Bibliography 

FS301 Unique number # 33496: "Humor in Shakespeare' s Comedies"
 
I. Complete Works

The Oxford Shakespeare, The Complete Works. With a general Introduction, and Introductions to individual works, by Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor, General Editors. One volume. Clarendon Press. OUP. 1988.
W.Sh. Comedies, Histories & Tragedies.
First Folio, London, 1623. Folger Shakespeare Library. Octavo Digital Editions. 2001. CD-Rom.
Open Source Shakespeare Edition.
CD-Rom. University of Central Lancashire. 2000.
The Norton Facsimile of the First Folio of Shakespeare
. By C.Hinman. New York, 1968. 

II. Comedies,  study editions. 

Example:

Twelfth Night or What you Will

Cambridge Shakespeare. W.G. Clark and W.A. Wright, Cambridge. 1866
New Variorum. H.H. Furness, Philadelphia. 1901.
Arden Shakespeare. M.Luce. London. 1906.
Cambridge Shakespeare. A. Quiller-Couch and J.D. Wilson. Cambridge. 1930. Expanded 1949.
New Penguin Shakespeare. M.M. Mahood. Harmondsworth. 1968.
New Arden Shakespeare. J.M. Lothian and T.W. Craik. London, 1975.
New Cambridge Shakespeare. E.S. Donno. Cambridge.1985

