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ENGL 3123: Shakespeare’s Troubled Families: Index of Resources

An OER For Prof. Tanya Pollard

Bibliography of Resources

  • Some useful suggestions: https://mmthiele.medium.com/how-to-get-the-most-out-of-reading-shakespeare-46428766f302
  • podcast episode discussing Macbeth's murder: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep01-in-the-middle-of-a-murder-shakespeare-macbeth/id1565266817?i=1000519152917
  • Adelman, Janet. “‘Born of Woman’: Fantasies of Maternal Power in Macbeth.” In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth, edited by Harold Bloom, New ed., 33–60. Bloom’s Modern Critical Interpretations. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2010. http://site.ebrary.com/id/10403543.
  • Berger, Harry. “‘KING LEAR’: THE LEAR FAMILY ROMANCE.” The Centennial Review 23 (n.d.): 348.
  • Betts, Tim, and Hannah Betts. “A Note on a Phrase in Shakespeare’s Play King Lear: ‘A Plague upon Your Epileptic Visage.’” Seizure 7, no. 5 (October 1998): 407–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1059-1311(05)80011-1.
  • Chamberlain, Stephanie. “Fantasizing Infanticide: Lady Macbeth and the Murdering Mother in Early Modern England.” College Literature 32 (n.d.): 72.
  • Companion, Helen. “‘Not of Woman Born’: Lady Macbeth’s Cesarean Section.” Journal of the Wooden O 16 (August 1, 2017): 72–85.
  • Jensen, Phebe. “Causes in Nature: Popular Astrology in King Lear.” Shakespeare Quarterly 69 (2019): 205.
  • Kahn, Coppélia. “The Absent Mother in King Lear.” In Rewriting the Renaissance: The Discourses of Sexual Difference in Early Modern Europe, edited by Margaret W. Ferguson, Maureen Quilligan, and Nancy J. Vickers, Pbk. ed. Women in Culture and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987.
  • Knight, G.W. “King Lear and the Comedy of Grotesque. The Grotesque. New York: Infobase Publishing, Pp.115-135.” In The Grotesque, edited by Harold Bloom and Blake Hobby. Bloom’s Literary Themes. New York: Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2009. http://lccn.loc.gov/2008042984.
  • Levin, Joanna. “Lady MacBeth and the Daemonologie of Hysteria.” ELH 69, no. Spring (2002): 21–55.
  • Liebler, Naomi Conn. “Pelican Daughters: The Violence of Filial Ingratitude.” King Lear. – Shakespeare Gesellschaft 143 (2007). https://shakespeare-gesellschaft.de/shakespeare-jahrbuch/volume-143-2007/?lang=en.
  • McCoy, Richard C. “‘Look upon Me, Sir’: Relationships in King Lear.” Representations 81, no. 1 (February 1, 2003): 46–60. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2003.81.1.46.
  • Mentz, Steve. “Strange Weather in King Lear.” Shakespeare 6, no. 2 (June 1, 2010): 139–52. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450911003790216.
  • Michael Almereyda. Cymbeline, 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJRqRHALxXE.
  • Neill, Michael. “‘In Everything Illegitimate’: Imagining the Bastard in Renaissance Drama.” The Yearbook of English Studies 23 (1993): 270–92. https://doi.org/10.2307/3507984.
  • New Swan Shakespeare. 2018 Winters Tale, 2019. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiOaGICtMnQ.
  • Novy, Marianne. “Adopted Children and Constructions of Heredity, Nurture, and Parenthood in Shakespeare’s Romances.” In Childhood and Children’s Books in Early Modern Europe, 1550-1800, edited by Andrea Immel and Michael Witmore, 63–82. Children’s Literature and Culture. New York: Routledge, 2006. http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip062/2005030498.html.
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival. 1955 “Timon of Athens” Full Audio Production, 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fyFfyjkCuU.
  • Shakespeare Network. King Lear - Orson Welles - Peter Brook - Shakespeare - 1953 - HD Restored - 4K, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf-knQzfuM4.
  • ———. MACBETH - William Shakespeare - Ian McKellen - Judi Dench - HD RESTORED - 4K, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgEshHhnLqU.
  • Shakespeare, William. “Cymbeline.” The Folger SHAKESPEARE, February 7, 2019. https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/cymbeline/.
  • ———. “King Lear.” The Folger SHAKESPEARE, February 7, 2019. https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/king-lear/.
  • ———. “Macbeth.” The Folger SHAKESPEARE, February 1, 2019. https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/macbeth/.
  • ———. “The Winter’s Tale.” The Folger SHAKESPEARE, February 7, 2019. https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/the-winters-tale/.
  • ———. “Timon of Athens.” The Folger SHAKESPEARE, February 7, 2019. https://shakespeare.folger.edu/shakespeares-works/timon-of-athens/.
  • Skura, Meredith. “Dragon Fathers and Unnatural Children: Warring Generations in King Lear and Its Sources.” Comparative Drama 42 (n.d.): 121.
  • Stern, Jeffrey. “King Lear: The Transference of the Kingdom.” Shakespeare Quarterly 41 (n.d.): 299.