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Biography
Peter Ackroyd, Shakespeare
(2006)
Anthony Burgess, Shakespeare
(1970)
Marchette
Chute, Shakespeare of London
(1949)
Katherine
Duncan-Jones, Ungentle Shakespeare
(2001)
Stephen
Greenblatt, Will in the World
(2004)
John
Gross, After Shakespeare
(2002)
Anthony
Holden, Willam Shakespeare: The Man
Behind the Genius (1999)
Park
Honan, Shakespeare: A Life
(1998)
Irvin
Leigh Matus, Shakespeare: The Living Record
(1991)
James
Shapiro, 1599: A Year in the Life of
William Shakespeare
(2005)
Samuel
Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact
Documentary Life (1977)
John Southworth, Shakespeare,
the Player: A Life in the Theatre (2000)
Peter
Thomson, Shakespeare’s
Professional Career (1992)
J.P.
Wearing, The Shakespeare Diaries: A
Fictional Autobiography (2007)
Stanley
Wells, Shakespeare:
A Life in Drama (1995)
Michael
Wood, Shakespeare
(2003)
Plays
Complete
editions
G.
Blakemore Evans, The Riverside Shakespeare
David
Bevington, The Complete Works of Shakespeare
The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
The Norton Shakespeare
William Shakespeare Complete
Works (Modern Library)
The Arden Shakespeare Complete
Works
The Complete
Works of William Shakespeare: The Alexander Text
The First Folio of Shakespeare:
The Norton Facsimile
Single
editions
There
are
many editions of individual plays. Among the scholarly are Arden,
Cambridge, and Oxford. Other good editions aimed at more general
readers are: Signet, Penguin, Pelican, Folger, and Everyman. To locate
these on Amazon, type in either a play title or key words (e.g. Signet
Hamlet) in this box:
Background
Jane
Ashelford, Visual History of Costume: The
Sixteenth Century (1983)
J.
Leeds Barroll, Politics,
Plague, and Shakespeare's Theater: The
Stuart Years (1991)
Caroline
Bingham, James I of England
(1981)
Muriel
St. Clare Byrne, Elizabethan Life in Town and
Country (1961)
S. K.
Heninger, The Cosmographical Glass:
Renaissance Diagrams of the Universe (2005)
Christopher
Hibbert, The Virgin Queen
(1992)
Lisa
Hopkins, Queen Elizabeth I and Her Court
(1990)
S.J.
Houston, James I
(1973)
B.L.
Joseph, Shakespeare's Eden, the
Commonwealth of England 1558-1629
(1971)
Roger
Lockyer, Tudor and Stuart Britain,
1471-1714 (2004)
Russ
McDonald, The Bedford Companion to
Shakespeare (2001)
Allardyce
Nicoll, The
Elizabethans
(1957)
Liza Picard, Elizabeth's London: Everyday
Life in Elizabethan London (2005)
Walter
Raleigh, Shakespeare’s England
(1916)
Gamini
Salgado, The Elizabethan Underworld
(2006)
James
Shapiro, Shakespeare and the Jews
(1996)
Bruce
R. Smith, Homosexual Desire in
Shakespeare's England: A Cultural
Poetics (1991)
Lawrence
Stone, The Family, Sex and Marriage in
England, 1500-1800
(1990)
E.M.W.
