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Shakespeare

Montgomery Library's Guide to Resources on Shakespeare

Shakespeare Articles and E-Books by Top Critics of the 21st Century

Here are some sample of articles, book chapters, and e-books in the Montgomery Library collection published by top Shakespearean scholars from 2000 to the present.

Michael Anderegg - 

Lincoln and Shakespeare (e-book)

Jonathan Bate - 

How the Classics Made Shakespeare (e-book)

Catherine Belsey - 

Shakespeare in Theory and Practice (e-book)

David Bevington -

Literature and the Theatre, in The Cambridge History of Early Modern English Literature (e-book)

Harold Bloom -

Richard III (e-book)William Shakespeare's Macbeth (e-book) 

Patrick Cheney -

Perdita, Pastorella, and the Romance of Literary Form: Shakespeare’s Counter-Spenserian Authorship

Did Shakespeare Have a Literary Career 

A.E.B. Coldiron - 

Canons and Cultures: Is Shakespeare Universal?

Richard Dutton (Editor) - 

A Companion to Shakespeare's works. Volume 1, Tragedies (e-books) 

A Companion to Shakespeare's works. Volume 2, Histories (e-books)

A Companion to Shakespeare's works. Volume 3, Comedies (e-books)

A Companion to Shakespeare's works. Volume 4, Poems, Problem Comedies, Late Plays (e-books) 

Paul Edmondson -

Shakespeare's Sonnets (e-book co-authored with Stanley Wells)

Stephen Greenblatt -

Hamlet in Purgatory (e-book)

Marjorie Garber -

Profiling Shakespeare (e-book)

Andrew Hadfield -

Shakespeare and Republicanism (e-book)

Laurie Maguire - 

How to do Things with Shakespeare: New Approaches, New Essays (e-book, essay collection edited by L. Maguire)

Katherine R. L. McLuskie - 

Shakespeare and the Millennial Market: The Commercial Bard

Karen Newman - 

Essaying Shakespeare (e-book)

Stephen Orgel - 

The Invention of Shakespeare, and Other Essays (e-book)

James Shapiro - 

Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? (print book - available here through CU Library Exchange)

Emma Smith - 

“Freezing the Snowman”: (How) can We do Performance Criticism?

Tiffany Stern - 

Watching as Reading: The Audience and Written Text in Shakespeare's Playhouse

Garrett Sullivan - 

Memory and Forgetting in English Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Webster (e-book)

Shakespeare's Comic Geographies

Stanley Wells -

Shakespeare's Sonnets (e-book co-authored with Paul Edmonson)

Extremes of Passion

Michael Witmore - 

Phenomenology and Sensation: Shakespeare, Sensation, and Renaissance Existentialism

Paul Yachnin - 

Sheepishness in The Winter's Tale