LEMDO Classroom: Hamlet: Bibliography

Edition: HamletHamlet: Bibliography

Editions Collated

Shakespeare, William. The tragicall historie of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke. London: Nicholas Ling and John Trundell, 1603. STC 22275. ESTC S111109. DEEP 347.

Secondary Sources

Bednarz, James P. Shakespeare and the Poets’ War, Columbia Uuniversity Press, 2001, New York.

Behrman, Cynthia Fansler. The Annual Blister: A Sidelight on Victorian Social and Parliamentary History. Victorian Studies 11.4 (1968): 483–502.

Bourus, Terri, ed. The Winter’s Tale. By William Shakespeare. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 2893–2973. WSB aaag2304.

The Book of Common Prayer. Oxford: University Press for the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1901.

Castiglione, Baldassarre. The courtyer of Count Baldessar Catilio diuided into foure bookes. Very necessary and profitatable for yonge gentilmen and gentilwomen abiding in court, plaice or place. Trans. Thomas Hoby. London: William Seres, 1561. STC 4778. ESTC S122029.

Connor, Francis X., ed. As You Like It. By William Shakespeare. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 1689–1755. WSB aaag2304.

Connor, Francis X., ed. The Tragedy of Coriolanus. By William Shakespeare. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 2723–2813. WSB aaag2304.

Connor, Francis X., ed. A Pleasant Conceited Comedy Called Love’s Labour’s Lost. By William Shakespeare. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 773–844. WSB aaag2304.

Fergusson, Francis. The Idea of a Theater. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949.

Fergusson, Francis. The Idea of a Theater: A Study of Ten Plays; The Art of Drama in Changing Perspective. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1953.

Gilbert, W.S., and Sullivan, Arthur. Iolanthe. 1882.

Harsnett, Samuel. A Declaration of Egregious Popish Impostures. London: James Roberts, 1603. STC 12880. ESTC S120922.

James VI and I. Daemonologie, in forme of a dialogue, diuided into three bookes. Edinburgh: Robert Waldgrave, 1597. STC 14364. ESTC S107574.

Jonson, Ben. Catiline his conspiracy. London: Printed by W. Stansby for Walter Burre, 1611. STC 14759. ESTC S107869. Greg 269a. DEEP 570.

Jonson, Ben. The fountaine of selfe-loue. Or Cynthias reuels. 1601. STC 14773. ESTC S109229. DEEP 320. Greg 181a(i).

Jonson, Ben. Seianus his fall. London: Printed by G. Elld for Thomas Thorpe, 1605. STC 14782. ESTC S109239.

Jowett, John, ed. King Lear and his Three Daughters. By William Shakespeare. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 2347–2433. WSB aaag2304.

Jowett, John, ed. The Tragedy of Macbeth. By William Shakespeare and Thomas Middleton. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 2501–2565. WSB aaag2304.

Jowett, John, ed. The Tragedy of Richard the Third. By William Shakespeare. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 543–638. WSB aaag2304.

Kramer, Heinrich. Malleus maleficarum. Speyer: Peter Drach, 1486–1487.

Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish tragedie. London: Edward White, 1592. STC 15086. ESTC S120308. DEEP 150.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. The Elementary Structures of Kinship. Trans. James Harle Bell, John Richard von Sturmer, and Rodney Needham. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1969.

Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Les structures élémentaires de la parenté. Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1949.

Loughnane, Rory, ed. The Second Part of Henry the Sixth; or, The First Part of the Contention. By William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 251–330. WSB aaag2304.

Loughnane, Rory, ed. The Comical History of the Merchant of Venice; or, The Jew of Venice. By William Shakespeare. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 1207–1273. WSB aaag2304.

Loughnane, Rory, ed. Twelfth Night; or, What you Will. By William Shakespeare. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 1827–1889. WSB aaag2304.

Marlowe, Christopher. The Jew of Malta. Ed. N.W. Bawcutt. Revels Plays. Manchester: Manchester University Press; rpt. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1978.

Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragedie of Dido Queene of Carthage. London: Thomas Woodcocke, 1594. STC 17441. ESTC S109880. DEEP 196.

Marston, John. Iack Drums entertainment: or The comedie of Pasquill and Katherine. London: Printed by Thomas Creede for Richard Olive, 1601. STC 7243. ESTC S105365. DEEP 314. Greg 177a.

