Hierarchy Browser

Skip Navigation Links.
Collapse Shakespeare - The Birmingham Shakespeare Collection - 16th - 21st CenturyShakespeare - The Birmingham Shakespeare Collection - 16th - 21st Century
Collapse 1 - English Works1 - English Works
Expand 0 - Reference works0 - Reference works
Expand 1 - Collected editions of the works1 - Collected editions of the works
Expand 2 - Selections of the works2 - Selections of the works
Collapse 4 - General literary history and criticism4 - General literary history and criticism
Expand 401401
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
Expand 403403
403 - Pre Shakespeare Drama
Expand 403.101403.101
Expand 403.301 - Pre Shakespeare drama Texts403.301 - Pre Shakespeare drama Texts
Expand 404404
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
Expand 410410
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
Expand 411411
411 - Works on Shakespearian critics and criticism of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
Expand 411.2 - Works on Johnson411.2 - Works on Johnson
Expand 412412
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
Expand 413413
413 - Works on Shakespearian criticism of the Twentieth-century
Expand 413.05413.05
413.5 - Post-colonial criticism
Expand 413.9 - Minor Criticism (incl. feminist criticism)413.9 - Minor Criticism (incl. feminist criticism)
Expand 415415
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
Expand 441441
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
Expand 447447
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
Expand 447.09447.09
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
Expand 454454
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
Expand 455455
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
Expand 457457
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
Expand 461461
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
Expand 467467
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
Expand 469469
469 - Shakespeare's knowledge or philosophy of science and medicine
Expand 469.1 - Shakespeare's medical knowledge469.1 - Shakespeare's medical knowledge
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
Expand 479479
479 - Literature: Shakespeare's sources
Expand 479.01479.01
Collapse 479.1 - Shakespeare's text sources479.1 - Shakespeare's text sources
1865 - Shakspearian parallelisms collected from Sir Philip Sydney's Arcadia / [edited by Halliwell]. - 1865
1875 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Two noble kinsmen. Vol. 4, Abstract of the Teseide of Boccaccio. Chaucer's Knight's tale. - 1875
2549 - The novel from which the Merchant of Venice is taken. - 1755
2777 - Shakespear illustrated, or The novels and histories, on which the plays of Shakespear are founded / collected and translated from the original authors, with critical remarks ; by the author of the Female Quixote. - 1753-1754
2810 - Plautus, Menaeemi. - 1779
2810 - Promos and Cassandra. - 1779
2810 - Six old plays, in which Shakespeare founded his [plays]. - 1779
2810 - Taming of a shrew, 1607. - 1779
2811 - King Leir, and his three daughters : [six old plays, on which Shakspeare founded his ... King Lear, etc. / [edited by J. Nichols]. Vol. 2]. - 1779
2811 - The famous victories of Henry the Fifth [1617]. - 1779
2811 - The troublesome raigne of John, King of England. First and second part. - 1779
7377 - North's Plutarch : notes as to a copy of this work in the Greenock Library, supposed to have been Shakespeare's ... - 1871
7391 - Original story of Romeo and Juliet ... : from which Shakespeare evidently drew the subject of his drama / being the Italian text of 1530, and an English translation ... with critical preface ... notes and illustrations, by G. Pace-Sanfelice. - 1868
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : a collection of the plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare in the composition of his works : with introduction and notes. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. All's well that ends well. Vol. 3, Giletta of Narbona, from Painter's palace of pleasure. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Antony and Cleopatra. Vol. 3, The life of Antony, from North's Plutarch. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. As you like it. Vol. 2, Rosalynde: Euphues' golden legacie, by Thomas Lodge. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Comedy of errors. Vol. 1, The story of the two brothers of Avignon [from Goulart's admirable and memorable histories]. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Comedy of errors. Vol. 5, Menoechmi, translated from Plautus, by W.W. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Coriolanus. Vol. 3, The life of Coriolanus, from North's Plutarch. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Cymbeline. Vol. 2, Abstract of Boccaccio's tale of Bernabo da Genova. The account of Kymbeline, from Holinshed. The story of the Fishwife of standon-the-green, from Westward for Smelts. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Hamlet. Vol. 2, The historie of Hamblet. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Henry IV and Henry V. Vol. 1, Agincourt, the English Bowman's glory, a ballad. