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.

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.

The material includes an essay written by Jack D. A. Ogilvy about Anglo-Latin scholarship and the different schools and libraries which offered this type of education. Writen on the title page is a letter from Ogilvy to a Professor Bryan regarding the essay.

The material includes a response essay to an article written by Mr. Skyes, regarding the authorship of the Webster-Middelton play Anything for a Quiet Life. The document discusses which of the two dramatists had more of a hand in the conception of this play. The article was written by W.D. Dunkel.

The material includes a document discussing, looking at the historical context, and how Shakespeare portrays certain characters in his plays if he was Aristocratic. It was written by Albert H. Tolman.