III. Specific Studies

Example: Twelfth Night

Adams, B.B., "Orsino and the Spirit of Love", in Shakespeare Quarterly, XXIX, 1978
Barnett, S., "Charles Lamb and the Tragic Malvolio", in Philological Quarterly, XXXIII. 1954
Barton, A., "AYL and TN: Sh's Sense of an Ending", in Shakespearian Comedy; by D.Palmer& M.Bradbury, London, 1972.
Berry, R., "The Season of TN" in Comedy, New Perspectives, edited by M. Charney, N.Y., 1978.
    _ "TN: The Experience of the Audience", in Shakespeare Survey, XXXIV, 1981.
Booth, S. "Twelfth Night: 1.1: The Audience as malvolio", in Shakespeare's "Rough Magic". Renaissance Essays in Honor of C.L.Barber, edited by P.Erickson and C.Kahn, Newark, Del. 1985.
Brissenden, A., "The dance in AYL and TN" in Cahiers élisabéthians, 13, 1978.
Brown, J.R., "Directions of TN", (1961), in Shakespeare's Plays in Performance, 1966.
Carroll, W.C., "The Ending of TN and the Tradition of Metamorphosis", in  Shakespearean Comedy,edited by M.Charney, N.Y., 1980.
Charney, M., "TN and the 'natural perspectives' of Comedy", in De Shakespaere à T.S.Eliot: Mélanges offerts à Henry Fluchère, Paris, 1976.
_ "Comic Premises of TN, in his Comedy, New Perspectives, N.Y., 1978.
Crane, M., TN and Shakespeare Comedy", in Shakespeare Quarterly, VI, 1965.
Draper, A.S., The Twelfth Night of Shakespeare's Audience, N.Y., 1950.
Eagelton, T., "Language and Reaqlity in TN", in Critical Quarterly, IX, 1957.
Gregson, J.M., Shakespeare: Twelfth Night, London, 1980.
Greif, K., "Plays and Playing in TN", in Shakespeare Survey, XXXIV, 1981.
Hardy, B., Twelfth Night, London, 1962.
Hawkes, T., "Comedy, Orality and Duplicity: MND and TN", in Shakespearean Comedy, edited by M.Charney, N.Y., 1980.
Hollander, J., "Musica Mundana and TN" in English Institute Essays, edited by Northrop Frye, N.Y., 1956.
Hotson, L., The First Night of Twelfth Night. London, 1954.
Huston, J.D., "When I Came to Man's Estate": TN and the problems of identity", in Modern language Quarterly, XXXIII, 1972.
Jenkins, H., Shakespeare's TN,  Rice Institute Pamphlet XLV, 1959.
King, W.N. (ed.), Twentieth Century Interpretations of 'TN', Englewood Cliffs, 1968.
Krieger, E. "The Quality of Persons and the Time: TN" in Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Americanistik, XXV, 1977.
Lamb, M.E., "Ovid's Metamorphoses and Sh's TN", in Shakespearean Comedy, edited by M.Charney, N.Y., 1980.
Leech, C. "Sh's Comic Duke", in A Review of English Literature, V, 1964.
_ TN and Shakespearean Comedy, Toronto, 1965
Levin, H., "The Underplot of TN", in De Shakespaere à T.S.Eliot: Mélanges offerts à Henry Fluchère, Paris, 1976.
Lewalsky, B., "Thematic Patterns in TN", in Shakespeare Studies, I. 1965.
Logan, T.L., "TN: The limits of Festivity", in Studies in English Literature, XXII, 1982.
Markles, J., "Sh's Confluence of Tragedy and Comedy: TN and KL", in Shakespeare Quarterly, XV, 1964.
Melchiori, G., "Introduction to TN", in W.SH: Le Commedie Romantiche, Milano. 1982.
Montegut,E., "The Carnival World of TN"(1867), in Variorum Edition of TN, edited by H.H.Furness, Philadelphia, 1901.
Palmer, D.J. (ed.), Shakespeare, Twelfth Night. A Casebook, London, 1972.
__ "TN and the Myth of Echo and Narcissus", in Shakespeare Survey, XXXII, 1979.
Potter, L., TN (Text and Performance), London, 1985.
Preston, D.R., "The Minor Characters in TN", in Shakespeare Quarterly, XXI, 1970.
Priestley, J.B. "The English Comic Characters" (1925), reprinted under the title of "The Illyrians" in TN: Critical Essays , edited by Stanley Wells, N.Y., 1986.
Salingar, D.G., "The Design of TN" in Shakespeare Quarterly, IX, 1958.
Siegel, P.N., "MAlvolio: COmic Puritan Automaton", in Shakespearean Comedy, edited by M.Charney, N.Y., 1980.
Summers, J.H., "The masks of TN", in University if Kansas City Review, XXII, (1933?).
Tobin, J.J.M., "Gabriel harvey in Illyria", in English Studies, LXI, 1980.
Ungerer, G.G., "My Lady's a Catayan, We are Politicians. Malvolio's a Peg-a-Ramsey", in Shakespeare Survey, XXXII, 1979.
Warren, R., "Smiling at Grief: Some Techniques of Comedy in TN and Cosi Fan Tutte", in Shakespeare Survey, XXXII, 1979.
Wells, S. (ed.) TN: Critical Essays, N.Y., 1986.
Williams, P.Jr., "Mistakes in TN and their Resolution" in PMLA, LXXVI, 1961.


IV. Shakespeare's Times and Cultural Context

V. Shakespeare Today
(performances, editions and theories)

VI. Cinema, Audio-books, Internet and other formats



Shakespeare on Film:

A selected filmography of Shakespeare's works

[The following list is organized alphabetically by play title. It includes the film title, country of origin, date of production (usually the release date), running time, production company, director, and a few of the notable actors. It includes all of the titles mentioned in Kenneth Rothwell's special feature and more.] See also A Century of Shakespeare on Film.

All's Well That Ends Well (none)

Antony and Cleopatra
Spain/Switz./UK; 1972
Running time: 160 minutes
Production company: Transac/Izaro/Folie
Director: Charlton Heston
Cast:

  • Charlton Heston (Antony)
  • Hildegard Neil (Cleopatra)
  • Fernando Rey (Lepidus)

    As You Like It
    UK; 1936
    Running time: 97 minutes
    Production company: Inter-Allied
    Director: Paul Czinner
    Cast:

  • Henry Ainley (Duke Senior)
  • Felix Aylmer (Duke Frederick)
  • Laurence Olivier (Orlando)
  • Elisabeth Bergner (Rosalind)

