UNDER CONSTRUCTION

INTERMEDIATE

SELF-HELP BOOKS (ALL LEVELS)

• Barton, John. Playing Shakespeare: An Actor’s Guide. London: Methuen, 1984
• Basil, John. Will Power: How To Act Shakespeare In 21 Days. New York: Applause, 2006
• Berry, Cicely. The Actor And The Text. London: Harrap, 1987
• Berry, Cicely. Text in Action. London: Virgin Books, 2001
• Block, Giles. Speaking the Speech. London: Nick Hern Books, 2013
• Crystal, Ben. Shakespeare on Toast. Icon Books, 2012
• Dunmore, Simon. Alternative Shakespeare Auditions. London: A & C Black, 2001
• Fantasia, Louis. Instant Shakespeare. London: A & C Black, 2004
• Freeman, Neil. The Applause First Folio of Shakespeare in Modern Type. (Introduction) New York: Applause, 2001
• Hall, Peter. Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players. London: Oberon, 2003
• Harold, Madd. The Actor's Guide To Performing Shakespeare. Vancouver? Lone Eagle, 2002
• Jago, Martin. To Play or Not to Play. 30 Games for Acting Shakespeare. New Hampshire: Smith and Krauss, 2012
• Joseph, Bertram. Acting Shakespeare. Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare in Performance. Hardback 2014, Paper back 2016. (First published 1960.)
• Kaiser, Scott. Mastering Shakespeare: An Acting Class In Seven Scenes. Allworth Press, 2003
• Kaiser, Scott. Shakespeare’s Wordcraft. Limelight, 2007
• Linklater, Kristin. Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice. New York: Theatre Communications Group,1992
• Rodenburg, Patsy. Speaking Shakespeare. London: Methuen, 2002
• Silverbrush, Rhona and Plotkin, Sami. Speak the Speech! Shakespeare’s Monologues Illuminated. Faber & Faber, 2002
• Tucker, Patrick. Secrets Of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach. New York: Routledge, 2002
• Tucker, Patrick. First Folio Speeches for Men. London: Oberon, 1997
• Tucker, Patrick. First Folio Speeches for Women. London: Oberon, 1997
• Van Tassel, Wesley. Clues To Acting Shakespeare. New York: Allworth Press, 2000

ANNOTATIONS & GLOSSARY

• Abbott, E.A. A Shakespearean Grammar. London: Macmillan, 1869. Reprinted by General Books, Memphis, 2010
• Blake, N.F. A Grammar of Shakespeare’s Language. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002
• Coye, Dale. Pronouncing Shakespeare's Words. Routledge 2002
• Crystal, David And Crystal, Ben. Shakespeare’s Words. A Glossary & Language Companion. London: Penguin, 2004 (see also www.shakespeareswords.com/glossary below under Internet)
• Crystal, David. The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation. Oxford University Press, 2016 (see also www.oup.com below under Internet)
• Kiernan, Pauline. Filthy Shakespeare. London: Quercus, 2006
• Logan, Gary. The Eloquent Shakespeare. A Pronouncing Dictionary for the Complete Dramatic Works with Notes to Untie the Modern Tongue. University of Chicago Press, 2012
• Onions, C.T. A Shakespeare Glossary. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986
• Oxford English Dictionary Online. www.oed.com
• Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare’s Bawdy. London: Routledge Classics, 2001
• Scheeder, Louis and Younts, Shane Ann. All the Words on Stage: A Complete Pronunciation Dictionary for the plays of William Shakespeare. Smith & Krauss, 2002
• Schmidt, Alexander. Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation, Vol. 1 & 2. London: Dover Publications, 1971
• Wells, Stanley. Looking for Sex in Shakespeare. Cambridge university Press, 2004

ACADEMIC & OTHER REFERENCES (printed)

• Alexander, Peter. Shakespeare’s Punctuation. London: Cumberlege, 1945
• Berry, Ralph. Castings and Metamorphoses. Routledge Library Editions: Shakespeare in Performance, 2014. (First published by Macmillan, 1993.)
• Blake, N.F. A Grammar of Shakespeare's Language. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002
• Blakemore Evans, G. (ed.) Elizabethan-Jacobean Drama: The Theatre in Its Time. London: Black, 1998
• Blayney, Peter W.M. The First Folio of Shakespeare. Washington. DC: Folger Library Publications, 1991
• Bowers, Fredson. 'Establishing Shakespeare’s Text: Notes on Short Lines and the Problem of Verse Division'. SB (1980): 74-130
• Elscolme, Bridget. Talking to the Audience: Shakespeare, Performance, Self. London: Routledge, 2005
• Elscolme, Bridget. Emotional Excess on the Shakespearean Stage. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2013
• Freeman, Neil. Shakespeare’s First Texts. Vancouver: Folio Scripts, 1994
• Fogerty, Elsie. The Speaking of English Verse. London: J.M. Dent, 1923
• Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare’s London. Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642. Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespeare Company 1594–1642. Cambridge University Press, 2010
• Hall, Peter. Exposed by the Mask. London: Oberon, 2000
• Hinman, Charlton. The Printing and Proof-reading of the First Folio of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963
• Joseph, Sister Miriam. Shakespeare’s Use of The Arts Of Language. Martino Fine Books, 2013
• Karim-Cooper, Farah & Stern, Tiffany. Shakespeare’s Theatres and The Effects of Performance. London: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2013
• Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare’s Language. London: Penguin, 2000
• McDonald, Russ. Shakespeare and the Arts of Language. Oxford University Press, 2001
• Palfrey, Simon and Stern, Tiffany. Shakespeare in Parts. Oxford, University Press 2011
• Partridge, A.C. Orthography In Shakespeare and Elizabethan Drama. London: Edward Arnold, 1964
• Poel, William. Shakespeare in the Theatre. CreateSpace, 2015 (originally published 1913)
• Rokison, Abigail. Shakespearean Verse Speaking. Cambridge University Press, 2009
• Rutter, Carol. Clamorous Voices. London: Women’s Press, 1988
• Saccio, Peter. Shakespeare’s English Kings. Oxford University Press, 2000
• Stern, Tiffany. Making Shakespeare. Stage to Page. Accents on Shakespeare (General Editor: Terence Hawkes). Routledge, 2004
• Stern, Tiffany. Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000
• Taylor, Gary and Jowett, John (eds.) Shakespeare Reshaped 1606-1623. Oxford: Clarendon, 2000
• Wells, Stanley and Taylor, Gary, et al. William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion. Oxford: Clarendon, 1987
• Wilson, Thomas. The Art of Rhetorique. London, 1553
• Wright, George T. Shakespeare’s Metrical Art. Berkeley. University of California Press, 1988
• Weingust, Don. Acting from Shakespeare’s First Folio: Theory, Text and Performance. London: Routledge, 2006

