Use the search box below to find books in the library collections - this search will bring up both print and digital books as well as DVDs. You can search for materials based on title, author, and keywords.
"This monograph explores the importance of weather and changing skies in early modern England while acknowledging the fact that traditional representations and religious beliefs still fashioned people's relations to meteorological phenomena."
Fall 2024 Plays Covered: A Midsummer Night's Dream
"By examining how female characters speak and act during coming of age, engagement, marriage, and intimacy, Consent in Shakespeare will enhance understanding about how and why women spoke, remained silent, or acted as they did in relation to their intimate partners in Early Modern and contemporary private and public situations in and around the Mediterranean."
Fall 2024 Plays Covered: Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Othello
"Shakespeare and Happiness is a study of attitudes to happiness in the early modern period and in Shakespeare’s plays. It considers the conflicting influences of religion and Aristotelian philosophy in shaping attitudes to the possibility of attaining happiness."
Fall 2024 Plays Covered: Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Measure for Measure, Othello, and The Winter's Tale
"Shakespeare’s Suicides: Dead Bodies That Matter is the first study in Shakespeare criticism to examine the entirety of Shakespeare’s dramatic suicides."
Fall 2024 Plays Covered: Hamlet, Othello
"Shakespeare's Thought: Unobserved Details and Unsuspected Depths in Eleven Plays demonstrates that Shakespeare's plays were conceived and executed as studies of great moral and political issues."
Fall 2024 Plays Covered: Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet
"This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world."
Fall 2024 Plays Covered: Twelfth Night, The Winter's Tale, Hamlet
"Race may dominate everyday speech, media headlines and public policy, yet still questions of racialized blackness and whiteness in Shakespeare are resisted. In his compelling new book Ian Smith addresses the influence of systemic whiteness on the interpretation of Shakespeare's plays." - Syndetics
Fall 2024 Plays Covered: Othello, Hamlet
Below is a selection of subject headings relevant to English 312. Subject headings are terms applied to books that are in the library collection from a curated list of terms and have been chosen by a library professional. Click on the links below to see a list of library books related to these subjects.
If you search for a title of a play in the search box, it will look for the play itself.
If you want to find books about the play, type in the title of the play into the search box (above) and click search. From the results page, click on the "Advanced Search" link underneath the search box. From the advanced search page click on "Select a Field (optional) from the drop down list to the right of the search box and click "SU Subject Terms" before clicking the "Search" button in blue to the right of the search box. See screenshots below.
Image 1: Example of a search for "Hamlet" as a keyword which brings up the text of the play. Red box highlighting "Advanced Search" link to click.
Image 2: Once the advanced search page is open, click on the "Select a Field" drop down list and click on "SU Subject Terms" to change the search to find books about the play "Hamlet"
Image 3: Using the "SU Subject Terms" search for "Hamlet" a new set of results appears versus Image 1 results list.
Although ENGL 312 is being conducted online for Fall 2024, students may still want to request physical items.
Print books are shelved by call number. The following call number areas are relevant to English 312. Click on the links to see the books in those subjects by campus.
| In Chilliwack | In Abbotsford | |
| DA 250 - DA 360 | DA 250 - DA 360 | English History Elizabethan Era |
| PR 2750 - PR 3112 | PR 2750 - PR 3112 | Shakespeare |
| PR 2199 - PR 3195 | PR 2199 - PR 3195 | English Renaissance (1500 - 1640) |
"What was life like in Shakespeare's time - or, what did people then say it was like? This volume provides a picture of the age, with a selection of accounts of Elizabethan and Jacobean life taken from books, plays, poems, letters, diaries and pamphlets by and about Shakespeare's contemporaries." [Syndetic Solutions]
Chilliwack Campus Library
"This book begins with an overview of ecological modernity across Shakespeare's work before focusing on three major environmental controversies in particular plays: deforestation in The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Tempest; profit-driven agriculture in As You Like It; and gunpowder warfare and remedial cultivation in Henry IV Parts One and Two, Henry V, and Macbeth. A fourth chapter examines the interdependency of local and global eco-relations in Cymbeline, and the final chapter explores Darwinian micro-ecologies in Hamlet and Antony and Cleopatra." [Syndetic Solutions]
Abbotsford Campus Library
"Women in the Age of Shakespeare explores the ancient and medieval ideas that Shakespeare drew upon in creating his great comedic and tragic heroines. It then looks at how these ideas intersected with the lived experiences of women of Shakespeare's time, followed by a close look at the major female characters in Shakespeare's plays and poems."[Syndetic Solutions]
Abbotsford Campus Library
"A collection of the most significant Elizabethan and Jacobean texts on the morality of the theater. Includes attacks on the stage by moralists, defences by actors and playwrights, letters by magistrates, mayors and aldermen of London, and extracts from legislation. Demonstrates just how heated debates about the theater became in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries." [Syndetic Solutions]
Abbotsford Campus Library
"Shakespeare's plays were the product of his culture and reflect the daily life of Elizabethans. This book examines the religious background of his works and helps students use his plays to understand religion in Elizabethan England. " [Syndetic Solutions]
Abbotsford Campus Library
"Canadian Shakespeare brings together much of the best critical writing to explore Canadian engagement with Shakespeare over the last twenty years." [Syndetic Solutions]
Chilliwack Campus Library