E. Beatrice Batson Shakespeare Collection
| Special Collections, Buswell Library


Hymns, English - History and criticism.
Jesus Christ - Art.
Jesus Christ - Biography - Sources, Biblical.
Jesus Christ - Crucifixion - Art.
Jesus Christ - Person and offices.
Pastoral theology.
Postmodernism - Religious aspects - Christianity.
Prayer - History.
Prayer books and devotions.
Religion in literature.

The E.Beatrice Batson Shakespeare Collection is unique among Shakespeare collections in its focus on the Christian tradition in Shakespeare's works. The Shakespeare Collection attempts to bring together the very best scholarship available on the Christian dimension of Shakespeare's dramas, sonnets, and poems.
The collection has among its holdings a beautiful leather-bound Fourth Folio of Henry IV, Part I and II (London, 1685), two facsimiles 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. Scores of professionally produced videos, including videos of the dramas and on the teaching and performing of the plays, are also in the collection.
The majority of the collection resides on the lower level of Buswell Library, and while materials can't be checked out, can be readily referenced. The Shakespeare Collection may be searched in the library catalog as keyword: SC/34

Documents 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