About the Atrium Exhibits
During the weeks that the exhibit panels for "First Folio: the book that gave us SHAKESPEARE" are displayed in the atrium of the Adamany Undergraduate Library, the accompanying exhibit cases will feature books from the Wayne State University Library System's Special Collections. This guide page is designed to highlight titles from those rotating displays.
March 4 - March 9: Shakespeare, His Times, Works, and Representations in Art
March 10 - 11: Special Editions, Shakespeare's Contemporaries, and Featured Scholars
March 14-18: Shakespeare in Children's Literature
March 21 - March 25: Shakespeare, His Times, Works, and Representations in Art
March 28 - April 1: Shakespeare, His Times, Works, and Representations in Art
Shakespeare, His Times, Works, and Representations in Art
The First Folio of Shakespeare by Call Number: PR 2751 .A15 1968ISBN: 0393039854Publication Date: 1996-09-17When it was published in 1968, The Norton Facsimile set a new standard for scholarly accuracy. It was the first facsimile in which every page had been selected from a large number of copies in an attempt to find a clean, clear example with minimal show-through. Even more important, it offered the latest, most corrected state of pages known to vary from copy to copy because of correction at press. Finally, it introduced a standard system of reference, "through line numbering," based on the lines printed in the 1623 edition rather than on the acts, scenes, and lines of a modern edition. These improvements, the meticulous work of the great Folio scholar Charlton Hinman made possible by the extensive Folger Library Collection, established The Norton Facsimile as an indispensable volume for book collectors and serious readers of Shakespeare.
The Three-Text Hamlet by
The original printed editions of Hamlet, each distinctly different from the others, are the First Quarto (1603), the Second Quarto (1604), and the First Folio (1623). Modern editions of the play are based either on the Second Quarto or in the First Folio - each with substantial borrowing from the other, and with a few details from the short First Quarto.
Call Number: PR 2807 .A2 B43 1991 (Purdy-Kresge Library)ISBN: 0404623301Publication Date: 1991-01-01
London in the Time of the Tudors by Call Number: 914.21 B46s v5 (Storage Dewey)ISBN: 9781498081139Publication Date: 2014-03-01Contains map of London in Shakespeare's time, which is on display. Location of Globe Theatre indicated.
Shakespeare & JSTOR
- Understanding ShakespeareA beta site from JSTOR that integrates Folger digital Shakespeare texts with JSTOR articles that reference specific lines and passages from the plays.
NOTE: WSU access ID and password required.
Special Editions, Shakespeare's Contemporaries, and Featured Scholars
Shakespeare in Children's Literature
- Tales from Shakespear : designed for the use of young persons byCall Number: Digital Copy from Hathi TrustA print copy of the 1816 edition from the WSU Ramsey Collection is on display.
Shakespeare in Video
The WSU Library System has access to online and streaming videos, as well as DVDs, that offer over 200 titles related to Shakespeare. The Kanopy and Theatre in Video collections, in particular, provide Shakespeare performances and films about Shakespeare's life and context for the plays.
To see a list of items click on this link into the WSU catalog.
NOTE: a WSU access ID and password are required to view these resources.
Academic Conference (March 10-11) Featured Scholars
Two distinguished scholars will be keynote speakers for the Academic Conference, "Shakespeare and his Culture on Stage and on the Page," held at the David Adamany Undergraduate Library, March 10 and March 11, 2016. Display of selected titles by these scholars will be part of the special conference display on March 10 and 11.
About the scholars:
David M. Bevington
is Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities and in English Language & Literature, Comparative Literature, and the College at the University of Chicago, where he has taught since 1967. His research specialty is British Renaissance drama; he is the only living scholar who has edited the complete body of Shakespeare’s work. He recently completed co-editing The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (2012), and is the author of a distinguished corpus of articles and books on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and Renaissance England.
Mary Thomas Crane
is Thomas F. Rattigan Professor of English at Boston College. Her research specialty encompasses English Renaissance literature and culture, primarily intellectual history and the history of science and technology, as well as cognitive literary theory. Most recently she is author of Losing Touch with Nature: Literature and the New Science in Sixteenth-Century England (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014); her scholarly work includes three books and over 25 articles and essays on early modern drama and poetry.
