LibGuides: Shakespeare: All Things Shakespeare

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An AUTHOR search of "SHAKESPEARE" the CFCC Library catalog results in 173 results, but a SUBJECT search results in 244.

A Companion to Shakespeare's Works by Richard Dutton (Editor); Jean E. Howard (Editor)
Call Number: Wilm Reference Books PR 2976 .C572 2003
ISBN: 063122632X
Publication Date: 2003-06-27
4 volumes
v. 1. The tragedies -- v. 2. The histories -- v. 3. The comedies -- v. 4. Poems, problem comedies, late plays.
Contested Will : Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PR 2937 .S47 2010
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Shakespeare in an Hour by Christopher Baker
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PR 2987 .B35 2010
Contents: Shakespeare: in a minute -- Shakespeare: his works -- Onstage with Shakespeare: introducing colleagues and contemporaries of William Shakespeare -- Shakespeare in an hour -- Dramatic moments from the major plays -- Shakespeare: the reading room
Soul of the Age : A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PR 2894 .B28 2009
Tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.
Think on My Words : Exploring Shakespeare's Language by David Crystal
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PR 3072 .C79 2008
A Thousand Times More Fair : What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice by Kenji Yoshino
Call Number: Wilm Circulating Books PR 3028 .Y67 2011
Looks at the roles of justice and law in the lives of modern-day people through the lens of Shakespeare's plays.

Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg has over 400 works by and about Shakespeare, including translations into various languages and older works of criticism now out of copyright

Fun with the Bard

The Folger Library has lots of serious material relating to Shakespeare and his works, but they know how to have fun, too.

Click to play some Shakespeare Games.

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Shakespeare Documented

Shakespeare Documented
Shakespeare Documented is the largest and most authoritative collection of primary-source materials documenting the life of William Shakespeare (1564-1616), bringing together all known manuscript and print references to Shakespeare, his works, and additional references to his family, in his lifetime and shortly thereafter.

Video Adaptations

Many of Shakespeare's 38 plays have been made into movies. Some follow the original play closely. CFCC Library has, for example.

Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare

19 movies produced by the BBC and Time-Life
Call Numbers : DVD PR 2801 through DVD PR 2834

Others are modern adaptations that may use only the general plot.

For more information on movies loosely based on Shakespeare's palys, check out A Literary Odyssey blog or Rotten Tomatoes' Greatest Shakespeare Movies.

Anonymous
Call Number: Wilm DVDs PN 1995.9 .H5 A56 2012
ISBN: 0043396394346
Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and-dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for the power of the throne? Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
West Side Story
Call Number: Wilm DVDs PN 1995.9 .M86 W473 2003
This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s.