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Samuel Tannenbaum Shakespeariana collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-020
Abstract

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

Dates: 1850-1977

Article reprints and pamphlets, 1879-1947

 Series — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS020:02
Scope and Contents

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

Dates: 1879-1947

The Phoenix and Turtle

 File — Box: 06, Folder: 01
Identifier: MSS020:02.29
Scope and Contents

The document examines the historical and critical interpretation of the poem The Phoenix and the Turtle as well as discusses the failure of previous critics and biographers to establish original interpretations.

Dates: 1879-1947

The Travelling Players in Shakespeare's England, 1920

 File — Box: 06, Folder: 02
Identifier: MSS020:02.30
Scope and Contents

The document discusses the traveling players that were seen around Shakespeare's England and the impact they had on the theatre community.

Dates: 1920

A Note Upon William Shakespeare's Use of Pliny

 File — Box: 06, Folder: 03
Identifier: MSS020:02.31
Scope and Contents

The document discusses Shakespeares possible knowledge of Pliny's writings of Natural History and used certain passages in various lines within his works.

Dates: 1879-1947

Unfamiliar Versions of some Elizabethan poems, 1930

 File — Box: 06, Folder: 04
Identifier: MSS020:02.32
Scope and Contents

The document discusses a book of poems discovered in Dr. Rosenbach's New York library that contains various unfamiliar Elizabethan poems signed anonymously.

Dates: 1930

Robert Poley's Ciphers, 1931

 File — Box: 06, Folder: 05
Identifier: MSS020:02.33
Scope and Contents

The document lists and discusses Robert Poley's possible connection to the spy business and includes various ciphers that he used to relay information to the authorities.

Dates: 1931

Political themes in Shakespeare's later plays, 1936

 File — Box: 06, Folder: 06
Identifier: MSS020:02.34
Scope and Contents

The document discuses political movements and advances in throughtout Elizabethan England and how they influenced Shakespeare to add certain political themes into his works to reflect the time.

Dates: 1936

'A Pore Helpe' and its printers, 1928

 File — Box: 06, Folder: 07
Identifier: MSS020:02.35
Scope and Contents

The document discusses how religious literature of the reign of Edward VI were mostly printed anonymously and discusses the possible printers of one such literature known as "A pore Helpe"

Dates: 1928

The Elizabethan printer and dramatic manuscripts, 1931

 File — Box: 06, Folder: 08
Identifier: MSS020:02.36
Scope and Contents

The document discusses how early Elizabethan works contained many errors and whether or not there was a corrector to the press and if he may have been illiterate.

Dates: 1931