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Design for Stage and Screen: Culture & Society in the Medieval & Renaissance Period

Culture & Society in the Medieval & Renaissance Period

◼ Arnold, Janet. Patterns of Fashion: The Cut and Construction of Clothes for Men and Women 1560-1620. London: Macmillan, 1985. Call number: 792.026 ARN

◼ Arnold, Janet. Queen Elizabeth’s Wardrobe Unlock’d. Leeds: Maney Publishing, 1988. Call number: 391.022 QUE

◼ Aston, Margaret. (ed.) The Renaissance Complete. London and New York: Thames and Hudson, 2009. Call number: 940.21 REN

◼ Beadle, Richard. The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre.  Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. Call number: 792.0942 CAM

◼ Cerasano. SP (ed.) Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press: Cranbury, New Jersey, 2011. eBook

◼ Cox, John D. The Devil and the Sacred in English drama: 1350-1642. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2000. eBook

◼ Gragnolati, Maneule and Almut Suerbaum (eds.) Aspects of the Performative in Medieval Culture. Berlin and New York: De Gruyeter Press, 2010. eBook

◼ Greenblatt, Stephen Jay. Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984. Call number: 820.9 GRE

◼ Hill, Janet. Stages and Playgoers: From Guild Plays to Shakespeare.  Montreal and Ithaca, New York: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. eBook

◼ Hunt, Jocelyn. The Renaissance. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. eBook 

◼ Pastoureau, Michel. Blue: The History of A Color. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 2000. Call number: 155.91145 PAS

◼ Ribero, Aileen. Fashion and Fiction: Dress in Art and Literature in Stuart England. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2005. Call number: 700 RIB

◼ Scott, Robert. The Gothic Enterprise: Understanding the Medieval Cathedral. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011. eBook

◼ Stalley. Roger. Early Medieval Architecture. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. Call number: 723 STA

◼ Warner, Marina. Alone of All Her Sex: The Myth and Cult of the Virgin Mary. London: Vintage, 2000. Call number: 232.91 WAR

◼ White, Martin. Renaissance Drama in Action: An Introduction to Aspects of Theatre Practice and Performance. London and New York: Routledge, 1998. Call number: 792.0941 WHI

◼ Wright, Esmond (ed) The Medieval and Renaissance World. London and New York: Hamlyn, 1979. Call number: 940.21 MED

◼ Barker, Simon and Hilary Hinds (eds.) The Routledge Anthology of Renaissance Drama. London and New York: Routledge, 2003. Call number: 822.308 ROU. Also available as an eBook