Tillyard, The Elizabethan World Picture
(1943)
Reference, etc
Jonathan Bate and Russell Jackson, eds, The Oxford Illustrated History
of Shakespeare on Stage (2001)
David M. Bergeron & Geraldo U. De Sousa, Shakespeare:
A Study and Research Guide (1995)
Charles Boyce, Shakespeare
A to Z: The Essential Reference
(1990)
Oscar J. Campbell & Edward H Quinn, eds. The Reader's Encyclopedia of
Shakespeare (1966)
E. K. Chambers, William
Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems (1930)
David & Ben Crystal, Shakespeare’s Words
(2002)
Margreta de Grazia & Stanley Wells, eds. The Cambridge Companion to
Shakespeare (2001)
Andrew Dickson, The Rough Guide to Shakespeare (2005)
Michael Dobson & Stanley Wells, The Oxford Companion to
Shakespeare (2001)
Leslie Dunton-Downer & Alan Riding, Essential Shakespeare Handbook (2004)
[introductory]
F.E. Halliday, A Shakespeare Companion,
1564-1964 (1964)
David S. Kastan, A Companion to Shakespeare
(1999)
Cal Pritner & Louis Colaianni, How to Speak Shakespeare
(2001)
Stanley Wells, A Dictionary of Shakespeare
(2005)
Theatre
Bernard Beckerman, Shakespeare at the Globe,
1599-1609 (1969)
Gerald E. Bentley, The
Jacobean and Caroline Stage
(1941-68)
Gerald E. Bentley, The Professions of Dramatist
and Player in Shakespeare's Time, 1590-1642
(1986)
E.K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage
(1951)
Ann Jennalie Cook, The Privileged Playgoers of
Shakespeare’s London, 1576-1642 (1981)
R.A. Foakes, & R. T Rickert, eds, Henslowe's Diary
(2002)
Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare's London
(1996)
Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearean Stage 1574-1642
(1992)
Andrew Gurr, Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres
(2002)
Alfred Harbage, Shakespeare’s Audience
(1941)
G.B. Harrison, Introducing Shakespeare
(1991)
C. Walter Hodges, The Globe Restored
(1953)
George R. Kernodle, From Art to Theatre: Form and
Convention in the Renaissance (1944)
Roslyn Knutson, The Repertory of Shakespeare's
Company, 1594-1613 (1991)
Andrew Langley, Shakespeare's Theatre
(1999)
A.M. Nagler, Shakespeare’s Stage
(1958)
Ann Pasternak Slater, Shakespeare the Director
(1982)
Peter Thomson, Shakespeare's Theatre
(1992)
Martin Wiggins, Shakespeare and the Drama of His
Time (2000)
Criticism, general books, etc.
C.L. Barber, Shakespeare's Festive Comedy
(1972)
Jonathan Bate, The Romantics on Shakespeare
(1992)
James P. Bednarz, Shakespeare and the
Poets’ War (2001)
A. C. Bradley, Shakespearean Tragedy
(1904)
Wolfgang Clemen, The Development of Shakespeare's
Imagery (1977)
Harley Granville-Barker, Preface
to "Hamlet" [check
Amazon for his Prefaces on other plays]
Stephen Greenblatt, Renaissance Self-Fashioning
(1983)
E.A.J. Honigmann, Shakespeare: Seven Tragedies
(1976)
Graham Holderness, Shakespeare: The Histories
(2000)
Rusell Jackson, ed, The Cambridge Companion to
Shakespeare on Film
(2000)
Alexander Leggatt, ed, The Cambridge Companion to
Shakespearean Comedy
(2002)
Laurence Lerner, Shakespeare’s
Tragedies: A Selection of
Modern Criticism (1963)
M. M. Mahood, Shakespeare's Wordplay
(1957)
R. W. Maslen, Shakespeare and Comedy
(2005)
A. D. Nuttall, Shakespeare the Thinker
(2007)
Annabel Patterson, Shakespeare and the Popular Voice
(1989)
Irving Ribner, The English History Play in the
Age of Shakespeare (1965)
Anne Righter, Shakespeare and the Idea of the
Play (1962)
Marvin Rosenberg, The Masks of Othello
(1961)
Peter Saccio, Shakespeare's English Kings
(1977)
T. J. B. Spencer, Shakespeare's Plutarch
(1968)
E. M. W. Tillyard, Shakespeare's History Plays
(1944)
J. Dover Wilson, The Fortunes of Falstaff
(1961)
J. Dover Wilson, What Happens in Hamlet (1951)
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