Resources

The following includes lists of resources, both digital and in print, that prove useful for studying and tracing Shakespearean breeches performances from 1660-1900. These lists will continue to grow and resources will continue to be added as our project develops. If you have a resource that you would like to see added, feel free to reach out via our “Contact” page.

Works Cited

• Burden, Michael and Jonathan Hicks, co-directors. The London Stage Calendar 1800-1844, Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, 2021.
• Greene, John C. and Gladys L.H. Clark, editors. The Dublin Stage, 1720-1745. Lehigh University Press, 1993.
• Hogan, Charles Beecher, editor. Shakespeare in the Theatre, 1701-1800 (two volumes). Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1952. (Note: Hogan includes adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in this volume; accordingly, we have included breeches roles from these adaptations in Points Like A Man)
• Norwood, Janice. “A reference guide to performances of Shakespeare’s plays in nineteenth-century London.” Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Gail Marshall. Cambridge University Press, 2012.
• Van Lennep, William, editor. The London Stage 1660-1800: A Calendar of Plays, Entertainments & Afterpieces Together with Casts, Box-Receipts and Contemporary Comment (five volumes). Southern Illinois University Press, 1965.

Digital Resources

• Ada Rehan and Augustin Daly Collection at the Harry Ransom Center
• The Adelphi Theatre Project
• As You Like It Digitized Promptbook from The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
• British Library’s Introduction to 18th-Century British Theatre
• British Library’s Introduction to 19th-Century British Theatre
• British Library Theatrical Playbills
• Ellen Terry and Edith Craig Database
• Folger Shakespeare Library Playbill Collection (Folgerpedia)
• Hall Collection of Promptbooks at the University of Warwick
• Here is a Play Fitted Exhibition Material from the Folger Shakespeare Library (Folgerpedia)
• List of American Women in 19th-Century Theater (Folgerpedia)
• London Playbills and Programs at the Harry Ransom Center
• LUNA Digital Image Database from the Folger Shakespeare Library
• Performing Restoration Shakespeare
• Playbills of the Theatre Royal, Edinburgh
• R18 Collective Research Resources Page
• Shakespeare in Performance: Prompt Books from the Folger Shakespeare Library Database (subscription only)
• Shakespeare in the Royal Collection Project
• Shakespeare Promptbooks at the Harvard Theatre Collection
• The Shakespeare Train
• Theatregoing Blog

Printed Resources

• Burling, William J. Summer Theatre in London, 1661-1820, and the Rise of the Haymarket Theatre. Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2000.
• The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage, eds. Stanley Wells and Sarah Stanton. Cambridge University Press, 2002.
• The Colonial American Stage, 1665-1774: A Documentary Calendar, eds. Odai Johnson and William J. Burling. Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.
• Drury Lane Calendar, 1747-1776, ed. Dougald MacMillan. Oxford at the Clarendon Press, 1938.
• Merrill, Lisa. When Romeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators. University of Michigan Press, 2000.
• Mullenix, Elizabeth Reitz. Wearing the Breeches: Gender on the Antebellum Stage. St. Martin’s Press, 2000.
• Nagler, A.M. A Source Book in Theatrical History. Dover, 1959.
• Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century, ed. Gail Marshall. Cambridge University Press, 2014.
• Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism (Oxford Shakespeare Topics), ed. Stanley Wells. Oxford University Press, 2000.
• Shattuck, Charles H. The Shakespeare Promptbooks: A Descriptive Catalogue. University of Illinois Press, 1965.
• Smither, Nelle. A History of the English Theatre in New Orleans. Benjamin Blom, 1944.
• Wojczuk, Tana. Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America’s First Celebrity. Avid Reader Press, 2020.
• Women Making Shakespeare: Text, Reception and Performance, eds. Gordon McMullan, Lena Cowen Orlin, and Virginia Mason Vaughan. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare 2014.