Anthony James West, The Shakespeare First Folio, vol. 1 The History of the book; vol. 2 Worldwide Census (2001; 2003)—Folger call number: Z8813 .W48 2001 Copies 1 and 2, RR Peter W.M. Blayney, First Folio of Shakespeare (1991)—Folger call number: Z8811 .B62 1991 Copy 1 RR The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, ed. De Grazia and Wells (2nd ed. 2010)—Folger call number: PR2894 .C33 2010 Andrew Murphy, Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing (2003)—Folger call number: PR3071 M87 2003 copy 2 RR

The Theater Collection at the Museum of the City of New York contains over 200,000 accessioned objects that document theatrical performance in New York City from 1785 to present day Broadway productions. The Collection contains a wide range of material types such as annotated scripts, articles, contracts, correspondence, design renderings, drawings, ephemera, memorabilia, photographs, personal papers, posters, prints, props, scores, sheet music, scrapbooks, window cards, 3-D objects, and architectural elements. With significant material on Broadway productions and related personalities, the Collection charts the expansion of commercial theater along Broadway to the establishment of the current theater district in Times Square. The story of Broadway is augmented with smaller collections on popular entertainment forms: burlesque, minstrelsy, vaudeville, and circus. Large gifts on composers and lyricists Harry B. Smith, George M. Cohan, Howard Dietz, and Betty Comden document the evolution of musical theater as an artistic form. A collection on Yiddish theater reveals how an immigrant culture created vibrant and commercially viable performance traditions that maintained a lasting impact. Stanley Wells, William Shakespeare: a very short introduction (2015)—Folger call number: PR2976 .W367 2015 James Shapiro, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (2005)—Folger call number: PR2907 .S47 2005 Alan C. Dessen and Leslie Thomson, Dictionary of Stage Directions in English Drama, 1580-1642 (1999)—Folger call number: PR658 .S59 D47 1999 Copy 1 R.R.The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Dobson and Wells (new ed. 2015)—Folger call number: PR2892 .O94 2015 The Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare, ed. Campbell and Quinn (1966)—Folger call number: PR2892 .C3 copy 1 RR S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: a Documentary Life, 2 vols. (1975)—Folger call number: PR2894 .S31 copy 1 RR; PR2894 .S33 1981 copy 1 RR

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, ed. Smith (2016)—Folger call number: PR2976 .C295 2016 The various Companions provide articles on special subjects such as the Chamberlain’s-King’s Men; Licensing and Censorship; Reading the Bible and the Classics; Shakespeare and Race, Sexuality and Gender; Popular Culture; Media History; and Shakespeare’s London. Shakespeare’s Theatres and the Effects of Performance, ed. Farah Karim Cooper and Tiffany Stern (2013)—Folger call number: PR3091 S53 2013

Book contents

Gary Logan, The Eloquent Shakespeare: a Pronouncing Dictionary (2008)—Folger call number: PR3081 .L64 2008 Interpretive questions involving words and lines: best answered by looking at the notes in the Folger edition and the new Arden, followed by the new Cambridge and Oxford editions (all in the Reading Room). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage, ed. Stanley Wells and Sarah Stanton (2002)—Folger call number: PR3091 .C36 2002 (Provides a history of Shakespeare in the theater from his own times to the modern era.) Classic, historical review of the documentary evidence for Shakespeare’s life. Should now be used with Shakespeare Documented for most current interpretation. Tiffany Stern, Documents of Performance in Early Modern England (2009)—Folger call number: PR658 .T4 S74 2009

Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642, 4th ed. (2009)—Folger call number: PN2590 .S7 G9 2009 Of course not! The OSS management values your time. Enter the exact word form you want in the box above Louis Colaianni, Shakespeare’s Names: a New Pronouncing Dictionary (2001)—Folger call number: PR3081 .C83 1999Nice YouTube piece on original pronunciation done by Linguist Ben Crystal with his actor son Ben Crystal at the New Globe in London. Shakespeare’s Original Pronunciation [sound recording – British Library Board, 2012]—Folger call number: CD 558 Foliomania!: Stories behind Shakespeare’s most important book, ed., by Owen Williams, with Caryn Lazzuri. (2011, 2016)—Folger call number: Folio PR3070 .F62 2011

Larger issues: “Texts and Contexts” series for 10 individual plays are excellent for discussions of important topics and excerpts from original source material – find by searching Bedford as keyword and “texts and contexts” as a keyword phrase in Hamnet. Robert Bearman, Shakespeare’s Money: How Much Did He Make and What Did This Mean? (2016)—Folger call number: PR2908 .B43 2016 Numbers of Words, Sentences, Speeches, Prose and Poetry in Shakespeare