Annotated Bibliography: Resources for Teachers
Adamson, Jane. Othello as Tragedy: Some Problems of Judgment and Feeling. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Excellent literary criticism of the tragedy with a special focus on how Shakespeare explores how people make sense of what happens in their lives, including what they imagine might be happening.
Beers, Kylene. When Kids Can't Read What Teachers Can Do. Portsmouth: Heinemann, 2003.
An effective text with strategies for struggling readers.
Bloom, Harold. The Merchant of Venice. New York: Bloom's Literary Criticism, 2008.
Most current collection of literary criticism.
Bloom, Harold. William Shakespeare's Macbeth. New Haven: Chelsea House Publisher, 1987.
Interesting analysis of Macbeth's obsession with time to the point when it becomes a paradox.
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Edited by Stanley Wells. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Excellent collections of essays by various authors about Shakespeare's life, arts of language, theatrical conventions, tradition of comedy and tragedy, and his use of history.
Clark, William, G. Wright, William, A. The Unabridged William Shakespeare. Philadelphia: Running Press, 1989.
A complete collection of Shakespeare's works with notes.
Danson, Lawrence. William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005.
Interesting analysis of specific contexts: Venetian socio-political-economic structure, or the Jewish community in England. This section outlines thematic connections to Shakespeare's sonnets and other texts.
Farstrup, Alan E.,Samuels S. Jay. eds. What Research Has to Say About Reading Instruction. Newark: International Reading Association, 2002.
Duke, Nell K., Pearson P. David. Effective Practices for Developing Reading Comprehension. Farstrup and Samuels 205-236.
A compelling chapter where the authors analyze, compare and contrast the validity of various strategies teachers use for an effective reading comprehension.
Grebanier, Bernard. The Truth About Shylock. New York: Random House, 1962.
Background of copious facts to understand Shylock as a dramatic entity.
Lang, Berel. Race and Racism in Theory and Practice. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, Inc., 1999.
Interesting analysis of the concept of race in twentieth century social and political history.
Loomba, Ania. Shakespeare, Race, and Colonialism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Excellent analysis of race in Shakespeare's works.
Nostbakken, Faith. Understanding Macbeth. n.p.: Greenwood Press, 1997.
Interesting historical and literary interpretation with a vision of the Shakespearean themes in contemporary events.
Edmund, Spencer. The Fairie Queene, in The Poetical Works of Edmund Spencer, ed. J.C. Smith and E. De Selincourt. London, 1912.
Interesting collection of Spenser's works.
Yaffe, Martin D. Shylock and the Jewish Question. Baltimore: The Johm Hopkins Univerity Press, 1997.
Interesting analysis challenging the widespread presumption that Shakespeare is unfriendly to Jews.
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