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Shakespeare's plays, plus related works including analysis, commentary and criticism.

See also the shelf labeled shakespeariana and the lists tagged with shakespeare.

popular shakespeare books (showing 1-50 of 549)

Romeo and Juliet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 393 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.78 — 190,522 ratings — published 1595

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Macbeth (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 370 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.73 — 12 ratings — published 2003

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Hamlet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 366 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,410 ratings — published 1386

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 330 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.93 — 29,973 ratings — published 1596

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Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 273 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.90 — 22,622 ratings — published 1622

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The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 248 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,186 ratings — published 1609

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King Lear (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 241 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,371 ratings — published 1606

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Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 228 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.06 — 16,800 ratings — published 1600

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JULIUS CAESAR CD (Caedmon Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 213 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1601

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The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 209 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,555 ratings — published 1600

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The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 203 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.83 — 14,764 ratings — published 1594

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Twelth Night: or What You Will (Illustrated, 1960) (The Folger Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 202 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.08 — 15 ratings — published 1623

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As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 142 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,273 ratings — published 1623

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Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 112 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,174 ratings — published 1623

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The Tragedy of King Richard III (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 111 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,517 ratings — published 1602

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Henry V (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 102 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.88 — 4,819 ratings — published 1599

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The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 89 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,194 ratings — published 1624

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King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 88 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,932 ratings — published 1597

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The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 86 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.65 — 2,384 ratings — published 1609

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Measure for Measure (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 79 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,601 ratings — published 1604

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Titus Andronicus (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 73 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.66 — 3,061 ratings — published 1594

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All's Well That Ends Well (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 68 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,164 ratings — published 1623

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Henry IV, Part 2 (Henry IV, Part II)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 53 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,667 ratings — published 1599

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Love's Labour's Lost (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 51 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.53 — 1,321 ratings — published 1598

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William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, Deluxe Edition (Leather Bound)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 51 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.62 — 1,683 ratings — published 1864

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 49 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.44 — 1,284 ratings — published 1623

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Love Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 45 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,817 ratings — published 1600

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Cymbeline (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.46 — 849 ratings — published 1623

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Coriolanus (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.30 — 815 ratings — published 1623

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Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,982 ratings — published 1609

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Richard II (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 41 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,196 ratings — published 1595

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Troilus and Cressida (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 40 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.34 — 829 ratings — published 1609

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The Merry Wives Of Windsor (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 38 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.48 — 990 ratings — published 1602

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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by Stephen Greenblatt (shelved 32 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,411 ratings — published 2004

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Pericles (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 27 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.39 — 600 ratings — published 1609

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The Riverside Shakespeare (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 23 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.66 — 1,348 ratings — published 1973

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Shakespeare: The World As Stage (Eminent Lives)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 23 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.69 — 2,818 ratings — published 2007

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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom (shelved 21 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.00 — 740 ratings — published 1998

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by Tom Stoppard (shelved 20 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.14 — 7,947 ratings — published 1967

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Henry VIII (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 20 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.52 — 481 ratings — published 1623

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Timon of Athens (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 20 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.23 — 346 ratings — published 1623

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King John (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 19 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.20 — 318 ratings — published 1962

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Hamlet: By William Shakespeare (Film Diary)
by Kenneth Branagh (shelved 15 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.16 — 841 ratings — published 1603

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King Henry VI, Part 3 (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 14 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.74 — 196 ratings — published 1595

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Henry VI, Part 2 (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 14 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.71 — 333 ratings — published 1594

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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (P.S.)
by James Shapiro (shelved 14 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.05 — 257 ratings — published 2005

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Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth (Signet Classics)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 11 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.36 — 454 ratings — published 1000

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Henry VI, Part 1 (The Pelican Shakespeare)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 10 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.58 — 170 ratings — published 1988

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The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups (Hardcover)
by Ron Rosenbaum (shelved 10 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.83 — 169 ratings — published 2006

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