    (2)
    UK; 1992
    Running time: 117 minutes
    Production company: Sands Films
    Director: Christine Edzard
    Cast:

  • Andrew Tiernan (Orlando/Oliver)
  • Emma Croft (Rosalind)
  • Cyril Cusack (Adam)
  • James Fox (Jaques)

    The Comedy of Errors (none)

    Coriolanus (none)

    Cymbeline (none)

    Hamlet
    France; 1900
    Running time: 3 minutes
    Production company: Maurice
    Director: Clément Maurice
    Cast:

  • Sarah Bernhardt (Hamlet)
  • Pierre Magnier (Laertes)

    (2)
    France; 1907
    Running time: 10 minutes
    Production company: Méliès
    Director: Georges Méliès
    Cast:

  • Georges Méliès (Hamlet)

    (3)
    UK; 1913
    Running time: 54 minutes
    Production company: Hepworth/Gaumont
    Director: E. Hay Plumb
    Cast:

  • Johnston Forbes-Robertson (Hamlet)

    (4)
    Germany; 1920
    Running time: 117 minutes
    Production company: Art Film
    Director: Svend Gade/Heinz Schall
    Cast:

  • Asta Nielsen (Hamlet)

    (5)
    UK; 1948
    Running time: 152 minutes
    Production company: Two Cities Films
    Director: Laurence Olivier
    Cast:

  • Laurence Olivier (Hamlet)
  • Jean Simmons (Ophelia)
  • Eileen Herlie (Gertrude)

    (6)
    West Germany; 1960
    Running time: 127 minutes
    Production company: Bavaria Attelier
    Director: Franz Peter Wirth
    Cast:

  • Maximilian Schell (Hamlet)

    (7)
    film title: Ophelia
    France; 1962
    Running time: 105 minutes
    Production company: Boreal Pictures
    Director: Claude Chabrol
    Cast:

  • André Jocelyn (Yvan/Hamlet)
  • Juliette Mayniel (Lucie/Ophelia)
  • Alida Valli (Claudia Lesurf/Gertrude)
  • Claude Cerval (Adrien Lesurf/Claudius)

    (8)
    film title: Gamlet
    USSR; 1964
    Running time: 148 minutes
    Production company: Lenfilm
    Director: Grigori Kozintsev
    Cast:

  • Innokenti Smoktunovsky (Hamlet)

    (9)
    UK; 1969
    Running time: 117 minutes
    Production company: Woodfall Film Productions
    Director: Tony Richardson
    Cast:

  • Nicol Williamson (Hamlet)
  • Marianne Faithfull (Ophelia)
  • Judy Parfitt (Gertrude)
  • Anthony Hopkins (Claudius)

    (10)
    US; 1990
    Running time: 135 minutes
    Production company: Icon Productions
    Director: Franco Zeffirelli
    Cast:

  • Mel Gibson (Hamlet)
  • Helena Bonham Carter (Ophelia)
  • Glenn Close (Gertrude)
  • Alan Bates (Claudius)

    (11)
    film title: A Midwinter's Tale (In the Bleak Midwinter)
    UK; 1995
    Running time: 98 minutes
    Production company: Midwinter Films
    Director: Kenneth Branagh

    (12)
    UK/US; 1996
    Running time: 242 minutes
    Production company: Castle Rock Entertainment
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Cast:

  • Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet)
  • Kate Winslet (Ophelia)
  • Julie Christie (Gertrude)
  • Charlton Heston (Player King)

    Henry IV, Part 1 (also covers Henry IV, Part 2 and Henry V)
    film title: Chimes at Midnight
    Spain/Switz.; 1966
    Running time: 119 minutes
    Production company: Internacional Films/Alpine
    Director: Orson Welles
    Cast:

  • Orson Welles (Falstaff)
  • Keith Baxter (Prince Hal)
  • John Gielgud (Henry IV)
  • Margaret Rutherford (Mistress Quickly)

    Henry IV, Part 2
    (see above Henry IV, Part 1)

    Henry V
    (see above Henry IV, Part 1)

