E. Beatrice Batson Shakespeare Collection
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Title: E. Beatrice Batson Shakespeare Collection
ID: SC/034
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Abstract
The Shakespeare Special Collection attempts to bring together the very best scholarship available on the Christian dimension of Shakespeare’s dramas, sonnets, and poems. Acquiring the best critical works (essays, books, articles, and other materials, both old and contemporary) is a priority. The Collection is intended to serve as a vital center for scholarly activities of professors, students, and Shakespeare enthusiasts, particularly in the area of Christian higher education. It is a place where scholars can do research for articles and books, where professors may become more aware of possibilities for teaching from a Christian perspective, and where any reader may better understand the Christian dimension of Shakespeare’s works.
Administrative InformationCollection Material Type: Collection
Other Note: The Focus of the Shakespeare Special Collection at Wheaton College is unique among Shakespeare collections in its focus on the Christian tradition in Shakespeare's works. Since the eighteenth century, numerous scholars have done outstanding thinking and writing on ways in which the Christian tradition intersects the language of Shakespeare's writings. Some have examined biblical influences on his works; others have studied large theological and doctrinal concepts embodied in his writings, and others have focused on the Christian implications of his works as well as on specific moral, spiritual, ethical, and aesthetic topics. At present, however, no library has brought together these various works in one collection and in one place. The Shakespeare Special Collection at Wheaton College is undertaking this ongoing and significant project.
Scope and Contents: The collection has among its holdings a beautiful leather-bound Fourth Folio of Henry IV, Part I and II (London, 1685), a facsimile copy of the First Folio (1623), various editions of the dramas, a facsimile copy of the 1602 Geneva version of the Bible (perhaps the major source of Shakespeare’s frequent biblical allusions), and a few promptbooks. Resources also include background materials on Shakespeare’s era, bibliographic guides, and concordances. Among the critical materials are over 1000 books and more than 2000 articles and essays. Scores of professionally produced videos, including videos of the dramas and on the teaching and performing of the plays, are also in the collection.
On-line Images/RecordsDocuments and Files:
"I Could Not say Amen": Prayer and Providence in Macbeth - Robert Miola
Abbreviated Rites and Incomplete Ceremonies: Dramatic Necessity or Official Prohibition? - David George
Cobbling Souls in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar - Maurice Hunt
Comedy, Faith, and Suffering in Shakespearean Tragedy - John Cox
Contemporary Poems in Response to Shakespeare: Reading from a New Anthology - Paul Willis
Cultural Catholicities: New Contexts for Shakespeare - Robert Miola
Editing and Writing for a Shakespearean Journal - John Mahon
Focalizing Reconciliation: Filmic endings in Hamlet - Daniel Colvin
From Sin to Reconciliation: The Dnamics of the Passion of Anger in King Lear - David Beauregard
Maimed Rites and Whirling Words in Hamlet - Jesse Lander
Malvolio in Hell - Joseph Candido
Meta-drama in Hamlet and Macbeth - Peter Milward
Perspectives on Teaching Hamlet - Grace Tiffany
Prospero's Apocalypse - Chris Hodgkins
Providence in Julius Caesar - John Mahon
Recognizing Reconciliation in As You Like It - Ellen Summers
Reconciliation and Theatricality in The Winter's Tale - John Rumrich
Reconciliation in Love's Labour's Lost - R. Chris Hassel
Reconciliation in Measure for Measure - R. Chris Hassel
Reformation/Counter Reformation Macbeth - Maurice Hunt
Shakespeare and the Bible - Leland Ryken
Shakespeare and the New Testament: The Announcement - David Daniell
Shakespeare and the New Testament: The Book - David Daniell
Shakespeare and the Problems of Self-love in Medieval and Renaissance Theology: Julius Caesar, Hamlet, and Macbeth - Robert (Robin) Reid
Shakespeare's "Pillicock": Sign of Reconciliation and of Punishment - Grace Tiffany
Shakespeare, Anti-Gallicism, and the Geneva Bible - Grace Tiffany
Short Paper Sessions - with David George, Grace Tiffany, and Christ Hodgkins
The Earthly City Redeemed: The Reconciliation of Cain and Abel in As You Like It - Marsha Robinson
The Key to Reconciliation in Hamlet - Maurice Hunt
The Reconciliation of Shakespeare and Robert Greene - John Rumrich
The State of the Soul and the Soul of The State: The Theme of Reconciliation in the Two Parts of Henry IV - Charles Forker
Topics Awaiting Further Study by Christian Shakespearean Scholars - Peter Milward
Why is Twelfth Night called Twelfth Night? - Joseph Candido
"If Ever I Marry... And I will be Married Tomorrow": As You Like It, Lutheran Grace and the Shakespearean Promise - Wililam J. Rogers
Hamlet and Protestant Aural Theater - Grace Tiffany
Hamlet, Reconciliation, and the Just State - Grace Tiffany
Macbeth as a new kind of morality play - Robin Reid
Macbeth's Ghosts and Calvin's Stage - Kristen Poole
