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Acting Shakespeare, by John Gielgud

Acting with Shakespeare: The Comedies, by Janet Suzman

Adaptations of Shakespeare: A Critical Anthology, edited by Daniel Fischlin and Mark Fortier

The Arden Dictionary of Shakespeare Quotations, compiled by Jane Armstrong

The Arden Shakespeare Complete Works, edited by Richard Proudfoot, Ann Thompson, and David Scott Kastan

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, by Helen Hennessy Vendler

Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide to Six Shakespeare Plays, by Peter J. Leithart

Bulfinch's Mythology, by Thomas Bulfinch

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, edited by Margreta De Grazia and Stanley W. Wells

The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, edited by Russell Jackson

The Children of Henry VIII, by Alison Weir

Clues to Acting Shakespeare: Skills Clarified for the Actor, Student, and Reader, by Wesley Van Tassel

Cleopatra, by Michael Grant

Coined by Shakespeare: Words and Meanings First Used by the Bard, by Jeffrey McQuain and Stanley Malless

A Companion to the Shakespearean Films of Kenneth Branagh, by Sarah Hatchuel

Daily Life in Elizabethan England, by Jeffrey L. Singman

Dictionary of Classical Mythology, by John Edward Zimmerman

A Dictionary of Shakespeare, by Stanley Wells and James Shaw

The Friendly Shakespeare: A Thoroughly Painless Guide to the Best of the Bard, by Norrie Epstein

From Shakespeare to Existentialism, by Walter Kaufmann

Greek Gods and Heroes, by Robert Graves The Greek Myths, by Robert Graves

Henry V, War Criminal? and Other Shakespeare Puzzles, by John Sutherland, et al.

Heroes, Gods and Monsters of the Greek Myth, by Bernard Evslin

A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television, by Kenneth S. Rothwell and Kenneth J. Rothwell

Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen, by Deborah Cartmell

Lectures on Shakespeare, by W. H. Auden

The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, by Antonia Fraser

The Military Campaigns of the Wars of the Roses, by Philip A. Haigh

The Merchant of Venice: Choice, Hazard and Consequence, by Joan Ozark Holmer

The Merchant of Venice Study Guide, by Bethine Ellie

Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes, by Edith Hamilton

Othello: A Guide to the Play, edited by Joan Lord Hall

Shakespeare's Kings: The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337–1485, by John Julius Norwich

Orson Welles, Shakespeare, and Popular Culture, by Michael Anderegg

The Purpose of Playing: Shakespeare and the Cultural Politics of Elizabethan Theatre, by Louis Montrose

The Reader's Encyclopedia of Shakespeare, edited by Oscar James Campbell and George Quinn

Romeo & Juliet Study Guide, by Bethine Ellie

Shakespeare's England: Life in Elizabethan and Jacobean Times, by Ron Pritchard

Shakespeare's Globe Rebuilt, edited by J. R. Mulryne and Margaret Shewring

A Shakespeare Glossary, by C. T. Onions

Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human, by Harold Bloom

Shakespeare and the Jews, by James Shapiro

Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, by Alexander Schmidt

Shakespeare in the Movies: From the Silent Era to Shakespeare in Love, by Douglas C. Brode

Shakespeare's Sonnets: Critical Essays, edited by James Schiffer

Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth, by A. C. Bradley

Shakespeare's Women in Love, by Alice Griffin

Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video, edited by Lynda E. Boose and Richard Burt

Shakespeare's Mystery Play: The Opening of the Globe Theatre 1599, by Steve Sohmer

Shakespeare's Theatre, by Andrew Langley

Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres, by Andrew Gurr and Mariko Ichikawa

Shakespeare After Theory, by David Scott Kastan

Tempest: Complete Study Edition, edited by Sidney Lamb

Thy Father Is a Gorbellied Codpiece: Create over 100,000 of Your Own Shakespearean Insults, by Barry Kraft

Twelfth Night: A User's Guide, by Michael Pennington

Understanding Hamlet, by Don Nardo

Understanding Hamlet: A Student Casebook to Issues, Sources, and Historical Documents, by Richard Corum

Understanding Macbeth: A Student Casebook to Issues Sources, and Historical Documents, by Faith Nostbakken

Understanding The Merchant of Venice: A Student Casebook to Issues Sources, and Historical Documents, by Jay L. Halio

Understanding Othello: A Student Casebook to Issues Sources, and Historical Documents, by Faith Nostbakken

Understanding Romeo and Juliet, by Thomas E. Thrasher

Understanding Romeo and Juliet: A Student Casebook to Issues Sources, and Historical Documents, edited by Alan Hager

Understanding Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, by Thomas J. Derrick

Welcome to the Globe: The Story of Shakespeare's Theatre, by Peter Chrisp (children's book)

William Shakespeare and the Globe, by Aliki

William Shakespeare: The Man Behind the Genius: A Biography, by Anthony Holden

What Happens in Hamlet, by John Dover Wilson

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, by Stephen Greenblatt

In Search of Shakespeare, by Michael Wood

A Year in the Life of Shakespeare: 1599, by James Shapiro

Shakespeare: The World as Stage, by Bill Bryson

Shakespeare: The Biography, by Peter Ackroyd

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