Reading for Term 1

• The Term 1 reading and weekly schedule can be viewed hereLink opens in a new window.
• The Talis reading list can be viewed hereLink opens in a new window.

Primary text to purchase:

• William Shakespeare, Henry IV Part 1 (Arden Shakespeare Third Series), ed. David Scott Kastan, 2002 – please purchase this edition and not any other. The text is available to purchase on Amazon Link opens in a new window(£11.15), resellers such as AbeBooksLink opens in a new window, and can be accessed digitally on Drama OnlineLink opens in a new window with your Warwick login.

Further reading and resources

On Holinshed:

• Heal, Felicity, Archer, Ian W. and Kewes Paulina [eds] (2013), The Oxford Handbook of Holinshed's ChroniclesLink opens in a new window, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Patterson, Annabel M. (1994) Reading Holinshed's ChroniclesLink opens in a new window, Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
• Woolf, Daniel & Chui, Jane Wong Yeang (2016) English Vernacular Historical Writing and Holinshed’s ChroniclesLink opens in a new window, in Malcolm Smuts [ed.] The Oxford Handbook of the Age of Shakespeare, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 213–230.

On Cox and Kirkman:

Reading:

• Lanier, Douglas (2002) 'Unpopularizing Shakespeare: A Short History' in Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 21-49.
• Moyer, Tom (2018) 'Edinburgh Review: A Midsummer Night’s Droll at theSpace on the Mile'Link opens in a new window in Exeunt.
• Škrobánková, Klára (2017) 'Enter the Clowns: Adapting Shakespeare After 1642'Link opens in a new window in Linguaculture 8:2, pp. 43-57.

Resources:

• Website for The Owle Schreame, a theatre company which, led by artistic director Brice Stratford, specialises in modern revivals of the drolls: https://owleschrea.me/Link opens in a new window.
• Details regarding A Midsummer Night's Droll (2018-19), a recent revival of Shakespearean droll Bottom the Weaver by the Owle Schreame: https://owleschrea.me/amidsummernightsdrollLink opens in a new window.
• Performance of another droll, John Swabber, by the Owle Schreame: https://youtu.be/NHqC6B27bhw.Link opens in a new window

On Kenrick:

• Sutherland, James R. (1993) 'Shakespeare's Imitators in the Eighteenth Century'Link opens in a new window in The Modern Language Review 28: 1, pp. 21-36.
• Kahan, Jeffrey [ed.] (2004) 'General Introduction' in Shakespeare Imitations, Parodies and Forgeries: 1710-1820, Volume 1, London and New York: Routledge, pp. xv-xlvi.

On Welles:

On Van Sant:

• Ferguson, Ailsa Grant (2011) '"An anagram of the body": Shakespeare and the Body/Text Commodified in My Own Private Idaho'Link opens in a new window in Borrowers and Lenders: The Journal of Shakespeare and Appropriation 6: 2, pp. 1-26.
• Patricia, Anthony Guy (2016), 'Introduction: The Presence of the Queer in the Shakespeare Film'Link opens in a new window in Queering the Shakespeare Film, London and New York: Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare, pp. xvii-xxvii.

On Nye:

On Lloyd:

Reading:

• Reason, Matthew (2019) ‘A prison audience: women prisoners, Shakespeare and spectatorship’Link opens in a new window in Cultural Trends 28:2-3, Taylor & Francis, pp. 86-102.
• Power, Terri (2015) Shakespeare and Gender in PracticeLink opens in a new window, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Note for studentsFor a detailed account of another play in Lloyd's trilogy, I recommend reading Chapter 4: 'Case Study - An All-Female Julius Caesar'.

Resources:

• Full list of resources available on Digital Theatre+: https://0-edu-digitaltheatreplus-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/content/productions/the-tempest-donmar-warehouse.
• The Prison Context: Prison Character Introductions: https://0-edu-digitaltheatreplus-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/content/interviews/the-prison-context-prison-character-introductions.

On Eyre:

On Branagh:

Other adaptations of Henry IV:

• Arrevillaga, Hugo, dir. (2012) Globe to Globe Festival: Henry IV Part 1, Shakespeare’s Globe. Mexican language stage adaptation.
• Avens, Sally, dir (2020) Drama on 3: Henry IV Part 1, London: BBC Radio 3. Radio adaptation featuring Toby Jones (Detectorists) as Falstaff and Iain Glen (Game of Thrones) as Henry. Available on the BBC.
• Doran, Gregory, dir. (2014), Henry IV Part 1, Royal Shakespeare Company. Traditional dress production starring Sir Antony Sher (Shakespeare in Love) as Falstaff and Alex Hassell (Cowboy Bebop) as Hal. Available on Digital Theatre+.
• Dromgoole, Dominic, dir. (2013), Henry IV Part 1, Shakespeare’s Globe. Open-air production featuring Roger Allam (The Thick of It) as Falstaff and Oliver Parker (The History Boys). Available on Drama Online.
• Sax, Matt, wr. and dir. (2008) Clay. Hip-hop musical adaptation.
• Stormzy, (2019) 'Crown' in Heavy is the Head, Atlantic Records UK. Hip-hop song by the celebrated grime artist, which paraphrases King Henry IV's oft-quoted reflection that 'Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown' from Henry IV Part 2. Live video available on YouTubeLink opens in a new window.
• Michôd, David, dir. (2019) The King. Epic war film adaptation which combines the three plays of the Henriad, featuring Timothée Chalamet (Dune) as Hal, Joel Edgerton (Obi-Wan Kenobi) as Falstaff and Robert Pattison (The Batman) as The Dauphin. Available on Netflix.
• Verdi, Giuseppe (1893) Falstaff, Milan. Opera adaptation.

