Shakespeare, Hamlet (1987)

William Shakespeare.
Hamlet.
Edited by G. R. Hibbard.
The Oxford Shakespeare.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 1987.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other noteworthy editions of Hamlet :

• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Second Edition. Edited by Ann Thompson and Neil Taylor. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Third Edition. Edited by Philip Edwards. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Hamlet, Second Edition. Edited by Robert S. Miola. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• G. R. (George Richard) Hibbard (born 1915) was Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
• Hibbard Prize for Shakespeare Studies, English undergraduate awards, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Waterloo.
• Mirror up to Shakespeare: Essays in Honour of G.R. Hibbard. Edited by J.C. Gray. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  The preface to this book, viewable on Google Books, tells a little bit about Professor Hibbard.
• G. R. Hibbard, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Hibbard, G. R. (George Richard), 1915-, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• G. R. Hibbard. Thomas Nashe: A Critical Introduction. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1962.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• G. R. Hibbard. The Making of Shakespeare's Dramatic Poetry. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1981.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Love's Labour's Lost. Edited by G. R. Hibbard. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post for Love's Labour's Lost is here.
• Prof. Hibbard also edited these other plays for the Penguin Shakespeare: Coriolanus; Timon of Athens; The Merry Wives of Windsor; The Taming of the Shrew.
  Hibbard also edited an edition of Ben Johnson's Bartholomew Fair.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean tragedy.
• Hamlet, written between 1599 and 1601; printed in 1603 (a Bad Quarto), 1604/5 Second Quarto, 1623 First Folio.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Hamlet (1599-1601).
• Phrases from Hamlet in common English.
• Shakespeare's influence.

English Renaissance Literature, Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.
• Revenge play.
• Revenge tragedy.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Carol Rutter, Sonia Massai, "Hamlet," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 28 Dec 2017.
  • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Julie Sanders, Janet Clare, "Elizabethan Revenge," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 June 2009.
  • Elizabethan literature.
  • Revenge play.
  • Revenge tragedy.
  • Thomas Kyd (1558–1594), The Spanish Tragedy, written between 1582 and 1592.
  • Seneca the Younger (c.4 BC – AD 65), Thyestes.
  • John Marston (1576–1634), Antonio's Revenge, 1600 or 1601.
  • William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Hamlet, written between 1599 and 1601.
  • Thomas Middleton (1580–1627), The Revenger's Tragedy, first performed 1606.

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Bronte, C., Jane Eyre (2021)

Charlotte Brontë.
Jane Eyre.
Edited by Karen Swallow Prior ("A Guide to Reading and Reflecting").
Nashville, Tennessee: B&H Publishing, 2021.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History

• Charlotte Brontë (1816–1855).
• Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (1847).
• Charlotte Brontë, Shirley (1849).
• Charlotte Brontë, Villette (1853).
• Charlotte Brontë, The Professor (written before Jane Eyre, first published 1857).
• Brontë family.
  • Emily Brontë (1818–1848), author of Wuthering Heights (1847).
  • Anne Brontë (1820–1849), author of Agnes Grey (1847) and The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848).
• Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865), The Life of Charlotte Brontë (1857).
• Elizabeth Gaskell. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Edited by Angus Easson. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Elizabeth Gaskell. The Life of Charlotte Brontë. Edited by Elisabeth Jay. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1997.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charlotte Brontë. Selected Letters. Edited by Margaret Smith. Introduction by Janet Gezari. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
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• English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
• Romantic literature in English.
• Gothic fiction.
• English literature: Victorian literature (1837–1901).
• English literature: The Victorian novel.
• English novel: Victorian novel.
• Novel: 19th-century novels.
• Bildungsroman.
• Romance (prose fiction).
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• History of the United Kingdom: 1800 to 1837.
• Georgian era, 1714 to c.1830–1837.
• Regency era, c.1795 to 1837.
• History of the United Kingdom: Victorian era.
• Victorian era, 1837 to 1901.
• 1847 in the United Kingdom: Publications.