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Henry IV and Henry V. Vol. 5, The famous Victories of Henry V. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Henry VI., second part. Vol. 5, The first part of the contention between the Houses of York and Lancaster. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Henry VI., third part. Vol. 6, The true tragedy of Richard, Duke of York. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Henry VIII. Vol. 4, Selected passages from Holinshed's history of the reign of Henry VIII. Extract from Fox's Martyrs. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. Vol. 3, Life of Julius Caesar, from North's Plutarch. Life of Brutus, from North's Plutarch. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. King John. Vol. 5, The troublesome reign of John, King of England. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. King Lear. Vol. 2, Queen Cordela, an historical poem, by John Higins, from the Mirror for Magistrates. The story of the paphlagonian Unkind King, from Sydney's Arcadia. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. King Lear. Vol. 2, The history of Lear, from Holinshed. The history of Lear, from the English gesta romanorum. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. King Lear. Vol. 6, The history of Leir and his three daughters, a play. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Love's labour's lost. Vol. 1, The story of Charles, King of Navarre, from Monstrelet. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Macbeth. Vol. 2, The history of Makbeth, from Holinshed. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Measure for measure. Vol. 3, The same, in prose, from Whetstone's Heptameron, 1582. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Measure for measure. Vol. 6, History of Promos and Cassandra, by George Whetstone. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Merchant of venice. Vol. 1, The adventures of Giannetto, from the Pecorone of Ser Giovanni Fiorentino. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Merry wives of windsor. Vol. 3, The story of Filenio Sisterna of Bologna, from Straparola. The story of Bucciolo and Peitro Paulo, from the Pecorone. The story of Lucius and Camillus. The story of Nerino of Portugal. The tale of the Two lovers of Pisa. The Fishwife's tale of Brentford. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Merry wives of windsor. Vol. 6, The first sketch of the play. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Midsummer night's dream. Vol. 1, The life of Theseus, from North's Plutarch. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Much ado about nothing. Vol. 3, The story of Ariodanto and Genevra, from Harington's Ariosto. The story of S. Timbreo di Cardona, from Bandello. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Othello. Vol. 2, The story of a Moorish captain, from the Hecatommithi of Giraldi Cinthio. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Pericles. Vol. 4, Apollonius of Tyre, from Gower's Confessio Amantis. The Patterne of Painfull adventures, a novel formed from Gower and other sources, by Lawrence Twine, 1576. The life of Pericles, from North's Plutarch. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Richard III. Vol. 5, The true tragedy of Richard III. Legge's Richardus Tertius. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet. Vol. 1, Romeus and Juliet, a poem, by Arthur Broke. Rhomeo and Julietta, from Painter's palace of pleasure. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Taming of a shrew. Vol. 4, Story of the Induction, from Goulart's Admirable and memorable histories, 1607. The waking man's fortune, a fragment of an old story-book. The shrewd and curst wife Lapped in Morel's skin, a poem. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Taming of a shrew. Vol. 6, The old comedy of the Taming of a shrew. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. The tempest. Vol. 4, Search for the Island of Lampedusa, from Harington's Ariosto. The origin of the "Speech of Gonzalo", from a passage in Florio's Montaigne, 1603. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. The winter's tale. Vol. 4, The history of Pandosto, by Robert Greene. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Timon of Athens. Vol. 4, The life of Timon, from Painter's palace of pleasure. Account of Timon, From Sir Richard Barckley's Felicity of man. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Timon of Athens. Vol. 6, Timon, a play anterior to Shakespeare's. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Twelfth night. Vol. 1, History of Apollonius and Silla, by Barnaby Rich. - 1875
19079 - Shakespeare's Library : plays, romances, novels, poems, and histories employed by Shakespeare. Two gentlemen of Verona. Vol. 1, The story of the Shepherdess Felismena, from the Diana of Montemayor. - 1875
19698 - The Moor of Venice. Cinthio's tale and Shakspere's tragedy. / By John Edward Taylor. - 1855
26642 - The troublesome raigne of John, King of England. First and second part. - 1764
57040 - Shakespeare's Plutarch ; being a selection from the lives in North's Plutarch which illustrate Shakespeare's plays / ed. with a preface, notes, index of names, and glossarial index, by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat. - 1875
