melodrama -catharsis449 - The Comic and the Tragic in Shakespeare Melodrama -catharsis
Expand 450 - Characterisation - General Works ‘Doubling' characters, motivation450 - Characterisation - General Works ‘Doubling' characters, motivation
Expand 451 - On some of Shakespeare's female characters. 2, Portia. - 1881-1885451 - On some of Shakespeare's female characters. 2, Portia. - 1881-1885
Expand 451 - On some of Shakespeare's female characters. 3, Beatrice. - 1881-1885451 - On some of Shakespeare's female characters. 3, Beatrice. - 1881-1885
Expand 451 - Women451 - Women
Expand 452 - Soldiers and Sailors etc,452 - Soldiers and Sailors etc,
Expand 453 - The Aged and Children453 - The Aged and Children
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454 - Eccentrics
Expand 454.1 - Fools454.1 - Fools
Expand 454.2 - Mad characters454.2 - Mad characters
Expand 454.3 - Melancholics454.3 - Melancholics
Expand 454.4 - Comic characters including servants, jesters454.4 - Comic characters including servants, jesters
Expand 454.5 - Drunkards454.5 - Drunkards
Expand 454.6 - Lovers454.6 - Lovers
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455 - Shakespeare and the supernatural in general
455.1 - Witches
Expand 455.2 - Fairies455.2 - Fairies
Expand 455.3 - Ghosts455.3 - Ghosts
Expand 456 - Villains - male only - subsidiary to other types, Flatterers Hypocrites456 - Villains - male only - subsidiary to other types, Flatterers Hypocrites
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457 - Historical and Political Characters, Royalty and Nobility
Expand 457.1 - The Hero & his antagonist-motivating characters457.1 - The Hero & his antagonist-motivating characters
Expand 458 - Shakespeare and National Character458 - Shakespeare and National Character
Expand 459 - Others459 - Others
Expand 460 - The Knowledge and Philosophy of Shakespeare as reflected in his writing: General works460 - The Knowledge and Philosophy of Shakespeare as reflected in his writing: General works
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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
Expand 461.1 - Biblical knowledge, References to mercy, wisdom, eschatology, prophecy, apocalypse, Heaven and Hell461.1 - Biblical knowledge, References to mercy, wisdom, eschatology, prophecy, apocalypse, Heaven and Hell
Expand 461.2 - Shakespeare and Catholicism461.2 - Shakespeare and Catholicism
Expand 461.3 - Shakespeare and Puritanism, Protestantism461.3 - Shakespeare and Puritanism, Protestantism
Expand 461.4 - Shakespeare and Occultism, Anthropology, Pagan philosophies, Myth, Magic, Fantasy, Imagination e. g. metamorphoses461.4 - Shakespeare and Occultism, Anthropology, Pagan philosophies, Myth, Magic, Fantasy, Imagination e. g. metamorphoses
Expand 461.5 - The School of Night461.5 - The School of Night
Expand 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 behaviour461.7 - 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
Expand 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, Knowl461.9 - 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
Expand 464 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of Schools and Education464 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of Schools and Education
Expand 465 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of Domestic Life and Customs465 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of Domestic Life and Customs
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467 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of individual physhology, physiology (Human)
Expand 467.1 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of sleep, insomnia467.1 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of sleep, insomnia
Expand 468 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of natural history and phenomena468 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of natural history and phenomena
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469 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of science and medicine
Collapse 469.1 - Shakespeare's medical knowledge469.1 - Shakespeare's medical knowledge
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31977 - The medical knowledge of Shakespeare. - 1860
32445 - Address (Shakespeare from a surgeon's point of view / by J.F. West). - 1881
76406 - Shakespeare's medical knowledge. / By Charles W. Stearns, M.D. - 1865
82702 - Shakespeare as a physician. Comprising every word which in any way relates to medicine, surgery or obstetrics, found in the complete works of that writer, with criticisms and comparison of the same with the medical thoughts of to-day. / By J. Portman Chesney ... - 1884
83458 - Medical thoughts of Shakespeare. - 1884
92445 - William Shakespeare from a surgeon's point of view. - 1881
94742 - Shakspere and the medical sciences. - 1887
137643 - Medicine & kindred arts in the plays of Shakespeare / by John Moyes. - 1896
145279 - Medical notes about Shakespere and his times : being the Harveian address to the Edinburgh Society, on April 12, 1875 / by J.D. Gillespie ... - 1875
148752 - Shakespeare and the Medical Society. - 1899
269910 - Shakespeare and medicine : Being the annual oration of the Medical Society of London, 1916. - 1916
402815 - William Shakespeare, M. D. / by Harry B. Epstein, M. D. - c1932
417049 - Doctors in Elizabethan drama / by Macleod Yearsley ... - 1933
632717 - Medicine in the days and plays of Shakespeare. - 1952
665742 - Scabies and the Queen Mab passage in Romeo and Juliet. - 1957
666120 - Shakespeare and medicine. - 1959
766274 - Medicine in the Shakespearean plays and era. - 1934
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Expand 469.2 - Shakespeare's knowledge of astonomy and astology469.2 - Shakespeare's knowledge of astonomy and astology
Expand 471 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of the arts including music and aesthetics471 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of the arts including music and aesthetics
Expand 473 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of heraldry and genealogy473 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of heraldry and genealogy
Expand 474 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of folklore474 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of folklore
Expand 475 - Shakespeare's knowledge of contemporary events and the idea of history in events rather than sources475 - Shakespeare's knowledge of contemporary events and the idea of history in events rather than sources
Expand 476 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of topography, travel476 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of topography, travel
Expand 477 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of topography, geography477 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of topography, geography
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479 - Literature: Shakespeare's sources
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Expand 479.1 - Shakespeare's text sources479.1 - Shakespeare's text sources
Expand 479.2 - Shakespeare's classical sources479.2 - Shakespeare's classical sources
Expand 479.3 - Shakespeare's foreign sources479.3 - Shakespeare's foreign sources
Expand 479.4 - Shakespeare's English sources479.4 - Shakespeare's English sources
Expand 479.41 - Shakespeare's souces: Emblem books479.41 - Shakespeare's souces: Emblem books
Expand 479.42 - Shakespeare's souces: Jest books479.42 - Shakespeare's souces: Jest books
480 - Shakespeare and English Literature
Expand 481 - Comparisons with Pre-Shakespearian Literature481 - Comparisons with Pre-Shakespearian Literature
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482 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature Shakespeare and his contemporaries
Expand 482.2 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry and Shakespeare482.2 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Poetry and Shakespeare
Expand 482.3 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama and Shakespeare482.3 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama and Shakespeare
Expand 482.11 - Bacon and Shakespeare.482.11 - Bacon and Shakespeare.