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Editor:

• Karen Swallow Prior, her website.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Substack.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Twitter.
• Karen Swallow Prior, B&H Publishing.
• Karen Swallow Prior, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Prior, Karen Swallow, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• Karen Swallow Prior. Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. Ossining, New York: T. S. Poetry Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karen Swallow Prior. Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More: Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist. Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 2014.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karen Swallow Prior. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group), 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karen Swallow Prior. The Evangelical Imagination: How Stories, Images, and Metaphors Created a Culture in Crisis. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group), 2023.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Dinah Birch, Karen O'Brien, Sara Lyons, "Jane Eyre," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 18 June 2015.
  • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.
• Melvyn Bragg, Chris Baldick, A. N. Wilson, Emma Clery, "Gothic," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 04 January 2001.
  • Gothic fiction, Wikipedia.
  • Gothic Revival architecture, Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • Chris Baldick (b. 1954), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Chris Baldick, Department of English and Creative Writing, Goldsmiths College, University of London.
  • Chris Baldick. In Frankenstein’s Shadow: Myth, Monstrosity, and Nineteenth-Century Writing. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Chris Baldick, editor. The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  ~~~~~
  • A. N. Wilson (b. 1950), Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • Emma Clery, Department of English, Uppsala University.
  • Emma Clery, Twitter / X.
  • Emma Juliet Clery. The Writing of the Supernatural in Eighteenth-century Britain. University of Sussex, 1992.
    [Google Books.]
  • Emma Clery. The Rise of Supernatural Fiction, 1762-1800. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. J. Clery. Women's Gothic: From Clara Reeve to Mary Shelley. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2004.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. J. Clery. Jane Austen: The Banker's Sister. Biteback Publishing, 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • E. J. Clery. Eighteen Hundred and Eleven: Poetry, Protest and Economic Crisis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
    Clery's book focuses on the political poem by Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825) titled Eighteen Hundred and Eleven (1811).
    By the way, Sense and Sensibility was published in 1811.

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Other Video :

You can find some (some, not much) insightful commentary on Jane Eyre (and other literary classics) on YouTube. For example:

• Octavia Cox, "Mr Rochester, Bertha Mason, Mrs Rochester, & NAMES | Charlotte Brontë JANE EYRE novel analysis", 2021.
• Octavia Cox, "Mr Rochester’s Charade—Marriage, Blanche Ingram, Bertha Mason, & Jane Eyre—Charlotte Brontë ANALYSIS", 2021.
• Benjamin McEvoy, "How to Read Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë", 2023.

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Some other editions of Jane Eyre :

• Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre, Fourth Edition. Edited by Deborah Lutz. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Edited by Stevie Davis. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Edited by Stevie Davis. Penguin Clothbound Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2009.
  [Publisher; Amazon.com.]
• Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre. Edited by Margaret Smith. Introduction by Juliette Atkinson. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Comments on the Karen Swallow Prior edition of Jane Eyre :

Professor Prior's Introduction and "Reflection Questions" are helpful. However, they are oriented towards reinforcing the faith of evangelical Christians and, if that is not your motivation for reading, that can be a little off-putting. On the other hand, she footnotes Biblical references which may be absent in other editions. I recommend readers get the Norton Critical Editions version instead.

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Austen, Sense and Sensibility (2020)

Jane Austen.
Sense and Sensibility.
Edited by Karen Swallow Prior ("A Guide to Reading and Reflecting").
Nashville, Tennessee: B&H Publishing, 2020.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History

• Jane Austen (1775–1817).
• Timeline of Jane Austen.
• Styles and themes of Jane Austen.
• Georgian society in Jane Austen's novels.
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• Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility (1811).
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• English literature: Age of Sensibility (1745–1798).
• Sentimental novel.
• Sentimentalism (literature).
• Sensibility.
• Novel of manners.
• English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
• English novel: Romantic period.
• English literature: Romantic novel.
• Romantic literature in English: Romantic novel.
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• Early modern Britain: 18th century.
• History of the United Kingdom: 1800 to 1837.
• Georgian era, 1714 to c.1830–1837.
• Regency era, c.1795 to 1837.
• 1811 in the United Kingdom: Publications.

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Editor:

• Karen Swallow Prior, her website.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Substack.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Twitter.
• Karen Swallow Prior, B&H Publishing.
• Karen Swallow Prior, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Prior, Karen Swallow, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• Karen Swallow Prior. Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. Ossining, New York: T. S. Poetry Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karen Swallow Prior. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group), 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Claire Tomalin, John Mullan, Hermione Lee, "Sensibility," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 3 January 2002.
  • English literature: Age of Sensibility (1745–1798).
  • Sentimental novel, Wikipedia.
  • Sensibility, Wikipedia.
  • Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740), Wikipedia.
  • Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768), Wikipedia.
  • Henry Mackenzie (1745–1831), The Man of Feeling (1771), Wikipedia.
  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832), The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774), Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • Claire Tomalin (b. 1933), Wikipedia.
  • Claire Tomalin. Jane Austen: A Life. London: Viking (Penguin Books), 1997. New York: Vintage Books (Random House), 1999.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • John Mullan, Wikipedia.
  • Professor John Mullan, Department of English, University College, London.
  • Hermione Lee (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
  • Dame Hermione Lee, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.
  • Professor Dame Hermione Lee, her website.
• Melvyn Bragg, Amanda Vickery, David Wootton, John Mullan, "Politeness," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 30 September 2004.
  • Politeness: History, Wikipedia.
  • Anthony Ashley-Cooper, 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury (1671–1713), Characteristicks of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times (1711), Wikipedia.
  • Joseph Addison (1672–1719) and Richard Steele (1671–1729), The Spectator (1711–1712; 1714), Wikipedia.
  • Novel of manners, Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • Amanda Vickery (b. 1962), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Amanda Vickery, School of History, Queen Mary University of London.
  • David Wootton (historian) (b. 1952), Wikipedia.
  • David Wootton, Department of History, University of York.
  • David Wootton, his website.
  • John Mullan, Wikipedia.
  • Professor John Mullan, Department of English, University College, London.
• Melvyn Bragg, D. J. Taylor, Gillian Beer, "The Novel," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 11 November 1999.
  • English novel.
  ~~~~~
  • D. J. Taylor (writer) (b. 1960), Wikipedia.
  • D. J. Taylor, Writer, his website.
  • Gillian Beer (b. 1935), Wikipedia.
  • Gillian Beer, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge.
  • Prof Gillian Beer, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.

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Some other editions of Sense and Sensibility :

• Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility, Third Edition. Edited by Claudia L. Johnson. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility. Edited by Ros Ballaster. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility: An Annotated Edition. Edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks. Cambridge, Massachussets: Harvard University Press, 2013.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility, Third Edition. Edited by John Mullan. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Comments on the Karen Swallow Prior edition of Sense and Sensibility :

I think readers will be more satisfied with the Annotated Edition edited by Patricia Meyer Spacks noted above.

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Shelley, Frankenstein (2021)

Mary Shelley.
Frankenstein.
Edited by Karen Swallow Prior ("A Guide to Reading and Reflecting").
Nashville, Tennessee: B&H Publishing, 2021.
(This edition reprints the text of the 1818 edition of Frankenstein.)

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles: Author, Book, English Literature, British History

• Mary Shelley (1796–1851).
• Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), Mary Shelley's mother.
• William Godwin (1756–1836), Mary Shelley's father.
• Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), Mary Shelley's husband.
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• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, 1818.
• Prometheus.
• Gothic fiction.
• History of science fiction: Shelley and Europe in the early 19th century.
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• English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
• Romantic literature in English.
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• Early modern Britain: 18th century.
• History of the United Kingdom: 1800 to 1837.
• Georgian era, 1714 to c. 1830–1837.
• Regency era, c. 1795 – 1837.

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Editor:

• Karen Swallow Prior, her website.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Substack.
• Karen Swallow Prior, Twitter.
• Karen Swallow Prior, B&H Publishing.
• Karen Swallow Prior, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Prior, Karen Swallow, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• Karen Swallow Prior. Booked: Literature in the Soul of Me. Ossining, New York: T. S. Poetry Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Karen Swallow Prior. On Reading Well: Finding the Good Life through Great Books. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Brazos Press (Baker Publishing Group), 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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In Our Time:

• Melvyn Bragg, Karen O'Brien, Michael Rossington, Jane Thomas, "Frankenstein," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 19 March 2020.
  • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.
• Melvyn Bragg, Patricia Fara, Andrew Mendelsohn, Pietro Corsi, "Vitalism," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 16 October 2008.
  • This episode of In Our Time describes the (scientific) intellectual context of Frankenstein.
  • Vitalism, Wikipedia.
  • Patricia Fara (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
  • Patricia Fara, History and Philosophy of Science, Emeritus Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge.
  • Dr Andrew Mendelsohn, School of History, Queen Mary, University of London.
  • Pietro Corsi (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Pietro Corsi, Emeritus Professor of the History of Science, Faculty of History, University of Oxford.