57279 - Fortune's tennis ball : an early English metrical version of the foundation story of Shakespeare's Winter's tale / edited by James O. Halliwell ... - 1859
57279 - Fortune's tennis ball : an early English metrical version of the foundation story of Shakespeare's Winter's tale / edited by James O. Halliwell ... - 1859
57345 - The famous victories of Henry the fifth : containing the honourable battell of Againcourt : as it was acted by the Kinges maiesties servants [ornament] / London, imprinted by Barnard Alsop, and are to be sold by Tymothie Barlow ... 1617. - 1857
57345 - The famovs victories of Henry the fifth ... / imprinted by Barnard Alsop, and are to be sold by Tymothie Barlow ... 1617. - c 1857
57349 - Shaksperian parallelisms, chiefly illustrative of The Tempest, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, from Sir P. Sydney's Arcadia. - 1865
57349 - Shaksperian parallelisms, chiefly illustrative of the Tempest and a Midsummer night's dream / [Halliwell]. - 1865
57350 - The tale of Tereus and Progne : referred to several times by Shakespeare / edited by J.O. Halliwell ... - 1866
57928 - Debate and stryfe betwene Somer and Wynter, a poetical dialogue, sixteenth century. - 1860
57928 - Debate and stryfe betwene somer and wynter / edited by Halliwell. - 1860
60558 - The taming of a shrew : London, 1594 : from the unique original in the collection of His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, K.G. - 18--
63837 - Alliterative poem on the deposition of King Richard II : Ricardi Maydiston De concordia inter Ric. II et civitatem London / edited by Thomas Wright. - 1838
69052 - The pityfull Historie of two loving Italians, Gaulfrido and Barnardo le vayne: which ariued in the countrey of Grece, in the time of the noble Emperoure Vaspasian. / And Translated out of Italian into Englishe meeter by John Drout, of Thauis Inne Gentleman. Anno. 1570. Imprinted at London by Henry Binneman, dwelling in Knightrider streete, at the signe of the Mermayde. - 1844
76514 - The Anglo-Saxon version of Apollonius of Tyre : upon which is founded the play of Pericles attributed to Shakespeare from a ms. in the library of C.C.C. Cambridge, with a literal translation, etc. - 1834
82349 - Original story of Rhomeo and Juliet. - 1750
88914 - The taming of a shrew : The first quarto, 1594. / (the play revized by another writer and Shakspere into "The taming of the shrew.") A facsimile, by photolithography, from the Duke of Devonshire's unique original, by Charles Praetorius ; with forewords by Frederick J. Furnivall. - 1886
94308 - The famous victories of Henry the Fifth / the earliest known quarto, 1598, a facsimile in foto-lithography (from the unique copy in the Bodleian Library) by Charles Praetorius ; with an introduction by P.A. Daniel. - 1887
99280 - G1' Ingannati : the deceived : a comedy, performed at Siena in 1531. - 1862
99280 - Gl'ingannati = The deceived : a comdey performed at Siena in 1531 ; and, Aelia Laelia Crispis / by T.L. Peacock. - 1862
99604 - The troublesome raigne of John, King of England : the first quarto, 1591, which Shakspere rewrote (about 1595) as his "Life and death of King John"... / a facsimile, by photolithography, from the unique original in the Capell collection at Trinity College, Cambridge, by Charles Praetorius ; with forewords by F.J. Furnivall...and a reprint of Mr. Edward Rose's paper of 1877-8 on 'Shakspere as an adapter'. - 1888
113338 - Diana. A pastoral novel. - 1737
113800 - Adventures on the black mountains : a tale upon which the plan of a couble falshood / was originally written by W. Shakespeare. - 1729
135273 - Persian tales / with notes by Clouston. The Kazi of Emessa, supposed to have been used by Shakespeare for his Merchant of Venice. - 1892
140906 - The troublesome reign of King John / ed., with an introduction by A.F. Hopkinson. - 1896
140908 - The famous victories of Henry the Fifth. - 1896
149117 - Rosalind : a novel. - 1893
149118 - Romeus and Juliet : [and, History of Hamlet]. - 1895
154514 - Shakspere's Holinshed; the Chronicle and the historical plays compared,. - 1896
201762 - Lodge's Rosalynde'; being the original of Shakespeare's 'As you like it' / ed. by W. W. Greg, M.A. - 1907
202930 - Greene's —Pandosto' or —Dorastus and Fawnia,' : being the original of Shakespeare's —Winter's tale,' / newly ed. by P. G. Thomas. - 1907
206195 - Brooke's 'Romeus and Juliet,' : being the original of Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet' / newly edited by J. J. Munro. - 1908
216315 - The chronicle history of King Leir: the original of Shakespeare's —King Lear' / ed. by Sidney Lee, LITT. D. - 1909
218650 - Shakespeare's Plutarch / ed. by C. F. Tucker Brooke. - 1909
235325 - The Menaechmi; the original of Shakespeare's "Comedy of errors";. - 1912
235736 - Rich's 'Apolonius & Silla,' : an original of Shakespeare's 'Twelfth night' / ed. by Morton Luce. - 1912
256405 - Hamlet and the Ur-Hamlet : (the text of the second quarto of 1604, with a conjectural text of the alleged Kyd Hamlet preceding it) / with an introduction by Appleton Morgan. - 1908
268553 - The thirty-third novel : [Mariotto and Giannozza] of Il Novellino of Masuccio from which is probably derived the story of Romeo and Juliet / translated etc. by Jonas.
