Best Books About Shakespeare

1.
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare 3.87 avg rating — 10,656 ratings
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Shakespeare: The World as Stage 3.82 avg rating — 48,081 ratings
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 4.08 avg rating — 4,227 ratings
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human 4.03 avg rating — 3,667 ratings
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Shakespeare After All
Shakespeare After All 4.39 avg rating — 1,086 ratings
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Shakespeare: The Biography
Shakespeare: The Biography 4.03 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
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The Riverside Shakespeare
The Riverside Shakespeare 4.53 avg rating — 4,687 ratings
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? 4.04 avg rating — 1,772 ratings
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vols. 1-2
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vols. 1-2 4.27 avg rating — 856 ratings
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Shakespeare
Shakespeare 4.16 avg rating — 684 ratings
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Playing Shakespeare: An Actor's Guide
Playing Shakespeare: An Actor's Guide 4.38 avg rating — 613 ratings
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The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 4.06 avg rating — 2,429 ratings
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Shakespearean Tragedy
Shakespearean Tragedy 4.11 avg rating — 815 ratings
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Shakespeare: For All Time
Shakespeare: For All Time 4.14 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street 3.76 avg rating — 767 ratings
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Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story
Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story 3.98 avg rating — 380 ratings
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Shakespeare
Shakespeare 3.86 avg rating — 429 ratings
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The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare's History Plays
The Pragmatics of Early Modern Politics: Power and Kingship in Shakespeare's History Plays it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects
Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects 4.21 avg rating — 1,231 ratings
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Hamlet and Revenge
Hamlet and Revenge 4.45 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The First Folio of Shakespeare: 1623
The First Folio of Shakespeare: 1623 4.78 avg rating — 272 ratings
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Shakespeare of London
Shakespeare of London 4.02 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Poetry 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare 4.25 avg rating — 75 ratings
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Coleridge on Shakespeare: The text of the lectures of 1811-12
Coleridge on Shakespeare: The text of the lectures of 1811-12 3.83 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Shakespeare
Shakespeare 3.80 avg rating — 140 ratings
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William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life
William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life 4.28 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Shakespeare's Lives
Shakespeare's Lives 4.17 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485 3.92 avg rating — 521 ratings
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Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text
Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text 4.14 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Twisted Tales From Shakespeare
Twisted Tales From Shakespeare 4.15 avg rating — 328 ratings
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Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard
Shakespeare on Toast: Getting a Taste for the Bard 4.11 avg rating — 1,166 ratings
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William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion
William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion 4.67 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama
Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama 3.95 avg rating — 291 ratings
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Shakespeare the Thinker
Shakespeare the Thinker 4.14 avg rating — 185 ratings
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The Shakespeare Game: The Mystery of the Great Phoenix
The Shakespeare Game: The Mystery of the Great Phoenix 4.54 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage 4.24 avg rating — 17 ratings
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As She Likes It
As She Likes It
by: Penny Gay
3.56 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Preface to Shakespeare
Preface to Shakespeare 3.61 avg rating — 360 ratings
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Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics 4.12 avg rating — 2,636 ratings
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Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide
Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide 4.29 avg rating — 42 ratings
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What Happens in Hamlet
What Happens in Hamlet 4.12 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare 4.19 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare 4.09 avg rating — 503 ratings
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Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us
Shakespeare's Imagery and What it Tells Us 3.96 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Shakespeare's Ideas
Shakespeare's Ideas 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio
The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio 3.92 avg rating — 943 ratings
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The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright's Universe
by: Dan Falk
3.70 avg rating — 128 ratings
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Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
Shakespeare and His Contemporaries 3.62 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide
The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide 3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Prefaces to Shakespeare (4 Vols. Set)
Prefaces to Shakespeare (4 Vols. Set) 3.67 avg rating — 9 ratings
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The Age of Shakespeare
The Age of Shakespeare 3.67 avg rating — 266 ratings
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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 3: The Comedies
A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 3: The Comedies really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 1: The Tragedies
A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Volume 1: The Tragedies 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World 4.02 avg rating — 405 ratings
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Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion
Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion 4.42 avg rating — 364 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama
The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama 3.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
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A Travel Guide to: Shakespeare's London
A Travel Guide to: Shakespeare's London 3.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem
Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem 4.02 avg rating — 53 ratings
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This Is Shakespeare
This Is Shakespeare 4.26 avg rating — 1,259 ratings
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The Masks of Hamlet
The Masks of Hamlet 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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The Scottish Movie
The Scottish Movie 3.82 avg rating — 28 ratings
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Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention-impaired Readers Guide to the World's Best Playwright
Reduced Shakespeare: The Attention-impaired Readers Guide to the World's Best Playwright 4.12 avg rating — 313 ratings
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The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth & the Reality
The Mysterious William Shakespeare: The Myth & the Reality 4.19 avg rating — 62 ratings
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A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare
A Theatre of Envy: William Shakespeare 4.29 avg rating — 197 ratings
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Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life
Will and Me: How Shakespeare Took Over My Life 3.77 avg rating — 99 ratings
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Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare
Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare 4.03 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Searching for Shakespeare
Searching for Shakespeare 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Shakespeare's Language
Shakespeare's Language really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 427 ratings
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Tales from Shakespeare
Tales from Shakespeare 3.94 avg rating — 6,795 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film 3.80 avg rating — 50 ratings
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The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups 3.93 avg rating — 471 ratings
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Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook
Shakespeare's Theater: A Sourcebook 4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Shakespeare's Bawdy
Shakespeare's Bawdy 4.09 avg rating — 157 ratings
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Making Shakespeare: The Pressures of Stage and Page
Making Shakespeare: The Pressures of Stage and Page 4.43 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England
The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England 4.09 avg rating — 5,667 ratings
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Shakespeare and Opera
Shakespeare and Opera really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Series Q)
Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare (Series Q) 3.87 avg rating — 84 ratings
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The Genius of Shakespeare
The Genius of Shakespeare 4.09 avg rating — 360 ratings
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How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare
How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare 4.22 avg rating — 1,203 ratings
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Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk
Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk 4.21 avg rating — 424 ratings
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Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism
Shakespeare in the Theatre: An Anthology of Criticism 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? -- Exposing an Industry in Denial
Shakespeare Beyond Doubt? -- Exposing an Industry in Denial 4.09 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Shakespeare: A Life in Drama
Shakespeare: A Life in Drama 3.67 avg rating — 18 ratings
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Shakespeare: A Life
Shakespeare: A Life 3.75 avg rating — 179 ratings
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Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book 4.01 avg rating — 81 ratings
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Coffee with Shakespeare (Coffee with...Series)
Coffee with Shakespeare (Coffee with...Series) 3.46 avg rating — 68 ratings
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The Globe Guide to Shakespeare
The Globe Guide to Shakespeare 4.31 avg rating — 103 ratings
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Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard
Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard 3.77 avg rating — 169 ratings
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Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life
Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's Love-Life 3.77 avg rating — 1,300 ratings
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The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained 4.17 avg rating — 644 ratings
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Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience
Shakespeare: The Seven Ages of Human Experience 4.06 avg rating — 17 ratings
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A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice
A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us About Justice 4.05 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Callaghan Feminist Companion to Shakespeare
Callaghan Feminist Companion to Shakespeare 4.08 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare 3.87 avg rating — 67 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's Last Plays 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy 3.80 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy
The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy 3.50 avg rating — 30 ratings
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