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There are many books and articles dealing with all aspects of Shakespeare's life and works. The following list gives just a few of those which are relevant to this website. Most of these works have useful bibliographies.
For brief information on many aspects
of Shakespeare, in an alphabetical sequence of entries, see:
- The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, edited by Michael
Dobson and Stanley Wells (2001).
For the documentary evidence surrounding Shakespeare's life and
work, see:
- E. K. Chambers, William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and
Problems, 2 vols. (1930)
- S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary
Life. Revised edition (1987)
Recent editions of the complete works of Shakespeare include:
- The Riverside Shakespeare, edited
by G. Blakemore Evans (1997)
- William Shakespeare: The Complete Works, edited by
Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (1994)
Shakespeare's plays appear in many modern editions, described in:
- Ann Thompson, Which Shakespeare? A User's Guide to Editions
(1992)
Scholarly editions of Shakespeare's plays appear in the following
series:
- Arden Shakespeare
- New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Oxford Shakespeare
Works about Shakespeare's theatre include:
- E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. (1923)
- R. A. Foakes, Illustrations of the English stage 1580-1642
(1985)
- Andrew Gurr, Playgoing in Shakespeare's London, 3rd
edition (2004)
- Andrew Gurr, The Shakespearian Playing Companies
(1996)
- British Library/RSC, The Essential Shakespeare Live
(2005), double CD of celebrated RCS peformances. 137 mins. Available
from the British Library Bookshop
The printing and publishing of plays in Shakespeare's London are
dealt with by:
- A Companion to Shakespeare, edited by David Scott
Kastan (1999)
- Lukas Erne, Shakespeare as Literary Dramatist (2003)
- A New History of Early English Drama, edited by John
D. Cox and David Scott Kastan (1997)
The quarto and folio editions of Shakespeare's plays are described
in detail in:
- Henrietta Collins Bartlett and A. W. Pollard, A Census
of Shakespeare's Plays in Quarto. Revised and extended.
(1939)
- Peter W. M. Blayney, The First Folio of Shakespeare
(1991)
- W. W. Greg, A Bibliography of English Printed Drama to
the Restoration. 4 vols. (1939-1959)
- Charlton Hinman, The Printing and Proof-Reading of the
First Folio of Shakespeare. 2 vols. (1963)
- A. W. Pollard, Shakespeare Folios and Quartos: A Study
in the Bibliography of Shakespeare's Plays, 1594-1685 (1909)
- Anthony James West, The Shakespeare First Folio: the History
of the Book. 2 vols. (2001-2003)
The expert contributors recommend as further reading:
- Tori Haring-Smith, From Farce to Metadrama: a Stage History
of 'The Taming of the Shrew', 1594-1983 (1985)
- Elizabeth Schafer, Shakespeare in Production: The Taming
of the Shrew (2002)
- The Taming of A Shrew: the 1594 Quarto, edited by
Stephen Roy Miller (1998)
- The Taming of The Shrew, edited by Ann Thompson (1984)
- The Cambridge King Lear CD-ROM: Text and Performance Archive,
edited by Christie Carson and Jacky Bratton (2000)
- Michael Warren, 'The Diminution of Kent', in The Division
of the Kingdoms: Shakespeare's Two Versions of 'King Lear',
edited by Gary Taylor and Michael Warren (1983)
- Michael Warren, 'Quarto and Folio King Lear and the Interpretation
of Albany and Edgar', in Shakespeare: Pattern of Excelling
Nature, edited by David Bevington and Jay L. Halio (1978)
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