Best Books About Shakespeare
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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.
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
Macbeth (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 386 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.88 — 39,487 ratings — published 2003
Hamlet (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 370 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.04 — 40,109 ratings — published 1601
A Midsummer Night's Dream (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 342 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.93 — 30,989 ratings — published 1596
Othello (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 282 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.90 — 23,357 ratings — published 1622
The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 258 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,529 ratings — published 1609
King Lear (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 251 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.88 — 16,935 ratings — published 1606
Much Ado About Nothing (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 234 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,201 ratings — published 1600
Julius Caesar (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 221 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.54 — 15,908 ratings — published 1601
The Merchant of Venice (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 215 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.73 — 13,930 ratings — published 1600
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
Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 211 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,554 ratings — published 1623
As You Like It (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 149 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,542 ratings — published 1623
Antony and Cleopatra (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 117 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.56 — 4,321 ratings — published 1623
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
Henry V (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 104 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.87 — 4,976 ratings — published 1599
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 103 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,035 ratings — published 1597
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
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 91 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,290 ratings — published 1624
Measure for Measure (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 80 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.60 — 2,690 ratings — published 1604
Titus Andronicus (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 74 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,147 ratings — published 1594
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
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
Complete Works (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 54 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 0.0 — 1 rating — published 1864
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
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
Love Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 46 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,902 ratings — published 1600
Cymbeline (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 45 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.46 — 879 ratings — published 1623
Richard II (Oxford School Shakespeare Series)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,231 ratings — published 1595
Troilus and Cressida (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.34 — 858 ratings — published 1609
Coriolanus (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.30 — 838 ratings — published 1623
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 44 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.26 — 2,037 ratings — published 1609
The Merry Wives Of Windsor (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 41 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.49 — 1,029 ratings — published 1602
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
Pericles (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 27 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.39 — 616 ratings — published 1609
The Riverside Shakespeare (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 23 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.65 — 1,378 ratings — published 1973
Shakespeare: The World As Stage (Eminent Lives)
by Bill Bryson (shelved 23 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,925 ratings — published 2007
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by Harold Bloom (shelved 21 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.00 — 763 ratings — published 1998
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by Tom Stoppard (shelved 21 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,233 ratings — published 1967
Henry VIII (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 20 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.50 — 503 ratings — published 1623
Timon of Athens (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 20 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.22 — 357 ratings — published 1623
King John (Folger Shakespeare Library)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 19 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.20 — 328 ratings — published 1962
Hamlet: By William Shakespeare (Film Diary)
by Kenneth Branagh (shelved 15 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.14 — 864 ratings — published 1603
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
Henry VI, Part 2 (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 14 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.72 — 344 ratings — published 1594
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
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
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
Shakespeare After All (Paperback)
by Marjorie B. Garber (shelved 10 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.32 — 174 ratings — published 2004
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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