Research Guides: ENGL 320: Political Shakespeare (HC) Fall 2012: Finding Books

Finding Books

Use TRIPOD to find books and other material owned by the Tri-College libraries.

Use WorldCat to find books not held by the Tri-College libraries.

In order to find books in either catalog, conduct either a relevant:

Keyword Search:

E.g., ("henry V" OR "henry the fifth") AND (politic* OR govern*)

(See the Search Tips tab for more information on how to construct keyword searches.)

Or Subject Search:

E.g., Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Political and social views

Politics and literature Great Britain History 16th century

Politics and literature Great Britain History 17th century

(Use the Browse Books & More link to find additional subject headings.)

Tripod: Books & More
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The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges. Use Tripod Books and More to find relevant books, journals, dissertations, films, and other material owned by the tri-college libraries. Click on the "request" button at the bottom of an item's record to have it delivered to Magill or another library.

WorldCat
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A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Borrowing Beyond the Tri-Co
Request items that are not available in Tripod through E-ZBorrow or Interlibrary Loan. Note that E-Z Borrow is the first place to look for books not in Tripod. It usually takes just three days for E-Z Borrow books to arrive. Books not in E-Z Borrow can come from Interlibrary Loan (ILL) which may take as little as four or five days to arrive.

For journal articles not available in the three colleges, use the Article Delivery form. In around 3 days you will receive a digital copy of the requested articles in your email.

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Selected Books on Shakespeare and Politics

Shakespeare's Politics by Wells
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ISBN: 9780826493057
Publication Date: 2009-03-06
Shakespeare's Politics is an invaluable introduction to the political world of Shakespeare's plays. It includes passages from the plays together with extracts from contemporary historical and political documents. Introduces and explains the extracts and provides an overview of the key political issues that were debated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England.The introduction outlines the historical context in which Shakespeare wrote and explains the intellectual principles that informed early modern thinking about politics.

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Shakespeare and Early Modern Political Thought by David Armitage, et al. (eds.)
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ISBN: 9780521768085
Publication Date: 2009-09-10
A collection of essays that place Shakespeare's works within the landscape of early modern political thought.

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Shakespeare and Renaissance Politics by Andrew Hadfield (Editor)
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ISBN: 1903436176
Publication Date: 2003-09-04
Shakespeare, like many of his contemporaries, was concerned with the question of the succession and the legitimacy of the monarch. From the early plays through the histories to Hamlet, Shakespeare's work is haunted by the problem of political legitimacy. Shakespeare and Reniassance Politics examines his works as political events and interventions, and explores the literature of the Renaissance and its relation to fundamental political issues.
Shakespeare's Freedom by Stephen Greenblatt
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ISBN: 9780226306667
Publication Date: 2010-11-15
Shakespeare lived in a world of absolutes—of claims for the absolute authority of scripture, monarch, and God, and the authority of fathers over wives and children, the old over the young, and the gentle over the baseborn. With the elegance and verve for which he is well known, Greenblatt shows that Shakespeare was strikingly averse to such absolutes and constantly probed the possibility of freedom from them. [adapted]

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