Expand 482.24 - Milton and Shakespeare482.24 - Milton and Shakespeare
Expand 482.26 - Sidney and Shakespeare482.26 - Sidney and Shakespeare
Expand 482.27 - Spenser and Shakespeare482.27 - Spenser and Shakespeare
Expand 482.29 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Minor prose writers and Shakespeare482.29 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Minor prose writers and Shakespeare
Expand 482.31 - Marlowe and Shakespeare482.31 - Marlowe and Shakespeare
Expand 482.32 - Jonson and Shakespeare482.32 - Jonson and Shakespeare
Expand 482.33 - Beaumont and Fletcher and Shakespeare482.33 - Beaumont and Fletcher and Shakespeare
Expand 482.35 - Heywood and Shakespeare482.35 - Heywood and Shakespeare
Expand 482.36 - Lyly and Shakespeare482.36 - Lyly and Shakespeare
Expand 482.39 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Minor dramatic writers and Shakespeare482.39 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Minor dramatic writers and Shakespeare
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483 - Shakespeare and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature
Expand 483.1 - Shakespeare and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Prose483.1 - Shakespeare and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Prose
Expand 483.3 - Shakespeare and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama483.3 - Shakespeare and Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama
484 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Literature
Expand 484.1 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Prose484.1 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Prose
484.2 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Poetry
Expand 484.3 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Drama484.3 - Shakespeare and Nineteenth Century Drama
Expand 484.13 - Dickens and Shakespeare484.13 - Dickens and Shakespeare
Expand 484.15 - George Eliot and Shakespeare484.15 - George Eliot and Shakespeare
Expand 484.17 - Scott and Shakespeare484.17 - Scott and Shakespeare
Expand 484.21 - Keats and Shakespeare484.21 - Keats and Shakespeare
Expand 484.22 - Byron and Shakespeare484.22 - Byron and Shakespeare
Expand 485 - Shakespeare and Twentieth Century Literature485 - Shakespeare and Twentieth Century Literature
Expand 488 - Shakespeare and the Renaissance488 - Shakespeare and the Renaissance
Expand 489 - Shakespeare and Classical Literature compared489 - Shakespeare and Classical Literature compared
490 - Shakespeare and Foreign Literature - The Influence and Appreciation of Shakespeare Abroad - General Works & Criticism
Expand 491 - Shakespeare In U.S.A. and Canada491 - Shakespeare In U.S.A. and Canada
Expand 492 - Shakespeare In Germany492 - Shakespeare In Germany
Expand 493 - Shakespeare In France493 - Shakespeare In France
Expand 494 - Shakespeare In Italy494 - Shakespeare In Italy
Expand 495 - In Other European Countries495 - In Other European Countries
Expand 495 - Shakespeare In Spain, Portugal and South America495 - Shakespeare In Spain, Portugal and South America
Expand 497 - Shakespeare in In the Far East497 - Shakespeare in In the Far East
Expand 498 - Shakespeare in In the U.S.S.R.498 - Shakespeare in In the U.S.S.R.
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Expand 5 - Literary criticism of the separate plays and the poems, and certain groups of the Plays5 - Literary criticism of the separate plays and the poems, and certain groups of the Plays
Expand 6 - The stage and the production of Shakespeare’s Plays6 - The stage and the production of Shakespeare’s Plays
Expand 7 - Music and pictorial art7 - Music and pictorial art
Expand 8 - Textual history: printing, editing and translation of the text8 - Textual history: printing, editing and translation of the text
Expand 9 - Biographical appendix - Shakespeare’s life and times9 - Biographical appendix - Shakespeare’s life and times
Expand 10 - English Shakespeariana10 - English Shakespeariana
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