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Shakespeare, William

Barton, Anne. Shakespeare and the Idea of the Play. London: Greenwood Press, 1977. Important study of Shakepeare's impact on the evolution of theatre.

Blake, N. F. Shakespeare's Language. An Introduction. Basingstoke and London: Macmillan, 1983. Stimulating introduction.

Brook, G. L. The Language of Shakespeare. London: André Deutsch, 1976. Good modern survey.

Bullough, Geoffrey, ed. Narrative and Dramatic Sources of Shakespeare. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1957-1975. Indispensable comprehensive account of sources and important texts, with introductions to each.

Cartelli, Thomas. Marlowe, Shakespeare, and the Economy of Theatrical Experience. Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991. Useful study relating the text to the performance of their plays.

Chambers, E. K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Still very useful, authoritative collection of the surveys of the evidence regarding Shakespeare's life and plays.

Drakakis, John, ed. Alternative Shakespeares. London: Methuen, 1985. Study on the question of Shakespeare's identity.

Halliday, F. E. A Shakespeare Companion, 1564-1964. London: Duckworth, Useful dictionary-style study, comprehensive for its size, good on textual matters, theatrical companies, contemporary documents and personalities, etc.

Knight, G. Wilson. The Wheel of Fire: Interpretations of Shakespearean Tragedy: with three new essays. London: Methuen, Important study of the plays.

McDonald, Russ. Shakespeare and Jonson/Jonson and Shakespeare. Brighton: Harvester, 1988. A useful comparison which attempts to challenge the segregation of their work.

Muir, Kenneth, and Schoenbaum, S., eds. A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies. London: Cambridge University Press, 1971. Eighteen essays on general aspects such as Shakespeare's language, social and historical background, and the history of Shakespeare criticism, among others.

Reese, M. M. Shakespeare: His World and his Work. London: Edward Arnold, Reliable and popular study.

Schoenbaum, Samuel. Shakespeare's Lives. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970. History of Shakespeare's biographers, biographies, and legends which leaves the reader with a sound idea of Shakespeare's life.

Tillyard, E. M. W. The Elizabethan World picture. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. A neat view but the best introduction to Shakespeare's times and Renaissance thought in England.

Vickers, Brian. Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1993. Synthesises recent critical theories and practices.

Vickers, Brian. Shakespeare: the Critical Heritage. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1974-1981. Most important source on early Shakespeare criticism.

Wells, Stanley, ed. Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. A very useful collection which gathers together a wide variety of Shakespeare studies.