North, Thomas, trans. The liues of the noble Grecians and Romanes, compared together by that graue learned philosopher and historiographer, Plutarke of Chæronea: translated out of Greeke into French by Iames Amyot, Abbot of Bellozane, Bishop of Auxerre, one of teh Kings priuy cousel, and great Amner of Fraunce, and out of French into Englishe, by Thomas North. London: Thomas Vautroullier, 1579. STC 20065. ESTC S121873.

OED: The Oxford English Dictionary. 2nd ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.

Pruitt, Anna, ed. The Tragedy of King Richard the Second. By William Shakespeare. The New Oxford Shakespeare. Ed. Gary Taylor, John Jowett, Terri Bourus, and Gabriel Egan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. 847–922. WSB aaag2304.

Scot, Reginald. Discoverie of Witchcraft. London, 1584. STC 21864. ESTC S116888.

Shakespeare, William. The most lamentable Romaine tragedie of Titus Andronicus. London: John Danter, 1594. STC 22328. ESTC S106004. DEEP 171.

Webster, John. The white divel, or, The Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Vrsini, Duke of Brachiano, With The Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona the famous Venetian Curtizan. London: Printed by Nicholas Okes for Thomas Archer, 1612. STC 25178. Greg 306a. ESTC S111501. DEEP 583.

Prosopography

David Bevington

David Bevington was the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of Chicago. His books include From Mankind to Marlowe (1962), Tudor Drama and Politics (1968), Action Is Eloquence (1985), Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience (2005), This Wide and Universal Theater: Shakespeare in Performance, Then and Now (2007), Shakespeare’s Ideas (2008), Shakespeare and Biography (2010), and Murder Most Foul: Hamlet Through the Ages (2011). He was the editor of Medieval Drama (1975), The Bantam Shakespeare, and The Complete Works of Shakespeare. The latter was published in a seventh edition in 2014. He was a senior editor of the Revels Student Editions, the Revels Plays, The Norton Anthology of Renaissance Drama, and The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Ben Jonson (2012). Professor Bevington passed away on August 2, 2019.

Donald Bailey

Eric Rasmussen

Eric Rasmussen is Regents Teaching Professor and Foundation Professor of English at the University of Nevada. He is co-editor with Sir Jonathan Bate of the RSC William Shakespeare Complete Works and general editor, with Paul Werstine, of the New Variorum Shakespeare. He has received the Falstaff Award from PlayShakespeare.com for Best Shakespearean Book of the Year in 2007, 2012, and 2013.

James D. Mardock

James Mardock is Associate Professor of English at the University of Nevada, Associate General Editor for the Internet Shakespeare Editions, and a dramaturge for the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival and Reno Little Theater. In addition to editing quarto and folio Henry V for the ISE, he has published essays on Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, and other Renaissance literature in The Seventeenth Century, Ben Jonson Journal, Borrowers and Lenders, and contributed to the collections Representing the Plague in Early Modern England (Routledge 2010) and Shakespeare Beyond Doubt (Cambridge 2013). His book Our Scene is London (Routledge 2008) examines Jonson’s representation of urban space as an element in his strategy of self-definition. With Kathryn McPherson, he edited Stages of Engagement (Duquesne 2013), a collection of essays on drama in post-Reformation England, and he is currently at work on a monograph on Calvinism and metatheatrical awareness in early modern English drama.

Kate LeBere

Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s Humanities Computing and Media Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.

Michael Best

Michael Best is Professor Emeritus at the University of Victoria, BC. He is the Founding Editor of the Internet Shakespeare Editions, of which he was the Coordinating Editor until 2017. In print, he has published editions of works of Elizabethan magic and huswifery, a collection of letters from the Australian goldfields, and Shakespeare on the Art of Love (2008). He contributed regular columns for the Shakespeare Newsletter on Electronic Shakespeares, and has written many articles and chapters for both print and online books and journals, principally on questions raised by the new medium in the editing and publication of texts. He has delivered papers and plenary lectures on electronic media and the Internet Shakespeare Editions at conferences in Canada, the USA, the UK, Spain, Australia, and Japan.

Navarra Houldin

Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

Rae S. Rostron

Rae is studying a BA in English Literature at Durham University. She is particularly interested in representations of grief and trauma in literature and is currently researching femicide in the novel. Rae has interned for Creative Media Agency (NYC) and is an acting student researcher for King College London’s Psychology Department exploring loneliness in students.

William Shakespeare

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