Box 01

Dr. Samuel A. Tannenbaum collected well over 400 article reprints and pamphlets concerning the Renaissance era as it related to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

The material includes Volume 3, Number 2 of Modern Language Quarterly with an article titled "Nature and the Tragic Hero in Chapman's Bussy Plays." The article discusses the ethical and philosophical themes Chapman portrays in his plays.

The materials include various articles about Shakespeare's characters and the imagery behind them. Two documents focus their analysis on the female characters of some of his plays. A couple of the items are in german, one of which concentrates on Shakespeares' female characters and the other one is a speech to the king.

The materials include Volume 10, Number 3 of Modern Philology with an article titled " Notes on the Chastity-Testing Horn and Mantle," which discusses two tools used to test if someone was unfaithful during the Middle Ages and in different cultures.

Dr. Samuel A. Tannenbaum collected well over 400 article reprints and pamphlets concerning the Renaissance era as it related to Shakespeare and his contemporaries.

The materials include two copies of an index for the entire collection. All of the subjects are listed in alphabetical order and include the file and box numbers. There is also listed the titles of the articles and who wrote them plus a brief letter explaining the collection written by Richard E. Moore.

The materials include three articles written about acting and actors in different forms. W. Bailey Kempling writes one document regarding Henry Condell and his particular type of acting along with a biography about his life. The other two articles are written about the style of Elizabethan Acting by Alfred Harbage and Acting in English written for the Monthly Review.

The materials include three articles analyzing the choice in ages for Shakespeare's characters and discussing what classification each character would have. One document talks about adolescent characters in his plays, and the other two discuss older characters and the difference between old age and young.

The material includes a series of notes written by William T. Hastings regarding the Shakespeare play All's Well That Ends Well and some of the characters in it.

The material includes a series of notes written by Fredson Thayer Bowers regarding the Elizabethan play Alphonsus, Emperor of Germany asking questions about the language, composition, and date of the play.