Complete Works of Shakespeare by
A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and comprehensive glosses, footnotes, and historical and cultural essays make this the most reader-friendly introduction to Shakespeare available today. The seventh edition of this comprehensive anthology addresses the two key issues confronted by readers approaching Shakespeare today: a lack of knowledge about the historical period and difficulty with the language of Shakespeare's plays. A richly illustrated general introduction offers insight into Shakespeare's England and background on the literary and cultural contexts in which Shakespeare wrote and produced plays. Each play is introduced by a descriptive essay designed to help the reader appreciate the cultural contexts and interpretive issues raised by the play -- without dictating their interpretations. Thoroughly revised and updated notes and glosses provide additional support to understanding the language of Shakespeare's time.
ISBN: 0321886518Publication Date: 2012-12-29
Form and Reform in Renaissance England by
This collection is divided into three sections -- dealing with literary and cultural forms, women writing/writing women, and Milton -- each reflecting a substantial contribution Lewalski has made to early modern scholarship.
ISBN: 0874136911Publication Date: 2000-04-01
Losing Touch with Nature by
During the scientific revolution, the dominant Aristotelian picture of nature, which cohered closely with common sense and ordinary perceptual experience, was completely overthrown. Although we now take for granted the ideas that the earth revolves around the sun and that seemingly solid matter is composed of tiny particles, these concepts seemed equally counterintuitive, anxiety provoking, and at odds with our ancestors' embodied experience of the world. In Losing Touch with Nature, Mary Thomas Crane examines the complex way that the new science's threat to intuitive Aristotelian notions of the natural world was treated and reflected in the work of Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and other early modern writers. Crane breaks new ground by arguing that sixteenth-century ideas about the universe were actually much more sophisticated, rational, and observation-based than many literary critics have assumed. The earliest stages of the scientific revolution in England were most powerfully experienced as a divergence of intuitive science from official science, causing a schism between embodied human experience of the world and learned explanations of how the world works. This fascinating book traces the growing awareness of that epistemological gap through textbooks and natural philosophy treatises to canonical poetry and plays, presciently registering and exploring the magnitude of the human loss that accompanied the beginnings of modern science.
ISBN: 9781421415314Publication Date: 2014-10-22
Murder Most Foul by
What is it about Hamlet that has made it such a compelling and vital work? Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages is an account of Shakespeare's great play from its sources in Scandinavian epic lore to the way it was performed and understood in his own day, and then how the play has fared down to the present: performances on stage, television, and in film, critical evaluations, publishing history, spinoffs, spoofs, musical adaptations, the play's growing reputation, its influence on writers and thinkers, and the ways in which it has shaped the very language we speak. The staging, criticism, and editing of Hamlet , David Bevington argues, go hand in hand over the centuries, to such a remarkable extent that the history of Hamlet can be seen as a kind of paradigm for the cultural history of the English-speaking world.
ISBN: 9780199599103Publication Date: 2011-07-21
Shakespeare's Brain by
Here Mary Thomas Crane considers the brain as a site where body and culture meet to form the subject and its expression in language. Taking Shakespeare as her case study, she boldly demonstrates the explanatory power of cognitive theory--a theory which argues that language is produced by a reciprocal interaction of body and environment, brain and culture, and which refocuses attention on the role of the author in the making of meaning. Crane reveals in Shakespeare's texts a web of structures and categories through which meaning is created. The approach yields fresh insights into a wide range of his plays, including The Comedy of Errors, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, and The Tempest. Crane's cognitive reading traces the complex interactions of cultural and cognitive determinants of meaning as they play themselves out in Shakespeare's texts. She shows how each play centers on a word or words conveying multiple meanings (such as "act," "pinch," "pregnant," "villain and clown"), and how each cluster has been shaped by early modern ideological formations. The book also chronicles the playwright's developing response to the material conditions of subject formation in early modern England. Crane reveals that Shakespeare in his comedies first explored the social spaces within which the subject is formed, such as the home, class hierarchy, and romantic courtship. His later plays reveal a greater preoccupation with how the self is formed within the body, as the embodied mind seeks to make sense of and negotiate its physical and social environment.
ISBN: 0691069921Publication Date: 2000-11-05
Shakespeare's Ideas by
An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind". Written by a leading Shakespearean scholar Discusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, and closure Explores Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind"
ISBN: 9781405167956Publication Date: 2008-08-25