    (2)
    UK; 1944
    Running time: 137 minutes
    Production company: Two Cities Films
    Director: Laurence Olivier
    Cast:

  • Laurence Olivier (Henry V)
  • Robert Newton (Pistol)
  • Leslie Banks (Chorus)
  • Renée Asherston (Katherine)

    (3)
    UK; 1989
    Running time: 138 minutes
    Production company: Samuel Goldwyn/Renaissance Films
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Cast:

  • Kenneth Branagh (Henry V)
  • Derek Jacobi (Chorus)
  • Ian Holm (Fluellen)
  • Judi Dench (Mistress Quickly)

    Henry VI, Part 1 (none)

    Henry VI, Part 2 (none)

    Henry VI, Part 3 (none)

    Henry VIII (none)

    Julius Caesar
    US; 1950
    Running time: 90 minutes
    Production company: Avon Productions
    Director: David Bradley
    Cast:

  • Charlton Heston (Mark Antony)

    (2)
    US; 1953
    Running time: 121 minutes
    Production company: MGM
    Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
    Cast:

  • Marlon Brando (Mark Antony)
  • James Mason (Brutus)
  • John Gielgud (Cassius)
  • Louis Calhern (Julius Caesar)

    (3)
    UK; 1970
    Running time: 117 minutes
    Production company: Commonwealth United
    Director: Stuart Burge
    Cast:

  • Charlton Heston (Mark Antony)
  • Jason Robards (Brutus)
  • John Gielgud (Julius Caesar)
  • Diana Rigg (Portia)

    King John
    UK; 1899
    Running time: 2 minutes (?)
    Production company: British Mutoscope and Biograph Co.
    Director: Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
    Cast:

  • Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree (King John)

    King Lear
    film title: Karol Lear
    USSR; 1970
    Running time: 140 minutes
    Production company: Lenfilm
    Director: Grigory Kozintsev
    Cast:

  • Yuri Yarvet (King Lear)

    (2)
    UK/Denmark; 1970
    Running time: 137 minutes
    Production company: Filmways (London)--Athene/Laterna Films (Copenhagen)
    Director: Peter Brook
    Cast:

  • Paul Scofield (Lear)
  • Irene Worth (Goneril)
  • Jack MacGowran (Fool)
  • Anne-Lise Gabold (Cordelia)

    Love's Labour's Lost (none)

    Macbeth
    US; 1948
    Running time: 89 minutes
    Production company: Republic Pictures/Mercury Production
    Director: Orson Welles
    Cast:

  • Orson Welles (Macbeth)
  • Jeanette Nolan (Lady Macbeth)
  • Dan O'Herlihy (Macduff)

    (2)
    film title: Throne of Blood
    Japan; 1957
    Running time: 105 minutes
    Production company: Toho
    Director: Akira Kurosawa
    Cast:

  • Toshiro Mifune (Taketoki Washizu/Macbeth)
  • Isuzu Yamada (Asaji/Lady Macbeth)

    (3)
    UK; 1971
    Running time: 140 minutes
    Production company: Playboy Productions/Caliban Films
    Director: Roman Polanski
    Cast:

  • Jon Finch (Macbeth)
  • Francesca Annis (Lady Macbeth)

    Measure for Measure (none)

    The Merchant of Venice
    film title: Il mercante di Venezia
    Italy; 1910
    Running time: 8 minutes
    Production company: Film d'Arte Italiana
    Director: Gerolamo Lo Savio (?)
    Cast:

  • Ermete Novelli (Shylock)
  • Francesca Bertini (Portia)

    (2)
    film title: Shylock
    France: 1913
    Running time: 33 minutes
    Production company: Eclipse
    Director: Henri Desfontaines
    Cast:

  • Harry Baur (Shylock)
  • Pépa Bonafé (Portia)

    (3)
    film title: Der Kaufmann von Venedig
    Germany; 1923
    Running time: 64 minutes
    Production company: Peter Paul Felner-Film Co.
    Director: Peter Paul Felner
    Cast:

