Editions
Bantam editions. Contains selected annotated bibliography and selections from Shakespeare's sources.
Cambridge School Shakespeare. Contains wonderful essays, pictures, activities for teaching at the high school level. Folger Shakespeare. Contains a summary of each scene along with annotations. Selected bibliography.
Folger Shakespeare Library editions. Eds. Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine. Washington Square Press. Good annotations and illustrations. Summaries of each scene. Selected bibliography.
Moston, Doug. The First Folio of Shakespeare, 1623. NY: Applause, 1995. A facsimile of the first "collected works" of Shakespeare, with the collection supervised after Shakespeare's death by his colleagues John Heminge and Henrie Condell.
Signet Classics. Contains text, essays including sources and theater history. Selected bibliography.
Variorum text. Contains text, sources, notes on critical commentary, notes on editing.
Bate, Jonathan and Russell Jackson, editors. England: Oxford UP, 1996. Wonderful sketches and pictures of productions over four centuries.
Bergeron, David M. and Geraldo U. deSousa. Shakespeare: A Study and Research Guide. 3rd ed., rev. Lawrence, KS: UP of Kansas, 1995. Introduction to critical approaches and scholarly resources, with a section on writing and documenting a term paper.
Berman, Ronald. A Reader's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays: A Discursive Bibliography. Rev. ed. Glenview, IL: Scott Foresman, 1973. Essays on major critical opinion, play by play.
Blake, Norman.Shakespeare's Language: An Introduction. NY: St. Martin's Press, 1983. A general introduction to Elizabethan English, giving possible meanings for problematic constructions.
Boyce, Charles. Shakespeare A to Z. NY: Laurel, Dell, 1990. Reference book with entries on plays (scene-by-scene summary, commentary, sources and theatrical history), characters, actors, historical people. For the general reader. Selected bibliography.
Bullough, Geoffrey. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare, 8 vols. NY: Columbia UP, 1957-1975.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare. NY: William Morrow, 1992. Recent, readable biography of Shakespeare and his times.
Modern Language Association annual bibliography. Now searchable on CD-ROM (under electronic collections at workstations in the library).
O'Brien, Peggy, editor. Shakespeare Set Free: Teaching Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Volume One in the Folger Library series. NY: Washington Square Press, 1993. A wonderful set of ideas and copyable handouts for teaching the plays in a high-school format with lesson plans and calendars.
Papp, Joseph and Elizabeth Kirkland. Shakespeare Alive! NY: Bantam, 1988. A lively introduction to Elizabethan thought, Shakespeare's sources and theatre and stage history of Shakespearean production.
Partridge, Eric. Shakespeare's Bawdry. Rev. ed. NY: Dutton, 1955. A glossary of bawdy words and phrases.
Rothwell, Kenneth S. and Annabelle Henkin Melzer. Shakespeare on Screen : An International Filmography and Videography. London: Mansell, 1990. Exhaustive list of screen materials, organized by play and date of production. Includes critical reception, names of personnel in production, information about distributors.
Shakespeare Quarterly. Annual bibliography that is exhaustive on articles, productions, editions, translations of Shakespeare. Annotated entries.
Spevack, Marvin. The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare. Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1973. Lists all the words in Shakespeare's works with reference to plays. (6 vol. version gives words play by play and character by character)
Wells, Stanley, ed. Shakespeare: A Bibliographical Guide. New edition. NY: Oxford UP, 1990.
Ball, William and Kirk Browning, directors. Taming of the Shrew. Video of stage production, American Conservatory Theatre, San Francisco, 1976. Marc Singer as Petruchio and Fredi Olster as Kate.
George, Sidney, director. Kiss Me, Kate. Cole Porter adaptation. MGM, Film, 1953. Kathryn Grayson and Howard Keel.
Kiss Me, Petruchio. Film showing excerpts of the 1978 production by the New York City Shakespeare company at the Delacorte Theatre in Central Park. Director Wilford Leach, Meryl Streep as Katherine, Raul Julia as Petruchio, Joel Brooke as Grumio, Larry Pine as Hortensio, Max Gulack as Baptista, photographer Christopher Dixon, producer Joseph Papp. Chicago: Films Incorporated Video, 1989.
Miller, Jonathan, director. Taming of the Shrew. Television production, British Broadcasting Corporation, 1981. With John Cleese as Petruchio and Sarah Badel as Katherina.
Nickell, Paul, director. Taming of the Shrew. Television production, Westinghouse Studio One, 5 June 1950. With Charlton Heston as Petruchio and Lisa Kirk as Katherina.
Salin, Catherine, director. Student production of 4.5 for English L315 (Major Plays of Shakespeare) in Spring 1995. Videotape, 1995. With Scott Schmidt as Petruchio, Paula Goodwin as Kate and Robert Williams as Vincentio.
Taylor, Sam, director. Taming of the Shrew. United Artists, 1929. With Douglas Fairbanks as Petruchio and Mary Pickford as Katherine.
Zeffirelli, Franco, director. Taming of the Shrew. Film. 1966. With Elizabeth Taylor as Kate and Richard Burton as Petruchio.
Barnet, Sylvan. "The Taming of the Shrew on Stage and Screen." In Robert B. Heilman (ed.), The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Updated edition, Signet Classics. NY: Penguin, 1986. Pp. 213-223.
Bean, John C. "Comic Structure and the Humanizing of Kate in The Taming of the Shrew." In Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Greene and Carol Thomas Neely, eds. The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare. Urbana, U of Illinois P, 1983. Pp. 65-78.
Frye, Northrup. The Anatomy of Criticism. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1957. Seasonal theory of genres.
Heilman, Robert B. "The Taming Untamed, or, The Return of the Shrew." Modern Language Quarterly 27 (1966): 147-61.
Hosley, Richard. "Sources and Analogues of The Taming of the Shrew ." In Robert B. Heilman (ed.), The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Updated edition, Signet Classics. NY: Penguin, 1986. Pp. 161-187.
Mullen, Ruth. "Preying Partners: Modern Converts to the Ancient Sport of Falconry Take Their Wildness on the Wing." Indianapolis Star, 10 March 1994, B 1-2. On falconry in general and falconer Mark Booth and hawk Maya in particular.