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Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4818 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,046,809 ratings — published 1601
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4786 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,814,852 ratings — published 1590
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 4645 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,016,660 ratings — published 1623
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3893 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.94 — 577,299 ratings — published 1595
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3437 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.89 — 435,676 ratings — published 1603
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2928 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.91 — 236,963 ratings — published 1605
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2870 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.78 — 226,807 ratings — published 1611
Much Ado About Nothing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2767 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.06 — 258,122 ratings — published 1598
Twelfth Night (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2633 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.96 — 194,162 ratings — published 1623
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2632 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.71 — 218,908 ratings — published 1599
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2533 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.77 — 202,412 ratings — published 1596
The Taming of the Shrew (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2259 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.74 — 180,308 ratings — published 1593
As You Like It (Paperback)
by (shelved 1919 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.81 — 88,795 ratings — published 1599
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 1640 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,368 ratings — published 1593
Henry V (Paperback)
by (shelved 1577 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.85 — 53,070 ratings — published 1599
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1495 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.71 — 43,707 ratings — published 1606
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 1415 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.71 — 36,541 ratings — published 1623
King Henry IV, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1304 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.80 — 33,233 ratings — published 1597
The Comedy of Errors (Paperback)
by (shelved 1268 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.72 — 34,382 ratings — published 1594
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1226 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.67 — 34,285 ratings — published 1594
Measure for Measure (Paperback)
by (shelved 1207 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.67 — 31,209 ratings — published 1604
Richard II (Paperback)
by (shelved 1178 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,830 ratings — published 1595
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 989 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.25 — 112,283 ratings — published 1609
Coriolanus (Paperback)
by (shelved 976 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.72 — 19,408 ratings — published 1608
Henry IV, Part Two (Paperback)
by (shelved 950 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.77 — 21,221 ratings — published 1598
All's Well That Ends Well (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 923 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.60 — 20,002 ratings — published 1604
Love's Labour's Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 899 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.52 — 15,935 ratings — published 1598
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 886 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.39 — 17,201 ratings — published 1594
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Paperback)
by (shelved 794 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.55 — 14,459 ratings — published 1597
Troilus and Cressida (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 775 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,546 ratings — published 1601
Cymbeline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 756 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.60 — 11,869 ratings — published 1610
Henry VI, Part 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 671 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.54 — 9,705 ratings — published 1592
Pericles (Paperback)
by (shelved 630 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.45 — 9,014 ratings — published 1608
King Henry VI, Part 2 (Paperback)
by (shelved 628 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.61 — 8,279 ratings — published 1591
King John (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 618 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.35 — 7,974 ratings — published 1981
King Henry VI, Part 3 (Paperback)
by (shelved 602 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.71 — 7,854 ratings — published 1592
Henry VIII (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 590 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.49 — 9,768 ratings — published 1613
Timon of Athens (Paperback)
by (shelved 546 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.45 — 7,831 ratings — published 1605
The Complete Works (Leather Bound)
by (shelved 430 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.48 — 57,640 ratings — published 1623
Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Paperback)
by (shelved 413 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.82 — 48,826 ratings — published 2007
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Paperback)
by (shelved 370 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.88 — 10,806 ratings — published 2004
Hamnet (Hardcover)
by (shelved 335 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.19 — 356,188 ratings — published 2020
The Two Noble Kinsmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.40 — 2,653 ratings — published 1614
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (Paperback)
by (shelved 233 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,349 ratings — published 2005
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 232 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.09 — 407,453 ratings — published 2017
Hag-Seed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.79 — 40,325 ratings — published 2016
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 223 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,692 ratings — published 1998
Venus and Adonis (Paperback)
by (shelved 220 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 3.65 — 3,749 ratings — published 1592
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 211 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.04 — 92,938 ratings — published 1967
Shakespeare After All (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as shakespeare)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,100 ratings — published 2004
“Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
― Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
― Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
“These violent delights have violent ends
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― Romeo and Juliet
And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey
Is loathsome in his own deliciousness
And in the taste confounds the appetite.
Therefore love moderately; long love doth so;
Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.”
― Romeo and Juliet












