An official list of works cited was always my least favorite part of writing an essay, but I’m trying to be responsible. So here’s a list of what I’ve read and watched so far! (And a sneak peek into some of the topics for future episodes.)
Plays
The Tempest, The Pelican Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, Folger edition
Primary Sources
Greene’s Groats-Worth of Wit (this is a scan of the original printing with pretty good notes underneath)
Henry Chettle’s apology to Shakespeare, or someone he refers to as the “best of living writers” (this is a scan of the original with no notes, so good luck reading the old school printing)
Copy of the drawing Johanne de Witt made of the interior of The Swan theater (the only known Elizabethan representation of the interior of a playhouse)
The catalogue page in the First Folio.
Secondary Sources
Bryson, Bill. Shakespeare: The World As Stage.
de Grazia, Margreta and Wells, Stanley. The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare.
Garber, Marjorie. Shakespeare After All.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare.
Kemp, Sawyer. “Shakespeare in Transition: Pedagogies of Transgender Justice and Performance.”
Kiernander, Adrian. “‘You’ll be the man! Homophobia and the Present in Performances of Twelfth Night and Romeo and Juliet” (Chapter in book Presentism, Gender, and Sexuality in Shakespeare)
Literary Hub. “Why We Should Celebrate the 400th Anniversary of Shakespeare’s First Folio.”
McDonald, Russ. The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare.
Montaigne, Michel Essays: “On Cannibals.”
Traub, Valerie. “The Homerotics of Shakespearean Comedy.” (Chapter in Shakespeare, Feminism, and Gender)
Movies
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021). Starring: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand.
Shakespeare in Love (1998). Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gwenyth Paltrow.
William Shakespeare’s Romeo + Juliet (1996). Starring: Claire Danes, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Videos & Podcasts
YouTube. Channel: Be Kind Rewind. Harvey Weinstein and the Oscars: How Gwyneth and Shakespeare in Love Won.
Shakespeare Anyone? Podcast episode: “Mini: Anne Hathaway, Shakespeare’s Wife”
Something Shakespeare This Way Comes 