Resources – Reading lists for teachers and students
Adelman, Janet. 1992. Suffocating Mothers: Fantasies of Maternal Origin in
Shakespeare's Plays.
New York: Routeledge
Bloom, Harold. 1998. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
New York: Penguin Group.
This book contains essays on every play in the Shakespearean canon. The essays are excellent for students and teachers as a study in literary criticism.
Bradley, A.C. 2004. Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear,
and Macbeth.
London: Kessinger Publishing.
McCarthy, Mary. June 1962. "General Macbeth," in Harper's Magazine.
New York: Harper's Magazine, Co.
Neill, Michael, 1989 "Unproper Beds: Race, Adultery, and the Hideous in Othello,"
In Shakespeare Quarterly 40.
New York: Folger Shakespeare Library Press.
Shakespeare, William. 1998. The Tragedy of Macbeth.
New York: Penguin Group.
__________________. 1998. The Tragedy of Othello The Moor of Venice
New York: Penguin Group
__________________. 1998. The Taming of the Shrew.
New York: Penguin Group.
I recommend the Signet Editions of the plays for the Advanced Placement classes because they contain background information as well as critical essays on each of the plays.
Sprengnether, Madelon Gohlke, 1980" 'I wooed thee with my sword': Shakespeare's
Tragic Paradigms," in The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare, ed.Carolyn Ruth Swift Lenz, Gayle Green, and Carol Thomas Neely
Illinois: University of Illinois Press.
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