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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 557)

Romeo and Juliet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 413 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.78 — 202,754 ratings — published 1595

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Macbeth (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 386 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.88 — 39,487 ratings — published 2003

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Hamlet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 370 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,109 ratings — published 1601

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A Midsummer Night's Dream (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 342 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.93 — 30,989 ratings — published 1596

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Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 282 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.90 — 23,357 ratings — published 1622

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The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 258 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,529 ratings — published 1609

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King Lear (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 251 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,935 ratings — published 1606

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Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 234 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,201 ratings — published 1600

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Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 221 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.54 — 15,908 ratings — published 1601

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The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 215 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,930 ratings — published 1600

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The Taming of the Shrew (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 211 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.83 — 15,257 ratings — published 1594

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Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 211 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,554 ratings — published 1623

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As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 149 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,542 ratings — published 1623

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Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 117 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,321 ratings — published 1623

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The Tragedy of King Richard III (Oxford World's Classics)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 115 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.89 — 4,658 ratings — published 1602

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Henry V (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 104 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,976 ratings — published 1599

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King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 103 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,035 ratings — published 1597

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The Winter's Tale (Webster's French Thesaurus Edition)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 93 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 1609

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The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 91 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,290 ratings — published 1624

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Measure for Measure (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 80 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,690 ratings — published 1604

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Titus Andronicus (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 74 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,147 ratings — published 1594

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All's Well That Ends Well (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 70 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.61 — 2,217 ratings — published 1623

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Henry IV, Part 2 (Henry IV, Part II)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 55 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.75 — 1,696 ratings — published 1599

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Complete Works (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 54 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 0.0 — 1 rating — published 1864

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Love's Labour's Lost (Arden Shakespeare: Third Series)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 52 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.52 — 1,366 ratings — published 1598

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The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 49 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.45 — 1,329 ratings — published 1623

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Love Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 46 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,902 ratings — published 1600

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Cymbeline (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 45 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.46 — 879 ratings — published 1623

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Richard II (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,231 ratings — published 1595

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Troilus and Cressida (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.34 — 858 ratings — published 1609

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Coriolanus (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.30 — 838 ratings — published 1623

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Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,037 ratings — published 1609

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The Merry Wives Of Windsor (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 41 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,029 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 — 1,452 ratings — published 2004

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Pericles (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 27 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.39 — 616 ratings — published 1609

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The Riverside Shakespeare (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 23 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.65 — 1,378 ratings — published 1973

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Shakespeare: The World As Stage (Eminent Lives)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 23 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,925 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 — 763 ratings — published 1998

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Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by Tom Stoppard (shelved 21 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,233 ratings — published 1967

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Henry VIII (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 20 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.50 — 503 ratings — published 1623

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Timon of Athens (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 20 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.22 — 357 ratings — published 1623

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King John (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 19 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.20 — 328 ratings — published 1962

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Hamlet: By William Shakespeare (Film Diary)
by Kenneth Branagh (shelved 15 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.14 — 864 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 — 204 ratings — published 1595

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Henry VI, Part 2 (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 14 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.72 — 344 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 4.04 — 259 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 4.37 — 485 ratings — published 1000

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The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups (Hardcover)
by Ron Rosenbaum (shelved 10 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.84 — 172 ratings — published 2006

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Shakespeare After All (Paperback)
by Marjorie B. Garber (shelved 10 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.32 — 174 ratings — published 2004

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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, Vols. 1-2 (Hardcover)
by Isaac Asimov (shelved 9 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.10 — 305 ratings — published 1970

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