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Bibliography

Some ideas for reading. Students should have editions suited to their level of study. The following books offer good background for teachers, some are suitable for pre-university students, all are suitable for undergraduates and mature students. Where they are available, York Notes and New Casebook Notes offer invaluable help, especially for pre-university students.

Where students' budgets are a concern, it is worth noting that Amazon have a used/ secondhand books section where used books can often be purchased more cheaply. The condition of the books is noted on the website. Oxfam also have secondhand bookshops in some areas and these are also worth investigating.

BEOWULF

Many translations of the poem are available, for example, Seamus Heaney's version (1998), Michael Alexander's translation for Penguin Classics (1973). It is helpful to students if you choose one with a good introduction and end or footnotes.

For background to the poem see

Ritchie Girvan, Beowulf and the Seventh Century: Language and Content.

John D. Niles, Beowulf: The Poem and its Tradition.

J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf - The Monsters and the Critics.

It is also worth looking at the Introductions to other scholarly editions such as F. Klaeber Beowulf and the Fight at Finnesburg and C.L.Wrenn and W.F.Bolton, eds., Beowulf with the Finnesburg Fragment.

DR. FAUSTUS

Although many versions are available which are suitable for students, teachers will find extensive help in the Introduction to the critical edition:

Christopher Marlowe, Dr. Faustus, ed. David Bevington, and Eric Rasmussen, The Revels Plays.

For a student-friendly introduction to Marlowe, his plays, including Dr Faustus, and his world see:

Stevie Simkin, Marlowe: The Plays (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001)

Other useful books:

Emily C. Bartels, Spectacles of Strangeness

Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars,

Kenneth Friedenreich, et al., 'A Poet and a Filthie Play-maker': New Essays on Christopher Marlowe.

Roger Sales, Christopher Marlowe

Richard Wilson, Christopher Marlowe, Longman Critical Readers (London: Longman, 1999)

William Zunder, Elizabethan Marlowe

MACBETH

There are many editions to choose from. Arden Classics provide the 'benchmark' for the study of Shakespeare texts but Oxford World's Classics editions are also excellent.

Shakespeare criticism is voluminous, a tiny fraction is suggested here:

Richard Danson Brown and David Johnson, eds, A Shakespeare Reader: Sources and Criticism(Basingstoke: Macmillan, 2000)

Michael Mangan, A Preface to Shakespeare's Tragedies ( London: Longman, 1991)

For background see:

Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic (London: Penguin, 1971)

THE FAERIE QUEENE

The standard critical edition for teachers and lecturers is:

A.C. Hamilton,ed., Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Longman Annotated English Poets (London: Longman, 1977)

Book 1 has been edited as an Open University text, see:

A.C. Bayley,ed. Spenser: The Faerie Queene, Book 1 (Oxford: OUP, 1966. reprinted 1993)

Helpful background material:

J.E.Hankins, Source and Meaning in Spenser's Allegory

Elizabeth Heale, A Reader's Guide to The Faerie Queene.

Michael Leslie, Spenser's 'Fierce Warres and Faithfull Loves'.

For this text and the following see also Richard F. Hardin, Civil Idolatry

PARADISE LOST

There are various editions, the one recommended is John Milton: The Complete English Poems, Of Education, Areopagitica,ed. Gordon Campbell, Everyman's Library (London: Dent 1990)

For background:

The Apocalypse in English Thought and Literature

Eamon Duffy, The Stripping of the Altars

Christopher Hill, Milton and the English Revolution (London: Faber and Faber,1977)

James A. Freeman, Milton and the Martial Muse

For general help with the cultural background to Dr. Faustus, The Faerie Queene, and Paradise Lost:

Isabel Rivers, Classical and Christian Ideas in English Renaissance Poetry.

