Most Read This Week In Shakespeare

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

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A Daughter of Fair Verona (Daughter of Montague, #1)

Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival

Thus With a Kiss I Die (Daughter of Montague, #2)

The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV

Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies: How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

The Bard and the Book: How the First Folio Saved the Plays of William Shakespeare from Oblivion

Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts

Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future

The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War

For the Love of the Bard (A Bard's Rest Romance, #1)

That Self-Same Metal (The Forge & Fracture Saga, #1)

She Speaks!: What Shakespeare's Women Might Have Said

Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption

Mad about Shakespeare: From Classroom to Theatre to Emergency Room

The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race

A Conspiratorial Courting (Romance Retold #2)

William Shakespeare's The Merry Rise of Skywalker: Star Wars Part the Ninth

Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times

The Dane of My Existence (A Bard's Rest Romance, #2)

North by Shakespeare: A Rogue Scholar's Quest for the Truth Behind the Bard's Work

Shakespeare's Sisters: How Women Wrote the Renaissance

Yorick and Bones: Friends by Any Other Name: The Second Graphic Novel About a Skeleton and His Dog Navigating Friendship for Kids (Ages 8-12)

My Shakespeare: A Director’s Journey through the First Folio

Literary Critters: William Shakesbear's Journey for Inspiration

Smile and Be a Villain (Goodnight Sweet Prince, #1)

William Shakespeare's Avengers: The Complete Works

Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity

Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare

Straight Acting: The Hidden Queer Lives of William Shakespeare

The Tragic Mind: Fear, Fate, and the Burden of Power

William Shakespeare's The Taming of the Clueless

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“ O serpent heart, hid with a flowering face! Did ever dragon keep so fair a cave? Beautiful tyrant! fiend angelical! Dove-feather'd raven! wolvish-ravening lamb! Despised substance of divinest show! Just opposite to what thou justly seem'st, A damned saint, an honourable villain! O nature, what hadst thou to do in hell; When thou didst bower the spirit of a fiend In mortal paradise of such sweet flesh? Was ever book containing such vile matter So fairly bound? O that deceit should dwell In such a ...more ”
― William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

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“ I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush... "To be, or not to be, that is the question. Weeelll.... More of A question really. Not THE question. Because, well, I mean, there are billions and billions of questions out there, and well, when I say billions, I mean, when you add in the answers, not just the questions, weeelll, you're looking at numbers tha ...more ”
― Neil Gaiman

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