295149 - Plutarch and Shakespeare / edited by Neil S. Snodgrass. - 19--
295149 - Plutarch and Shakespeare : [biographies from Plutarch's "Parallel Lives" illustrating certain of Shakespeare's plays] / edited by N.S. Snodgrass. - 1921
295636 - The world of the theatre : impressions and memoirs, March 1920-1921 / [by] J.T. Grein. - 1921
295637 - The story of Romeo and Juliet : (a source of Shakespeare's play) / revised for modern readers by Cotterill. - 1911
295637 - The story of Romeo and Juliet : a source of Shakespeare's play / revised for modern readers by Margherita Selvi. - 1921
297653 - A photographic reproduction of Luigi da Porto's prose version of Romeo and Giulietta dated 1535 : being the original source of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. With a literal translation into English from the Italian. Also a photographic reproduction of the 1539 edition / with full bibliography and introductory remarks by Maurice Jonas. - 1921
297653 - A photographic reproduction of Luigi da Porto's prose version of Romeo and Giulietta dated 1535 : being the original source of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. With a literal translation into English from the Italian. Also a photographic reproduction of the 1539 edition / with full bibliography and introductory remarks by Maurice Jonas. - 1921
305293 - The little Decameron : a selection from Boccaccio. - 1923
314989 - Tragical tales; the complete novels / translated by Geoffrey Fenton (anno 1567) with an introduction by Robert Langton Douglas ; modernized and edited with a glossary by Hugh Harris, B. A. - 1923
328185 - The sources of Hamlet / with essays on the legend by Sir Israel Gollancz. - 1926
333619 - Holinshed's Chronicles; Richard II, 1398-1400, Henry IV and Henry V. - 1923
333620 - Lives of Coriolanus, Caesar, Brutus, and Antonius : in North's translation / edited, with introduction and notes by R.H. Carr. - 1924
333621 - Life of Julius Caesar, in north's translation / edited with introduction and notes by R.H. Carr. - 1924
333621 - Plutarch's life of Julius Caesar, in North's translation / edited with introduction and notes by R.H. Carr. - 1924
343400 - A Bible romance : Queen Esther, the heroine of scripture, with Shakespeare's tribute to beauty, truth, and love. - 1927
353978 - Shakespeare's Holinshed : the Chronicle and the historical plays compared / by W.G. Boswell-Stone. - 1907
358117 - Matteo Bandello; twelve stories selected and done into English. - 1895
388882 - Lodge's 'Rosalynde' : being the original of Shakespeare's 'As you like it' / edited by W. W. Greg, M.A. - 1931
388882 - T. Lodge's 'Rosalynde', [1590] : the original of Shakespeare's 'As you like it' / edited [with introduction, notes, etc.] by W.W. Greg. - 1951
389720 - Rosalynde : Euphues golden legacie, found after his death in his cell at Silexedra, bequeathed to Philautus sonnes, nursed up with their father in England, fetcht from the Canaries / by T.L. Gent. - 1902
391793 - Plutarch's lives of Coriolanus, Caesar, Brutus, and Antonius, in North's translation / edited, with introduction and notes, by R.H. Carr. - 1906
391843 - Holinshed's Chronicles: Richard II, 1398-1400, and Henry V / edited by R. S. Wallace and Alma Hansen. - 1917
396029 - Rosalynde : a novel / with illustrations by T. Maybank. - 1928
403890 - Julius Caesar : from the histories of Julius Caesar and Brutus in North's Plutarch / put into Basic by A. P. Rossiter. - 1933
414235 - Lives of Demetrius, Mark Antony, and Themistocles / translated by J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne ; [edited, with introduction, by H. Morley]. - 1886
414236 - Lives of Demetrius, Mark Antony, and Themistocles / translated by J. Langhorne and W. Langhorne ; [edited, with introduction, by H. Morley]. - 1896