• Melvyn Bragg, Simon Schaffer, Patricia Fara, Iwan Morus, "Electrickery," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 4 November 2004.
  • This episode of In Our Time describes the (scientific) intellectual context of Frankenstein.
  • Electricity: History, Wikipedia.
  • Simon Schaffer (b. 1955), Wikipedia.
  • Simon Schaffer, Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge.
  • Patricia Fara (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
  • Patricia Fara, History and Philosophy of Science, Emeritus Fellow, Clare College, University of Cambridge.
  • Morus, Iwan Rhys 1964-, encyclopedia.com.
  • Prof Iwan Morus, Department of History & Welsh History, Aberystwyth University, Wales.
  • Iwan Rhys Morus. Frankenstein's Children: Electricity, Exhibition, and Experiment in Early-Nineteenth-Century London.. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1998, 2014.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Robert Woof, Jennifer Wallace, "The Later Romantics," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 15 April 2004.
  • This episode of In Our Time describes the (literary) intellectual context of Frankenstein.
  ~~~~~
  • English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
  • Romantic literature in English.
  ~~~~~
  • William Blake (1757–1827), Wikipedia.
  • William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Wikipedia.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • Lord Byron (1788–1824), Wikipedia.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), Wikipedia.
  • John Keats (1795–1821), Wikipedia.
  • John Clare (1793–1864), Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • William Hazlitt (1778–1830), Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • Jonathan Bate (b.1958), Wikipedia.
  • Jonathan Bate, his website.
  • Professor Sir Jonathan Bate, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.
  • Sir Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University.
  • Robert Woof (1931–2005), Wikipedia.
  • Robert Woof CBE, Royal Society of Literature.
  • Robert Woof, Obituary, The Guardian, 11 November 2005.
  • Dr. Jennifer Wallace, Faculty of English, University of Cambridge.
• Melvyn Bragg, Clive Oppenheimer, Jane Stabler, Lawrence Goldman, "1816, the Year Without a Summer," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 21 April 2016.
  • See episode notes for a Reading List / References.
  • This episode of In Our Time includes some discussion of Shelley's Frankenstein since she started writing it during the bad weather in Geneva during the Summer of 1816.
• Melvyn Bragg, John Mullan, Karen O'Brien, Barbara Taylor, "Mary Wollstonecraft," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 31 December 2009.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), Wikipedia.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Men, 1790, Wikipedia.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, Wikipedia.
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Men, in a Letter to the Right Honourable Edmund Burke; occasioned by his Reflections on the Revolution in France, Second Edition. London: J. Johnson, 1790.
    [Archive.org.]
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: with Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects.
    [Archive.org, Boston 1792; Archive.org, Philadelphia 1794; Archive.org, London 1796.]
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Men -and- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Janet Todd. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993, 2009.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Mary Wollstonecraft. A Vindication of the Rights of Men -and- A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Edited by Sylvana Tomaselli. Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  ~~~~~
  • William Godwin (1756–1836), Wikipedia.
  • William Godwin, Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793), Wikipedia.
  • William Godwin, Things as They Are; or, The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794, 1831), Wikipedia.
  • William Godwin, Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1798), Wikipedia.
  • William Godwin. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. London: J. Johnson, 1798.
    [Google Books.]
  • William Godwin. Memoirs of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Second Edition, Corrected. London: J. Johnson, 1798.
    [Archive.org.]
  • William Godwin. Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Women'. Edited by Richard Holmes. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 1987.
    (This edition also includes: Mary Wollstonecraft, A Short Residence in Sweden, Norway and Denmark.)
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  ~~~~~
  • John Mullan, Wikipedia.
  • Professor John Mullan, Department of English, University College, London.
  • Karen O'Brien, Wikipedia.
  • Professor Karen O'Brien, Vice-Chancellor and Warden, Durham University.
  • Barbara Taylor (b. 1950), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Barbara Taylor, School of History, Queen Mary University of London.
• Melvyn Bragg, Jonathan Bate, Rosemary Ashton, Nicholas Roe, "The Romantics," In Our Time, BBC Radio 4, 12 October 2000.
  • English literature: Romanticism (1798 –1837).
  • Romantic literature in English.
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  • John Locke (1632–1704), Wikipedia.
  • David Hartley (1705–1757), Wikipedia.
  • David Hume (1711–1776), Wikipedia.
  • Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712–1778), Wikipedia.
  • Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Wikipedia.
  • Friedrich Schiller (1759–1805), Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • William Blake (1757–1827), Wikipedia.
  • Robert Burns (1759–1796), Wikipedia.
  • William Wordsworth (1770–1850), Wikipedia.
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834), Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • Lord Byron (1788–1824), Wikipedia.
  • Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), Wikipedia.
  • John Keats (1795–1821), Wikipedia.
  • John Clare (1793–1864), Wikipedia.
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  • Walter Scott (1771–1832), Wikipedia.
  • William Hazlitt (1778–1830), Wikipedia.
  • Leigh Hunt (1784–1859), Wikipedia.
  • Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859), Wikipedia.
  • Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881), Wikipedia.
  ~~~~~
  • Jonathan Bate (b.1958), Wikipedia.
  • Jonathan Bate, his website.
  • Professor Sir Jonathan Bate, Faculty of English, University of Oxford.
  • Sir Jonathan Bate, Arizona State University.
  • Rosemary Ashton (b. 1947), Wikipedia.
  • Professor Rosemary Ashton, Department of English Language and Literature, University College London.
  • Nicholas Roe (b. 1955), Wikipedia.
  • Prof Nicholas Roe, School of English, University of St Andrews.

