Shakespeare on Stage

A sample of upcoming productions around the world.

American Shakespeare Center, A Mad World, My Masters. To Apr. 7, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, Philaster, or Love Lies a-Bleeding. To Apr. 6, 2012.
Orlando Shakespeare Theater in Partnership with UCF, Romeo and Juliet. To Mar. 17, 2012.
Atlanta Shakespeare Company, Romeo and Juliet. To Feb. 29, 2012.
American Shakespeare Center, Dido, Queen of Carthage. To Apr. 7, 2012.

City life

  1. Archer, Ian W. The Pursuit of Stability: Social Relations in Elizabethan London. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1991.
  2. Barroll, J. Leeds. Politics, Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The Stuart Years. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991.
  3. Barry, Jonathan, ed. The Tudor and Stuart Town: A Reader in English Urban History, 1530-1688. New York: Longman, 1990.
  4. Burford, E. J. Bawds and Lodgings: A History of the London Bankside Brothels. London: Peter Owen, 1976.
  5. Burford, E. J. The Orrible Synne: A Look at London Lechery from Roman to Cromwellian Times. London: Calder & Boyars, 1973.
  6. Clark, Cumberland. The Eternal Shakespeare. London: Williams & Norgate, 1930.
  7. Clark, Peter, and Paul Slack, eds. Crisis and Order in English Towns, 1500-1700: Essays in Urban History. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1972.
  8. Cohen, Derek. Shakespeare's Culture of Violence. London: Macmillan, 1993.
  9. Dillon, Janette. Theatre, Court and City, 1595-1610: Drama and Social Space in London. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  10. Fischer, Sandra K.. Econolingua: A Glossary of Coins and Economic Language in Renaissance Drama. Newark, NJ: University of Delaware Press, 1985.
  11. Forbes, Thomas R. Chronicle from Aldgate. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1971.
  12. Griswold, Wendy.. Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.
  13. Gurr, Andrew. Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  14. Hattaway, Michael. Elizabethan Popular Theatre: Plays in Performance. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  15. Hibbert, Francis A. The Influence and Development of English Guilds. New York: Augustus Kelley, 1970.
  16. Jack, Sybil M. Trade and Industry in Tudor and Stuart England. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1977.
  17. Jones, Norman. God and the Moneylenders: Usury and Law in Early Modern England. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
  18. Judges, A.V.. The Elizabethan Underworld. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd., 1965 [1930].
  19. Karras, Ruth. "The Regulation of Brothels in Later Medieval England." Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 14 (1989): 426.
  20. Kellogg, A. O. Shakespeare's Delineations of Insanity, Imbecility, and Suicide. New York: A.M.S. Press, 1971 [1866].
  21. Kinney, Arthur F, ed. Rogues, Vagabonds & Sturdy Beggars: A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature Exposing the Lives, Times, and Cozening Tricks of the Elizabethan Underworld. Amherst: U of Massachusetts P, 1990.
  22. Lindsay, Jack, ed. Loving Mad Tom: Bedlamite Verses of the Xvi and Xvii Centuries. Welwyn Garden City, Herts: Seven Dials Press, 1969 (1927).
  23. MacDonald, Michael. Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety and Healing in Seventeenth Century England. Trans. RC438/M27. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
  24. Manley, Lawrence, ed. London in the Age of Shakespeare: An Anthology. London: Croom Helm, 1986.
  25. Marshburn, Joseph H., and Alan R. Velie, eds. Blood and Knavery; a Collection of English Renaissance Pamphlets and Ballads of Crime and Sin. Rutherford NJ: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1973.
  26. McMullan, John L.. The Canting Crew: London's Criminal Underworld, 1550-1700. New Brunswick, N.J: Rutgers University Press, 1984.
  27. McPeek, James Andrew Scarborough.. The Black Book of Knaves and Unthrifts, in Shakespeare and Other Renaissance Authors. Storrs: University of Connecticut, 1969.
  28. Neaman, Judith S. Suggestion of the Devil: The Origins of Madness. New York: Doubleday, 1975.
  29. Paster, Gail Kern. The Idea of the City in the Age of Shakespeare. Athens GA: University of Georgia Press, 1985.
  30. Rappaport, Steve. Worlds within Worlds: Structures of Life in Sixteenth-Century London. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  31. Reed, Robert R. Bedlam on the Jacobean Stage. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
  32. Salgado, Gamini. The Elizabethan Underworld. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1977.
  33. Shesgreen, Sean, ed. The Criers and Hawkers of London. Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1990.
  34. Slack, Paul. The English Poor Law, 1531-1782. Basingstoke: Macmillan Education, 1990.
  35. Slack, Paul. From Reformation to Improvement: Public Welfare in Early Modern England. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999.
  36. Slack, Paul. The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1985.
  37. Slack, Paul. Poverty and Policy in Tudor and Stuart England. London: Longman, 1988.
  38. Wheatley, Henry Benjamin and Peter Cunningham. London, Past and Present; a Dictionary of Its History, Associations, and Traditions. Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1968. 3 vols.
  39. Whitney, Charles. "'Usually in the Werking Daies': Playgoing Journeymen, Apprentices, and Servants in Guild Records, 1582-92." Shakespeare Quarterly 50.4 (1999): 433-58.
  40. Woodbridge, Linda. Vagrancy, Homelessness, and English Renaissance Literature. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
  41. Wright, Louis B. Middle Class Culture in Elizabethan England. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Pr, 1935.
  42. Zimmerman, Susan, and Ronald F.E. Weissman, eds. Urban Life in the Renaissance. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 1989.