Early Modern Drama
Texts
Electronic editions
- EEBO: Early English Books Online Full-text of literary and historical classics originally published between 1475 and 1700. Digital images reflect the way the works appeared in their original printed editions.
Print editions
- Use Discover to do an author search on a playwright's name to find works by him/her.
- Interplay: an on-line index to plays in collections, anthologies and periodicals "Inter-Play is an online index to plays in collections, anthologies, and periodicals and in a variety of languages. Separately-published plays are not included. Inter-Play contains approximately 19,000 citations to plays, many of which are not included in the standard printed play indexes such as Ottemiller's Index to Plays in Collections or H. W. Wilson's Play Index. The sources indexed range from the late 19th century through the current year." The search interface is somewhat primitive and authors must be entered as last name, first name.
Productions and adaptations
- World Shakespeare Bibliography Online This link opens in a new window1961 - present. Provides annotated entries for books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, productions and adaptations, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare. Use the Advanced Search form to select "Document type" Production or Film to restrict your search to stage productions or film adaptations of a play respectively.
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries in Performance by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks PR3091 .S535 2000ISBN: 0754600467Publication Date: 2000-12-28
- IMDB (Internet Movie Database)Search on a playwright's name to find film adaptations of his/her work.
The Stage
A Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642 by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Library Reference PR658.S59 D47 1999ISBN: 0521552508Publication Date: 1999-11-04
Documents of Performance in Early Modern England by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks PR658.T4 S74 2009ISBN: 9780521842372Publication Date: 2009-09-17
The Elizabethan StageCall Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks PN2589 .C4ISBN: 9780199567478Publication Date: 1923Vol. 1 The court. The control of the stage. Vol. 2 The companies. The playhouses. Vol. 3 Staging at court. Staging in the theatres. Plays and playwrights. Vol. 4 Anonymous work: Plays; Masks; Receptions and entertainments. Also available in ebook format.
Illustrations of the English Stage, 1580-1642 by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks Folio PN2589 .F6 1985ISBN: 9780804712361Publication Date: 1985-01-01
Illustrations of the Stage and Acting in England to 1580 by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks Folio PN2587 .D38 1991ISBN: 0918720478Publication Date: 1991-07-01
The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theatre by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks PN2589 .O94 2009ISBN: 9780199287246Publication Date: 2009-08-01- The Profession of Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642 by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks PN2589 .B46 1984ISBN: 9780691065960Publication Date: 1984-05-21
Shakespeare's London Theatreland by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks PN2596.L6 B69 2012ISBN: 9781907586125Publication Date: 2012-07-30
- ShaLT (Shakespearean London Theatres)Joint project of De Montfort University and the Victoria and Albert Museum aimed at increasing public awareness of the known sites of London theaters that existed in Shakespeare's time. Includes " a map, a printed ShaLT Guide, interactive software, public talks, and downloadable short films that will enable the public to travel to the modern London locations of these theatres and learn about them."
Staged Properties in Early Modern English Drama by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks PR658.S597 S73 2002ISBN: 0521813220Publication Date: 2003-01-02
Costumes
- Costume in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Library Reference GT734 .L5Publication Date: 1936-01-01(note: title on book cover is Costume in Elizabethan Drama)
Costuming the Shakespearean Stage by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks PR3095 .L83 2011ISBN: 9780754662259Publication Date: 2011-10-28
Costuming the Shakespearean Stage by Call Number: Electronic BookISBN: 9781409436836Publication Date: 2011-10-28- Handbook of English costume in the sixteenth century by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Library Reference GT730 .C87Publication Date: 1954-01-01With illus. by Barbara Phillipson.
- Handbook of English costume in the seventeenth century by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Library Reference GT730 .C87Publication Date: 1955With illus. by Barbara Phillipson and Phillis Cunnington.
- Historic costume for the stage by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Library Reference PN2067 .B3Publication Date: 1935Illustrated by David Sarvis.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, still images, moving images, audio, and primary sources. It now includes the contents of ArtStor, an image collection that contains some images pertaining to costumes and performing arts.
Language and Pronunciation
Shakespeares Words by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Library Reference PR2892 .C78 2002ISBN: 0141007370Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Shakespeare's Non-Standard English by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Stacks PR2892 .B56 2006ISBN: 0826491235Publication Date: 2004
The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation by Call Number: Mount Holyoke College Main Library Reference PR2892 .C78 2016ISBN: 0199668426Publication Date: 2016-06-01