  • Werner Krauss (Shylock)
  • Henny Porten (Portia)
  • Max Schreck (Duke of Venice)
  • Carl Ebert (Antonio)

    The Merry Wives of Windsor (none)

    A Midsummer Night's Dream
    US; 1909
    Running time: 8 minutes
    Production company: Vitagraph Company
    Director: Charles Kent
    Cast:

  • Maurice Costello (Lysander)
  • Dolores Costello (Fairy)
  • William Ranous (Nick Bottom)

    (2)
    US; 1935
    Running time: 132 minutes
    Production company: Warner Brothers
    Director: Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle
    Cast:

  • Dick Powell (Lysander)
  • Olivia de Havilland (Hermia)
  • Mickey Rooney (Puck)
  • James Cagney (Nick Bottom)

    (3)
    UK; 1996
    Running time: 105 minutes
    Production company: Edenwood Productions
    Director: Adrian Noble
    Cast:

  • Lindsay Duncan (Hippolyta/Titania)
  • Alex Jennings (Theseus/Oberon)
  • Desmond Barrit (Nick Bottom)

    Much Ado About Nothing
    UK/US; 1993
    Running time: 110 minutes
    Production company: Samuel Goldwyn/Renaissance Films
    Director: Kenneth Branagh
    Cast:

  • Kenneth Branagh (Benedick)
  • Emma Thompson (Beatrice)
  • Michael Keaton (Dogberry)
  • Denzel Washington (Don Pedro)

    Othello
    Germany; 1922
    Running time: 93 minutes
    Production company: Wörner Film
    Director: Dimitri Buchowetzki
    Cast:

  • Emil Jannings (Othello)
  • Werner Krauss (Iago)
  • Ica von Lenkeffy (Desdemona)

    (2)
    Morocco; 1952
    Running time: 91 minutes
    Production company: Films Marceau/Mercury Productions
    Director: Orson Welles
    Cast:

  • Orson Welles (Othello)
  • Micheál MacLiammóir (Iago)
  • Suzanne Cloutier (Desdemona)
  • Robert Coote (Roderigo)

    (3)
    USSR; 1956
    Running time: 108 minutes
    Production company: Mosfilm
    Director: Sergei Yutkevich
    Cast:

  • Sergei Bondarchuk (Othello)
  • Andrei Popov (Iago)
  • Irina Skobtseva (Desdemona)

    (4)
    UK; 1995
    Running time: 124 minutes
    Production company: Castle Rock/Dakota Films/Imminent Films
    Director: Oliver Parker
    Cast:

  • Laurence Fishburne (Othello)
  • Kenneth Branagh (Iago)
  • Irène Jacob (Desdemona)

    Pericles (none)

    Richard II (none)

    Richard III
    UK; 1911
    Running time: 16 minutes
    Production company: Co-operative Cinematograph
    Director: Frank R. Benson
    Cast:

  • Frank R. Benson (Richard III)

    (2)
    US; 1912
    Running time: 55 minutes
    Production company: Shakespeare Film Co./Richard III Film Co.
    Director: James Keane [Keene]
    Cast:

  • Frederick Warde (Richard III)
  • James Keane [Keene] (Richmond)

    (3)
    UK; 1955
    Running time: 138 minutes
    Production company: London Film Productions
    Director: Laurence Olivier
    Cast:

  • Laurence Olivier (Richard III)
  • John Gielgud (Clarence)
  • Ralph Richardson (Buckingham)
  • Claire Bloom (Lady Anne)

    (4)
    US; 1995
    Running time: 105 minutes
    Production company: Bayly/Paré
    Director: Richard Loncraine
    Cast:

  • Ian McKellen (Richard III)
  • Jim Broadbent (Buckingham)
  • Kristin Scott Thomas (Lady Anne)
  • Annette Bening (Queen Elizabeth)

    (5)
    film title: Looking for Richard
    US; 1996
    Running time: 109 minutes
    Production company: Jam Productions
    Director: Al Pacino
    Cast:

  • Al Pacino (Richard III)
  • Aidan Quinn (Richmond)
  • Alec Baldwin (Clarence)
  • Winona Ryder (Lady Anne)

    Romeo and Juliet
    US; 1936
    Running time: 126 minutes
    Production company: MGM
    Director: George Cukor
    Cast:

  • Leslie Howard (Romeo)
  • Norma Shearer (Juliet)
  • John Barrymore (Mercutio)
  • Basil Rathbone (Tybalt)

    (2)
    film title: Les Amants de Vérone
    France; 1949
    Running time: 110 minutes
    Production company: Films de France
    Director: Andre Cayatte
    Cast:

  • Serge Reggiani (Romeo)
  • Anouk Aimée (Juliet)

    (3)
    film title: Giulietta e Romeo
    UK/Italy; 1954
    Running time: 138 minutes
    Production company: Verona Productions
    Director: Renato Castellani
    Cast:

  • Laurence Harvey (Romeo)
  • Susan Shentall (Juliet)
  • Flora Robson (Nurse)

    (4)
    film title: Giulietta e Romeo
    Italy/Spain; 1964
    Running time: 90 minutes
    Production company: Imprecine/Hispamer Film
    Director: Riccardo Freda
    Cast:

  • Gerald Meynier (Romeo)
  • Rosemarie Dexter (Juliet)

    (5)
    Italy/UK; 1968
    Running time: 139 minutes
    Production company: B.H.E./Verona Productions/Dino de Laurentiis Cinematografica
    Director: Franco Zeffirelli
    Cast:

  • Leonard Whiting (Romeo)
  • Olivia Hussey (Juliet)
  • Michael York (Tybalt)

    (6)
    US; 1996
    Running time: 120 minutes
    Production company: Bazmark
    Director: Baz Luhrmann
    Cast:

  • Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo)
  • Claire Danes (Juliet)
  • Brian Dennehy (Montague)
  • Paul Sorvino (Capulet)

    The Taming of the Shrew
    US; 1929
    Running time: 68 minutes
    Production company: Pickford Corporation
    Director: Sam Taylor
    Cast:

  • Mary Pickford (Katharina)
  • Douglas Fairbanks (Petruchio)

    (2)
    US/Italy; 1966
    Running time: 122 minutes
    Production company: Royal Films International (N.Y.) F.A.I. Production
    Director: Franco Zeffirelli
    Cast:

  • Elizabeth Taylor (Katharina)
  • Richard Burton (Petruchio)

    The Tempest
    UK; 1979
    Running time: 96 minutes
    Production company: Boyd's Company
    Director: Derek Jarman
    Cast:

  • Heathcote Williams (Prospero)
  • Karl Johnson (Ariel)
  • Toyah Willcox (Miranda)

    (2)
    film title: Prospero's Books
    UK/Netherlands/France/Italy; 1991
    Running time: 124 minutes
    Production company: Allarts/Cine/Camera One/Penta
    Director: Peter Greenaway
    Cast:

  • John Gielgud (Prospero)
  • Isabelle Pasco (Miranda)
  • Michael Clark (Caliban)

    Timon of Athens (none)

    Titus Andronicus (none)

    Troilus and Cressida (none)

    Twelfth Night
    film title: Dvenadtsataya noch
    USSR; 1955
    Running time: 90 minutes
    Production company: Lenfilm
    Director: Yakow Fried
    Cast:

  • Katya Luchko (Sebastian/Viola)
  • Anna Larionova (Olivia)

    (2)
    UK/US; 1996
    Running time: 134 minutes
    Production company: Renaissance Productions
    Director: Trevor Nunn
    Cast:

  • Imogen Stubbs (Viola)
  • Helena Bonham Carter (Olivia)
  • Richard E. Grant (Sir Andrew Aguecheek)
  • Steven Mackintosh (Sebastian)

    The Two Gentlemen of Verona (none)

    The Two Noble Kinsmen (none)

    The Winter's Tale
    film title: Una tragedia alla corte di Sicilia
    Italy; 1914
    Running time: 32 minutes
    Production company: Milano Films
    Director: Baldassare Negroni
    Cast:

  • Pina Fabbri (Paulina)
  • V. Cocchi (Leontes)

    (2)
    UK; 1966
    Running time: 151 minutes
    Production company: Cressida/Hurst Park Productions
    Director: Frank Dunlop
    Cast:

  • Laurence Harvey (Leontes)
  • Jane Asher (Perdita)








  • The Globe Quick Time movies.