FRANKENSTEIN

An inexpensive edition is

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein,ed. M.K.Joseph, World's Classics (Oxford: OUP, 1969)

For background to this text see:

Chris Baldick, In Frankenstein's Shadow

Stephen Bann, Frankenstein, Creation and Monstrosity

Fred Botting, Making Monstrous

Anne K. Mellor, Mary Shelley

Marie-Helene Huet, Monstrous Imagination

DRACULA

An excellent edition with helpful essays and notes is:

Bram Stoker, Dracula,ed. Nina Auerbach and David J. Skal, Norton Critical Edition ( New York: W.W. Norton and Comapny, 1997) . The Introduction together with the essays in this book provide enough background material and criticism to get undergraduates started.

For undergraduates - David Glover, Vampires, Mummies and Liberals: Bram Stoker and the Politics of Popular Fiction (Durham: Duke University Press, 1996)

POETRY

There are many good anthologies of poetry but for the recommended poems see

Robert Browning, Men Women and Other Poems (J.M. Dent, 1975). An abridged edition, issued as a Phoenix Paperback by Orion Books is a real bargain but has no introduction or notes.

Tennyson (Penguin, 1941). The poem listed as 'Blow Bugle Blow' in Rosenthal's anthology, is actually Song III from Ten Songs from 'The Princess', published in this volume together with The Lady of Shallott.

The Cambridge Anthology of English Poetry

M.L. Rosenthal, Poetry in English: An Anthology (OUP, 1987)

W.B.Yeats, Selected Poetry (Pan 1990), a wander through these poems offers insights into the powerful imagery of the Celtic Twilight, and offer suggestive echoes or some of Tolkien's imagery.

W.B. Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (Macmillan 1933)

For help with poetry in general see

John Peck, How to Study a Poet, Macmillan Study Guides

M.L. Rosenthal, Poetry in English: An Anthology (OUP, 1987). Has a useful and user-friendly section at the back on scansion and other technical matters.

LORD OF THE FLIES

William Golding, Lord of the Flies (London: Faber and Faber, 1954)

LORD OF THE RINGS

The one-volume paperback edition by HarperCollins is inexpensive, quite readable, contains all the Notes, Forward, Prologue and Appendices. There are many other editions to suit all budgets. If pre-university students are only studying The Fellowship of the Ring, the individual parts of the book are published separately, so this can be obtained without having to buy the whole of The Lord of the Rings.

And extensive bibliography can be found on the Tolkien Society Education web pages.

THE FILMS

Noel Carroll, Mystifying Movies

Richard Maltby, Harmless Entertainment: Hollywood and the Ideology of Consensus

Background to the 'loss of the American hero' :

Stephen Barber, America in Retreat (Northumberland Press 1970)

David Steigerwald, The Sixties and the End of Modern America (St Martin's Press, 1995)

Tom Wells, The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam (Univ of California Press, 1994)

Theodore White, America in Search of Itself (Johnathan Cape, 1982)

Background material:

Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth (Doubleday 1989)

Robert Graves, The New Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology (Hamlyn 1968)

Pierre Grimal, World Mythology (Hamlyn, 1984)

Edmuch Leach, Levi-Strauss (Fontana/Collins, 1968)

G. Charbonnier, Conversations with Claude Levi Strauss (Jonathan Cape, 1969)

V. Propp, Morphology of the Folk Tale (Univ of Texas Press, 1968)

Roger Sale, Fairy Tales and After (Harvard University Press, 1979)

Roger C. Schlobin,ed., The Aesthetics of Fantasy Literature and Art (Univ. of Notre Dame Press, 1982)

Ivan Strenski, Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth Century History (Macmillan, 1987)

J.R.R. Tolkien, Tree and Leaf (Unwin, 1975)

C.J. Jung, The Spirit of Man, Art and Literature. vol 15, The Collected Works of CJ. Jung, pt. IV, 'On the Relation of Analytical Psychology to Poetry'

Sigmund Freud, Civilisation and its Discontents, rev and ed. James Strachey (Hogarth Press 1982), esp. p. 46-52