General reading on Shakespeare and adaptation:

• Aebischer, P., Esche, E. J. & Wheale, N. [eds] (2003) Remaking Shakespeare: Performance Across Media, Genres and Cultures, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Bate, J. & Jackson, R. [eds] (2001) The Oxford Illustrated History of Shakespeare on Stage, Oxford University Press.

• Bennett, S. (1996) Performing Nostalgia: Shifting Shakespeare and the Contemporary Past, London: Routledge.

• Billington, M. [ed.] (2000) Directors’ Shakespeare, London: Nick Hern

• Bristol, M. D. (1990) Shakespeare’s America, America’s Shakespeare, London, Routledge.

• Bristol, M., McLuskie, K. & Holmes, C. [eds] (2001) Shakespeare and Modern Theatre: The Performance of Modernity, London: Routledge.

• Brown, J. R. (2002) Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Buhler, S. M. (2002) Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof, Albany, NY: State University of New York Press.

• Bulman, J. C. & Coursen, H. R. [eds] (1988) Shakespeare on Television: An Anthology of Essays and Reviews, University Press of New England.

• Bulman, J. C. (1996) Shakespeare, Theory and Performance, London: Routledge.

• Burnett, M. (2007) Filming Shakespeare in the Global Marketplace, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan

• Burnett, M. & Wray, R. [eds] (2000), Shakespeare, Film, Fin de Siècle, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Burt, R. (2002) Shakespeare After Mass Media, Basingstoke: palgrave Macmillan.

• Burt, R. & Boose, L. E. (2003) [eds] Shakespeare, the Movie, II: Popularizing the plays on film, TV, video, and DVD, London: Routledge.

• Davies, A. & Wells, S. [eds] (1994) Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television, Cambridge University Press.

• Desmet, C. & Sawyer, R. [eds] (1999) Shakespeare and Appropriation, London: Routledge.

• Dobson, M. (1992) The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation and Authorship, Oxford: Clarendon.

• Fischlin, D. & Fortier, M. [eds] (2000) Adaptations of Shakespeare, London: Routledge.

• Hatchuel, S. (2008) Shakespeare, from Stage to Screen, Cambridge University Press.

• Henderson, D. [ed.] (2005) A Concise Companion to Shakespeare on Screen, Oxford: Blackwell.
• Henderson, D. and O'Neill, S. [eds] (2022) The Arden Research Handbook of Shakespeare and Adaptation, London: Bloomsbury.

• Hindle, M. (2007) Studying Shakespeare on Film, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Hodgdon, B. & Worthen, W. B. [eds] (2005) A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance, Oxford: Blackwell.

• Holderness, G. (2001) Cultural Shakespeare: Essays in the Shakespeare Myth, Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press.

• Holderness, G. (2001) Visual Shakespeare: Essays in Film and Television, University of Hertfordshire Press.

• Holland, P (1997) English Shakespeares: Shakespeare on the English Stage in the 1990s, Cambridge University Press.

• Howard, T. (2007) Women as Hamlet: Performance and Interpretation in Theatre, Film and Fiction, Cambridge University Press.

• Jackson, R. (2007) Shakespeare Films in the Making: Vision, Production and Reception, Cambridge University Press.

• Jackson, R. [ed.] (2007) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, 2nd ed, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Kidnie, M. J. (2005) “Where is Hamlet? Text, Performance, and Adaptation” in Hodgdon, B. & Worthen, W. B. [eds] A Companion to Shakespeare and Performance, Chichester: Blackwell, 101-20.

• Kidnie, M. J. (2009) Shakespeare and the Problem of Adaptation, London: Routledge.

• Lanier, D. (2002) Shakespeare and Modern Popular Culture, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Lehmann, C. (2002) Shakespeare Remains: Theatre to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern, Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP.

• Marsden, J. I. (1995) The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky.

• Martin, R. & Scheil, K. W. (2011) Shakespeare/Adaptation/Modern Drama: Essays in Honour of Jill L. Levenson, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

• Massai, S. [ed.] (2005) World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance, London: Routledge.

• Orkin, M. & Loomba, A. (1998) Post-Colonial Shakespeares, London: Routledge.

• Prescott, P., Edmondson, P. & Sullivan, E. [eds] (2013) A Year of Shakespeare: Reliving the World Shakespeare Festival, London: Bloomsbury.

• Prescott, P. & Sullivan, E. [eds] (2015) Shakespeare on the Global Stage: Performance and Festivity in the Olympic Year, London: Bloomsbury.

• Purcell, S. (2009) Popular Shakespeare: Simulation and Subversion on the Modern Stage, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Rothwell, K. S. (2004) A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television, Cambridge University Press.

• Rutter, C. C. (1988) Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare’s Women Today, London: The Women's Press.

• Rutter, C. C. (2007) Shakespeare and Child’s Play: Performing Lost Boys on Stage and Screen, London: Routledge.

• Schafer, E. (1998) MsDirecting Shakespeare: Women Direct Shakespeare, London: The Women’s Press.

• Shaughnessy, R. (1994) Representing Shakespeare: England, History and the RSC, London: Harvester Wheatsheaf.

• Shaughnessy, R. [ed.] (1998) Shakespeare on Film: Contemporary Critical Essays, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Shaughnessy, R. (2002) The Shakespeare Effect: A History of Twentieth Century Performance, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

• Shaughnessy, R. [ed.] (2007) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

• Taylor, G. (1989) Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present, London: Hogarth.

• Terris, O., Oesterlen, E. & McKernan, L. [eds] Shakespeare on Film, Television and Radio: The Researcher’s Guide, British Universities Film & Video Council.

• Wells, S. & Stanton, S. [eds] (2002) The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage, Cambridge University Press.

• Wells, S. [ed.] (1997) Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism, Oxford University Press.

• Worthen W. B. (2003) Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.