    Shakespeare and the Globe
    The Globe, an animated tour requires Quicktime
    The Globe and the Growth of London requires shockwave
    Theatres and theatre companies
    London Theatres c. 1600

    VII. Other arts (paintings, opera, etc.)

    Paintings:



    As You Like It

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised: April 06, 2000

    Twelfth Night

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised: April 06, 2000

    Love's Labor's Lost

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised: June 06, 1997

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised: August 16, 2000

    Much Ado About Nothing

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised: March 03, 1998


    The Taming of the Shrew

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised: September 01, 1998

    The Merry Wives of Windsor

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised:  August 17, 2000

    The Merchant of Venice

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised: August 16, 2000

    The Two Gentlemen of Verona

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised: March 03, 1998

    Measure for Measure

    ©  Harry Rusche, Emory University, Atlanta, GA This page was last revised: May 14, 1997


     
    OPERA


    Shakespeare and Opera, by Chantal Miller- Schütz, Shakespeare and the Globe: then and now. Encyclopedia Britannica.
    Audiovisual Feature: includes Audio recordings in au and wav format, and and video clips in Quick Time format.







    VIII. On humor: some definitions.
    Kirby Olson: Comedy after Postmodernism: rereading comedy (2001). Texas Tech University Press.
    Richard S. Carlson: The Benign Humorists. (1975). Archon Books.
    James W. Barron, ed.: Humor and Psyche. Psychoanalytic Perspectives. (1999). The Analitic Press.
    Richard J. Alexander: Aspects of Verbal Humour in English. (1997). Günter Narr Verlag, Tübingen.
    Mahadev L. Apte: Humor and Laughter. An Anthropological Approach. (1985). Cornell University Press.
    Marvin R. Koller: Humor and Society: Explorations in the Sociology of Humor. (1988). Cap and Gown Press.
    Paul Tabori: The Humor and the Technology of Sex. (1969). Julian Press.

    VIII. Essays and other materials
    (
    used in the classroom)

    Shakespeare Magazine.Volume 1, Issue 3 Spring 1997

    Shakespeare with Tears, by McDonald, Russ. University of North Carolin at Greensboro.
    Why, at the end of Shakespeare's comedies, do we feel like crying?
    Three Scenes, Three Societies, Three Shylocks, by Mary Ellen Dakin

    Shakespeare Magazine. Volume 1, Issue 5 Fall 1998
    Playing with Subtext:  Using Groucho to Teach Shakespeare. By John S. O'Conner.

    The Pocket Companion to Shakespeare's Plays. Trevin, J.C. with additional material by Brown, James and a foreword by dame Judi Dench, first published by Mitchell Beazley, 1981. revised edition 1994, Reed International Books limited. London. 1997

    Enter the Whole Army. A Pictorial Study of Shakespearean Staging 1576-1616, by Hodges, C.Walter, Cambridge University Press, reprint 2000.

    Shakespeare and the Drama of his Time, by Martin Wiggins, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000.

    Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres, by Gurr Andre and Mariko Ichikawa, Oxford University Press, Oxford 2000.

    Late Shakespeare. A New World of Words, by Palfrey, Simon. Clarendon Press. Oxford 1999.

    Shakespeare, the King's playwright. Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603 - 1613,  by Kernan, Alvin. Yale University Press. New Haven.1995.

    Shakespeare's Sonnets. Wells, Stanley. Oxford University Press. 1987.


      list to be continued




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