Coolest Nonfiction Books about Shakespeare
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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's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects
by:
Neil MacGregor
4.21 avg rating — 1,231 ratings 7. 
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So Long as Men Can Breathe: The Untold Story of Shakespeare s Sonnets
by:
Clinton Heylin
3.63 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World
by:
Paul Collins
4.02 avg rating — 405 ratings 
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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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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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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons From a Renaissance Education
by:
Scott L. Newstok
3.87 avg rating — 379 ratings 13. 
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
by:
Will Tosh
4.27 avg rating — 223 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 — 183 ratings 20. 
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Shakespeare, the King's Playwright: Theater in the Stuart Court, 1603-1613
by:
Alvin Kernan
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings 
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Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama
by:
Peter Saccio
3.95 avg rating — 291 ratings 
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The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
by:
E.M.W. Tillyard
3.81 avg rating — 825 ratings 
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Thou Spleeny Swag-Bellied Miscreant: Create Your Own Shakespearean Insults
by:
Sarah Royal
4.33 avg rating — 49 ratings 
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Shakespeare and the Stuff of Life: Treasures from the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust
by:
Delia Garratt
4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Shakespeare's Pub: A Barstool History of London as Seen Through the Windows of Its Oldest Pub - The George Inn
by:
Pete Brown
3.80 avg rating — 475 ratings 39. 
Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough: Diagnosing the Medical Groans and Last Gasps of Ten Great Writers
by:
John J. Ross
3.76 avg rating — 435 ratings 
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Shakespeare's Common Prayers: The Book of Common Prayer and the Elizabethan Age
by:
Daniel Swift
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 30 ratings 
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Songs from Shakespeare's Plays and Popular Songs of Shakespeare's Time
by:
Tom Kines
3.83 avg rating — 6 ratings 
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Shakespeare in America: An Anthology from the Revolution to Now
by:
James Shapiro
4.06 avg rating — 77 ratings 48. 
Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard
by:
Jack Lynch
3.77 avg rating — 169 ratings 49. 
Worlds Elsewhere: Journeys Around Shakespeare's Globe
by:
Andrew Dickson
3.70 avg rating — 106 ratings 50. 
The Poet of Them All: William Shakespeare and Miniature Designer Bindings from the Collection of Neale and Margaret Albert it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio
by:
Andrea Mays
3.92 avg rating — 943 ratings 54. 
Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globe
by:
Chris Laoutaris
3.34 avg rating — 83 ratings 
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London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
by:
Stephen Alford
3.93 avg rating — 134 ratings 58. 
Four Birds of Noah's Ark: A Prayer Book from the Time of Shakespeare
by:
Thomas Dekker
4.21 avg rating — 28 ratings 
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Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book
by:
Emma Smith
4.01 avg rating — 81 ratings 64. 
Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth 3.63 avg rating — 139 ratings
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The Shakespeare Thefts: In Search of the First Folios
by:
Eric Rasmussen
3.56 avg rating — 413 ratings 66. 