418062 - The goodly history of the true & constant love between Rhomeo & Julietta ... - 1903
418062 - The goodly history of the true & constant love between Rhomeo & Julietta ... - 1903
438976 - Giulietta and Romeo; a story from the original Italian of Luigi da Porto of Vicenza / illustrated with pictures painted in Italy by the translator, Jessie Benton Evans. - 1934
473981 - The true chronicle history of King Lear : [the play on which Shakespeare founded his King Lear] / edited with an introduction [and notes] by A.F. Hopkinson. - 1895
508015 - Lives of Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar / translated by J. & W. Langhorne ; [with introduction by H. Morley]. - 1886
524347 - The story of Romeo and Juliet : a source of Shakespeare's play / revised for modern readers by Margherita Selvi ; translated by Vera and H.B. Cotterill. - 1940
545605 - Life of Julius Caesar in North's translation / edited with introduction and notes by R.H. Carr. - 1908
548840 - The Tragicall hystory of Romeus and Juliet : contayning in it a rare example of true constancie / [a poem by A. Brooke, based on a story by M. Bandello]. - c 1803
562182 - The taming of a shrew : the original of Shakespeare's Taming of the shrew / edited [with an introduction, notes, glossarial index and appendices] by F.S. Boas. - 1908
563661 - Holinshed's Chronicle as used in Shakespeare's plays. - 1927
574542 - Woodstock : a moral history / edited with a preface by A.P. Rossiter ... - 1946
596818 - The French Bandello: a selection; the original text of four of Belleforet's Histoires tragiques. / Edited with an introduction by Frank S. Hook. - 1948
613447 - Shakespeare's Plutarch : a selection from the lives in [Sir T.] North's Plutarch which illustrate Shakespeare's plays / edited, with a preface, notes, index of names, and glossarial index, by W.W. Skeat. - 1904
637758 - The painfull adventures of Pericles, Prince of Tyre / edited by Kenneth Muir. - 1953
665215 - Holinshed's chronicle as used in Shakespeare's plays / edited by Allardyce & Josephine Nicoll. - 1955
665309 - Shakespeare's Appian : a selection from the Tudor translation of Appian's civil wars / edited by Ernest Schanzer. - 1956
665704 - Narrative and dramatic sources of Shakespeare. - 1957-
667944 - Shakespeare's Plutarch; the lives of Julius Caesar, Brutus, Marcus Antonius, and Coriolanus in the translation of Sir Thomas North. / Edited, with an introd., glossary, and parallel passages from Shakespeare's plays, by T. J. B. Spencer. - 1964
754717 - The Sources of ten Shakespearean plays / edited by Alice Griffin. - 1966
764821 - Shakespeare and his sources / [edited by] Joseph Satin. - 1966
768790 - Elizabethan love stories / edited with in introduction and glossary by T. J. B. Spencer. - 1968
F 4234 - Four chapters of north's Plutarch ... sources to Shakespeare's tragedies / edited by Leo. - 1878
Q 188519 - Shakespeare's Ovid,. - 1904
Q 384859 - Gesta Danorum : [one of the sources of Hamlet] / primum a C. Knabe & P. Herrmann recensita ; recognoverunt et ediderunt J. Olrik & H. Raeder. - 1931-1937
p 147683 - Original story of Romeo and Juliet [and] Juliet's tomb at Verona. - 1823
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
Expand 482482
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
Expand 483483
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.
Expand needs checkingneeds checking
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
Expand FILMFILM
Expand GRAMGRAM
Expand 2 - Non English Works2 - Non English Works
Expand 3 - Unchecked Catalogue Entries3 - Unchecked Catalogue Entries
Expand SS

Showcase items

A list of our latest and most exciting new items.