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English 11 - Nick Radel
(Shakespeare- The History Plays)
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Reference Sources - History

Check out some of Shakespeare's own History Sources in the Library:

Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland DA130 .H74 1965

Shakespeare's Holinshed; The Chronicle and the Historical Plays Compared PR2955.H7 B7 1966

Holinshed's Chronicle as Used in Shakespeare's Plays- AC1 .E8 no.800



 

 

General and Reference Sources - Grammar
Source Location
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays
PR2982 .C29 2002
The Drama of Power; Studies in Shakespeare's History Plays PR2982 .P7
A Kingdom for a Stage; The Achievement of Shakespeare's History Plays PR2982 .O7
Shakespeare's History Plays: The Family and the State PR2982 .P5
The Columbia dictionary of quotations from Shakespeare PR2892 .F48 1998
A companion to Shakespeare's works PR2976 .C572 2003
A complete and systematic concordance to the works of Shakespeare PR2892 .S6
Dictionary of Shakespeare PR2892 .M27 2000
A dictionary of the characters & proper names in the works of Shakespeare : with notes on the sources and dates of the plays and poems PR2892 .S67 1949a
The Shakespeare companion PR2976 .E9 1978b
A glossary of words, phrases, names, and allusions in the works of English authors particularly of Shakespeare and his contemporaries PE1667 .N32
A new variorum edition of Shakespeare PR2753 .F5 1963
The Oxford companion to Shakespeare PR2892 .O94 2001
The Penguin Shakespeare dictionary PR2892 .P45 1999
The reader's encyclopedia of Shakespeare PR2892 .C3
Shakespeare : an illustrated dictionary PR2892 .W45
A Shakespeare companion, 1550-1950 PR2892 .H3
The Shakespeare key; a comprehensive guide to all features of Shakespeare's style, dramatic construction, and expression PR2892 .C45 1961
Shakespeare-lexicon : a complete dictionary of all the English words, phrases and constructions in the works of the poet PR2892 .S4 1902
Shakespeare's names: a pronouncing dictionary PR3081 .K57
Shakespeare's proverbial language : an index PR2892 .D43 1981
A Shakespeare thesaurus PR2892 .S624 1993
William Shakespeare : a documentary volume PN451 .D5 v.263


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