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Some other editions of Frankenstein :

• Mary Shelley. Frankenstein: or 'The Modern Prometheus': The 1818 Text, Third Edition. Edited by Nick Groom. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mary Shelley. Frankenstein: The 1818 Text. Edited by Charlotte Gordon and Charles E. Robinson. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin Random House, 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mary Shelley. Frankenstein, Third Edition. Edited by J. Paul Hunter. Norton Critical Editions. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mary Shelley. The New Annotated Frankenstein. Edited by Leslie S. Klinger. New York: Liveright (W. W. Norton & Company), 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley. The Annotated Frankenstein. Edited by Susan J. Wolfson and Ronald Levao. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Comments on the Karen Swallow Prior edition of Frankenstein :

Despite the pleasing physical appearance of Prior's edition (a hardcover book with sewn binding), I think readers will be more satisfied with the more professionally edited and more fully annotated (and illustrated in two cases) editions published by Harvard and Norton (see notes above): either (a) The New Annotated Frankenstein edited by Klinger, or (b) The Annotated Frankenstein edited by Wolfson and Levao, or (c) the Norton Critical Edition edited by Hunter. I would also rather use the Oxford and Penguin editions than the Prior edition.

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Shakespeare, As You Like It (1993)

William Shakespeare.
As You Like It.
Edited by Alan Brissenden.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 1993.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other noteworthy editions of As You Like It :

• William Shakespeare. As You Like It. Edited by Juliet Dusinberre. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2006.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. As You Like It, Third Edition. Edited by Michael Hattaway. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• Alan Theo Brissenden (1932-2020).
• Alan Theo Brissenden, The University of Adelaide.
• BRISSENDEN, Dr Alan - Interview, 8 February 2013, The University of Adelaide.
• Alan and Elizabeth Brissenden Prize in Early Modern Drama, The University of Adelaide.
• Alan Brissenden. Shakespeare and the Dance. Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press, 1981.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Alan Brissenden, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Brissenden, Alan, The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• As You Like It, written in 1599-1600; first printed in 1623.
• "All the world's a stage", As You Like It, act 2, scene 7, line 139.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: As You Like It (1599-1600).

English Renaissance Literature, Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing (1993)

William Shakespeare.
Much Ado About Nothing.
Edited by Sheldon P. Zitner.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition was first published in 1993.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other noteworthy editions of Much Ado About Nothing:

• William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing, Second Edition. Edited by Claire McEachern. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. Much Ado About Nothing, Third Edition. Edited by F. H. Mares. Introduction by Travis D. Williams. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• Sheldon P. Zitner, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Zitner, Sheldon P., The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• Much Ado About Nothing, written in 1598-1599; first printed in 1600.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays: Much Ado About Nothing (1598-1599).

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English literature: Jacobean period (1603–1625).
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Tudor period, 1485–1603.
• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabethan Religious Settlement.
• English society: Tudor society.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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Carlyle, "Signs of the Times" (2009)

Thomas Carlyle.
"Signs of the Times".
Edited by George P. Landow.
The Victorian Web, 2009.
This essay was first published in The Edinburgh Review, volume 49, number 98, article 7, pages 439-459, June 1829.

Essay Links:

• The Victorian Web, 2009.
• Archive.org, The Edinburgh Review, volume 49, number 98, article 7, pages 439-459, June 1829.
• Archive.org, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Boston, 1838, volume 2, pages 143-171.
• Archive.org, Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Library Edition, In Thirty Volumes, volume 7; Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, In Six Volumes, volume 2, London, 1869; 1889, pages 313-342.
• Archive.org, The Works of Thomas Carlyle, Centenary Edition, Edited by Henry Duff Traill, London, 1899, volume 27, pages 56-82.

