Shakespeares Insomnia and the Causes Thereof
After much debate about the chronology of Shakespeare’s works, Head attempts to assign a timeline based upon the significance of repeated references to insomnia in his plays. The author suggests that these allusions are prevalent because Shakespeare himself suffered from the condition.
Head, Franklin H.
Houghton, Mifflin
1926
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The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles
Raphael Holinshed intended his “universal cosmographie” to serve as both a comprehensive geographical and historical description and a testament to the growing influence and prestige of English scholarship. This edition was heavily censored after publication because of its controversial interpretation of political events of the time. It has been recognized as one of Shakespeare’s most important sources. Shakespeare gleaned the basic plots of nearly all of his historical plays from Holinshed, including King Lear, Macbeth, and Cymbeline.
Holinshed, Raphael
Hendry Denham
1587
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The First and Second Volumes of Chronicles
Raphael Holinshed intended his “universal cosmographie” both as a comprehensive geographical and historical description and as a testament to the growing influence and prestige of English scholarship. This edition was heavily censored after publication because of its controversial interpretation of political events of the time. It has been recognized as one of Shakespeare’s most important sources. Shakespeare gleaned the basic plots of nearly all of his historical plays from Holinshed, including King Lear, Macbeth, and Cymbeline.
Holinshed, Raphael
Hendry Denham
1587
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The Workes of Beniamin Johnson [sic]
Shakespeare and Jonson were mutual admirers of each other's works. This publication of Jonson’s nine works in one volume established the idea of plays as serious literature worthy of scholarly attention. The publication of Shakespeare’s First Folio followed this example of anthologizing multiple works in one volume.
Johnson, Ben
Will Stansby
1616
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Notes Upon Some of Shakespeare's Plays
Fanny Kemble drew from her many experiences starring in Shakespeare’s plays to write this book. Kemble was a prolific diarist and published her journals she authored while traveling abroad. Her other publications include Records of a Girlhood (1878), Records of a Later Life (1882), Far Away and Long Ago (1889), and Further Records (1891). Kemble died in London on January 15, 1893.
Kemble, Fanny
R. Bentley & Sons
1882
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The Tragicall Historie of the Life and Reigne of Richard the Third [sic]
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) was an English statesman, author, social philosopher, and Lord Chancellor. He was executed by Henry VIII for his opposition to the King's schism with the Catholic Church. Shakespeare was very familiar with More’s History of Richard III, which included references to Greek and Roman authors who examined the events leading to civil wars. Both men offered an unfavorable account of Richard III’s reign due to their allegiance to the Tudor family and its struggle to wrest the throne from the monarch.
More, Sir Thomas
Paine and M. Simmons
1641
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Ovid
As a child, Shakespeare attended King's New School in Stratford where he was instructed in Latin literature and history. The classic poets he studied in his youth greatly influenced his work. He was particularly fond of Virgil and Ovid; the latter is thought to be his favorite author.
Ovid
Roger Daniel
1640
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The Stage and Its Stars
This book includes 112 full-plate photogravures and several hundred additional lithographs of Shakespearean actors of the nineteenth century. The photogravure process is a late-nineteenth-century technique whereby paper reproductions are made from applying ink to an engraving on a metal plate. They are intended to resemble photographs such as that of William Terris as Romeo. As one could surmise, this process is painstaking and very expensive.
Paul, Howard
Gebbie
1890
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The History of the World
Raleigh wrote this history while imprisoned in the Tower of London from 1603 to 1616 for his alleged role in the plot to remove King James I from the throne. It was published after his first expedition to the New World. Masked within the recounting of these ancient stories are subtle warnings about the political situations taking place in England during the seventeenth century. Consequently, the book was suppressed. The illustrations on the title page can be interpreted using the key on the facing page. Raleigh, a poet, explorer, soldier, and courtier, was a contemporary of Shakespeare and lived an adventurous and swashbuckling life.
Raleigh, Sir Walter
Walter Burre
1614
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Man v' Ape in the Play of Ear-ce-Rammed
An unusual contribution to the Bacon-Shakespeare controversy, Man v’ Ape is, with great license, a copiously annotated edition of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Samuels uses numeric, symbolic, linguistic, and Biblical interpretations to posit that Francis Bacon (a contemporary of Shakespeare and Samuels’ presumed ‘true’ author of Hamlet) had predicted the coming of Samuels as the reincarnated Jehovah in order to lead the Jewish people into an independent state in Palestine.
Samuels, Philip Francis
Samuels-Bacon Publishing
1933
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