Books on Shakespeare
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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
by:
James Shapiro
4.09 avg rating β 3,161 ratings 
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Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk
by:
Jane Sutcliffe
4.21 avg rating β 424 ratings 8. 
Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects
by:
Neil MacGregor
4.21 avg rating β 1,231 ratings 
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Y is for Yorick: A Slightly Irreverent Shakespearean ABC Book for Grown-Ups
by:
Jennifer Adams
3.94 avg rating β 183 ratings 13. 
Shakespeare's London Theatreland: Archaeology, History and Drama
by:
Julian Bowsher
3.69 avg rating β 13 ratings 14. 
Shakespeare's London: Everyday Life in London 1580-1616
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Stephen Porter
3.86 avg rating β 51 ratings 
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Shakespeare Madness & Music: Scoring Insanity in Cinematic Adaptations 4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons From a Renaissance Education
by:
Scott L. Newstok
3.87 avg rating β 379 ratings 18. 
Presenting Shakespeare: 1,100 Posters from Around the World
by:
Mirko IliΔ
4.60 avg rating β 25 ratings 18. 
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Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
by:
Will Tosh
4.27 avg rating β 223 ratings 
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Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature 4.18 avg rating β 1,399 ratings
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Francis Bacon's Hidden Hand in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating
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Shakespeare and John Dee co-wrote The Tempest: Prospero's Island is Rhode Island
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James Alan Egan
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
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Shakespeare identified: in Edward de Vere the Seventeenth Earl of Oxford
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J. Thomas Looney
4.60 avg rating β 5 ratings 
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Phantasmatic Shakespeare: Imagination in the Age of Early Modern Science 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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The Shakespeare Requirement (Jason Fitger, #2)
by:
Julie Schumacher
3.74 avg rating β 3,914 ratings 
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The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard
by:
Norrie Epstein
4.12 avg rating β 304 ratings 
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Shakespeare's Library: Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
by:
Stuart Kells
3.38 avg rating β 234 ratings 42. 
Shakespearean Puzzles: Essays on Textual, Dramatic, and Biographical Enigmas in Some Plays by Shakespeare 0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings
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Essays on World Literature: Aeschylus β’ Dante β’ Shakespeare
by:
Ismail Kadare
4.04 avg rating β 25 ratings 44. 
The Hand on the Shakespearean Stage: Gesture, Touch and the Spectacle of Dismemberment 4.33 avg rating β 18 ratings
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London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
by:
Stephen Alford
3.93 avg rating β 134 ratings 
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Four Birds of Noah's Ark: A Prayer Book from the Time of Shakespeare
by:
Thomas Dekker
4.21 avg rating β 28 ratings 49. 
Shakespiritualism: Shakespeare and the Occult, 1850β1950
by:
Jeffrey Kahan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating β 1 rating 
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Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language
by:
David Crystal
3.80 avg rating β 116 ratings 
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Shakespeareβs Representation of Weather, Climate and Environment: The Early Modern βFated Skyβ
by:
Sophie Chiari
3.67 avg rating β 3 ratings 
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Shakespeare's Spiral: Tracing the Snail in King Lear and Renaissance Painting 3.75 avg rating β 4 ratings
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In Search of Shakespeare: A Reconnaissance Into the Poet's Life and Handwriting 4.33 avg rating β 3 ratings
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Shakespeare is Hard, But So is Life: A Radical Guide to Shakespearian Tragedy
by:
Fintan O'Toole
3.84 avg rating β 242 ratings 70. 
Shakespearean Maternities: Crises of Conception in Early Modern England
by:
Chris Laoutaris
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 2 ratings 70. 
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"We Three": The Mythology of Shakespeare's Weird Sisters
by:
Laura Shamas
4.22 avg rating β 9 ratings 73. 
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
by:
Emma Smith
4.01 avg rating β 81 ratings 76. 
Staging Shakespeare's Hamlet: A Director's Interpreting Text Through Performance
by:
Lars Kaaber
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 76. 
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Murdering Ministers: A Close Look at Shakespeareβs Macbeth in Text, Context and Performance
by:
Lars Kaaber
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β 1 rating 79. 
Shakespeare's Beehive: An Annotated Elizabethan Dictionary Comes to Light
by:
George Koppelman
4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings 
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Brick Shakespeare: The ComediesβA Midsummer Night's Dream, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Taming of the Shrew
by:
John D. McCann
3.83 avg rating β 63 ratings 82. 
Seven Shakespeares: A Discussion of the Evidence for Various Theories with Regard to Shakespeare's Identity
by:
Gilbert Slater
0.00 avg rating β 0 ratings 
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Naming Thy Name: Cross Talk in Shakespeare's Sonnets
by:
Elaine Scarry
3.64 avg rating β 22 ratings 89. 
Shakespeare's Tragic Heroes, Slaves of Passion. With Appendices on Bradley's Interpretation of Shakespearean Tragedy. 3.72 avg rating β 18 ratings
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The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios
by:
Eric Rasmussen
3.56 avg rating β 413 ratings 91. 
A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 1: The Tragedies
by:
Richard Dutton
4.14 avg rating β 7 ratings 91. 
Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth 3.63 avg rating β 139 ratings
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So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare s Sonnets
by:
Clinton Heylin
3.63 avg rating β 19 ratings 
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
by:
Claire McEachern
3.80 avg rating β 46 ratings 98. 
How to Study a Shakespeare Play (Bloomsbury Study Skills, 65)
by:
John Peck
3.43 avg rating β 14 ratings 