The Victorian Web edition of "Signs of the Times" contains many links to annotations that explain various terms used by Carlyle. These supplementary notes, not without defects, are usually more thorough than the footnotes or endnotes in any print edition; I found them very helpful.

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Editor:

• George Landow (professor) (1940—2023), Wikipedia.
• George P. Landow, The Victorian Web.
• George P Landow, Professor Emeritus of English and History of Art, Brown University.
• The Victorian Web, a website created and edited by George P. Landow.
• George P. Landow. Elegant Jeremiahs: The Sage from Carlyle to Mailer. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1986. Abington, UK: Routledge, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Online Edition at "The Victorian Web" website.]
• George P. Landow. Victorian Types, Victorian Shadows: Biblical Typology in Victorian Literature, Art and Thought. Boston and London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980. Abington, UK: Routledge, 2015.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Online Edition at "The Victorian Web" website.]
• George Landow, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Landow, George P., The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).

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Wikipedia and Other Articles:

• Thomas Carlyle, The Victorian Web.
• Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881).
• Thomas Carlyle, Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, 1838–1839.
• Condition-of-England question.
• Thomas Carlyle's prose style.
• Victorian era, 1837–1901.
• English literature: Romanticism (1798–1837).
• English literature: Victorian literature (1837–1901).
• Victorian literature.
• Sage writing.

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"Signs of the Times" is included in many anthologies of Carlyle's writings. For example:

• Thomas Carlyle. Selected Writings. Penguin Classics. London: Penguin Books, 2015.
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Sōseki, I Am a Cat (2001)

Sōseki Natsume.
I Am a Cat.
Translated by Aiko Ito and Graeme Wilson.
Tokyo; Rutland, Vermont; and Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2001.
(This translation was first published in three volumes in 1972, 1979 and 1986.)

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

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Wikipedia Articles:

• Natsume Sōseki (1867–1916).
• Sōseki, I Am a Cat, 1905-1906.
• Sōseki, Kokoro, 1914.
• Japanese literature.
• Japanese literature: Meiji, Taishō, and early Shōwa-period literature (1868–1945).
• Graeme Wilson (translator) (1919–1992).

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A recently published manga version of I Am a Cat :

• Soseki Natsume's I Am A Cat: The Manga Edition.
  Retold and Illustrated by Chiroru Kobato.
  Translated by Zack Davisson.
  Tokyo; Rutland, Vermont; and Singapore: Tuttle Publishing, 2021.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (1990)

William Shakespeare.
The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Edited by T. W. Craik.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
This edition first published in 1990.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.

Book Series: The Oxford Shakespeare; Oxford World's Classics.

Some other noteworthy editions of The Merry Wives of Windsor:

• William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor. Edited by Giorgio Melchiori. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2000.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• William Shakespeare. The Merry Wives of Windsor, Second Edition. Edited by David Crane. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Editor:

• Thomas Wallace Craik, OCLC WorldCat Entities.
• Craik, T. W. (Thomas Wallace), The Library of Congress, LC Name Authority File (LCNAF).
• Dick Watson, "Tom Craik obituary", The Guardian, 03 December 2017.
• T. W. Craik. The Tudor Interlude: Stage, Costume, and Acting. Leicester: Leicester University Press, 1958.
  [Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Craik, Thomas Wallace, encyclopedia.com.

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Wikipedia Articles:

Shakespeare:

• William Shakespeare (1564–1616).
• Shakespearean comedy.
• The Merry Wives of Windsor, written around 1597; first performance probably in April 1597; first printed in 1602; first documented performance in 1604.
• John Falstaff, a character created by Shakespeare.
• Chronology of Shakespeare's plays.

English Renaissance Drama:

• English Renaissance, 16th - 17th Centuries.
• English literature: English Renaissance (1500–1660).
• Elizabethan literature.
• English Renaissance theatre.

England during Shakespeare's Time:

• Elizabethan era, 1558–1603.
• Elizabethan government.
• Elizabeth I (1533–1603); Queen of England and Ireland 1558–1603.
• Elizabeth I: Later years.
• Jacobean era, 1603–1625.
• James VI and I (1566–1625); King of Scotland as James VI 1567–1625; King of England and Ireland as James I 1603–1625.
• Stuart period, 1603–1714.
• Early modern Britain, 16th – 18th Centuries.

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