ACADEMIC & OTHER REFERENCES (Internet)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth last accessed 2015.07.26 (this is an example - all 38 plays constantly accessed)
• http://www.shakespeareswords.com/ constantly accessed - this is the online companion to A Glossary & Language Companion by David Crystal and Ben Crystal (see above)
• http://www.oed.com/ Oxford English Dictionary constantly accessed
• http://global.oup.com/ constantly accessed - this is the online companion to The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation by David Crystal (see above)
• http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org constantly accessed
• https://www.howmanysyllables.com constantly accessed
• http://dictionary.cambridge.org constantly accessed
• http://www.memidex.com constantly accessed
• http://www.thefreedictionary.com constantly accessed
• http://prescannedshakespeare.aruffo.com constantly accessed

EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE (Complete Works)

• Bate, Jonathan and Rasmussen, Eric. The RSC Shakespeare: William Shakespeare, Complete Works. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2007
• Harbage, Alfred. The Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Penguin Books Australia, 1984
• Hinman, Charlton (ed.) Norton Facsimile: The First Folio of Shakespeare. 2nd edn. London: Norton, 1996
• Levin, Harry and Baker, Herschel, et al. The Riverside Shakespeare. Houghton Mifflin, 1997
• Orgel, Stephen and Braunmuller, A.R. The Complete Pelican Shakespeare. Penguin Books 2002
• Thompson, Ann and Scott Kastan, David, et al. Arden Shakespeare Complete Works. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, 2011
• Wells, Stanley and Taylor, Gary, et al. The Oxford Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Oxford University Press, 1987

EDITIONS OF SHAKESPEARE (Individual Plays)

• Please see the bibliography in the individual ePlays or in MATERIAL BY PLAY in the Quick Reference Library

LECTURES & WORKSHOPS ON DVD

• Barton, John. Playing Shakespeare. (Based on the 1984 book listed above in SELF-HELP section)
• Conner, Marc C. How to Read and Understand Shakespeare. The Teaching Company, 2010
• McKellen, Ian. Acting Shakespeare. His 1980 one-man 'lecture-come-performance' show directed by Kirk Browning. DVD release June, 2010
• Saccio, Peter. The Word and the Action. The Teaching Company, 1995
• Saccio, Peter. William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories & Tragedies. The Teaching Company, 2005

FILM & TV PRODUCTIONS

• BBC Television Shakespeare. (Unabridged) 1978 onwards
• The History Cycle (R2, H4 Pts 1 & 2, H5, H6 Pts 1-3, R3)
• An Age of Kings. BBC, 1960
• Anthony & Cleopatra
• Coriolanus
• Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler. xx, 2012
• Hamlet
• Kenneth Branagh.
• Laurence Olivier.
• Henry V
• Kenneth Branagh.
• Laurence Olivier. Rank Film, 1945
• King Lear
• Laurence Olivier.
• Julius Caesar
• Macbeth
• Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard. 2015
• Kenneth Branagh, Alex Kingston. NT Live, 2013
• Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood. Chichester Festival, 2010
• Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill. Australia, 2006
• Antony Sher, Harriet Walter. RSC, 2001
• Jason Connery, Helen Baxendale. 1997
• Ian Mckellan, Judi Dench. Thames Television, 1978
• Jon Finch, Francesca Annis. 1971 (Polankski)
• Merchant of Venice, The
• Al Pacino, Jeremy Irons. MGM, 2005
• Midsummer Night’s Dream
• Much Ado Nothing
• Kenneth Brannagh, Emma Thompson.
• Othello
• Richard II.
• David Tennant. RSC, 2013
• Fiona Shaw.
• Richard III.
• Looking for Richard. Al Pacino. Fox Searchlight Pictures, 2005
• Laurence Olivier.
• Romeo & Juliet
• Leonardo di Caprio, Claire Danes. 20th Century Fox, 1999
• Tempest
• Taming of the Shrew
• Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor.

AUDIO RECORDINGS

• The Complete Arkangel Shakespeare. (Unabridged) 1998 onwards
• Shakespeare: The Complete Works. Decca. The Marlowe Dramatic Society & Professional Players. Globe 400th Anniversary Edition

BEGINNERS

• Elizabethan Stage Conventions http://www.thedramateacher.com/elizabethan-theatre-conventions/
• Schoerbaum, S. Shakespeare’s Lives.