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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of Shakespeare by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments In an easy-to-read format, the scene-by-scene key reveals the mythological, historical, and geographical roots of all of Shakespeare's plays and narrative poems while supplying the modern reader with the background and knowledge to understand and enjoy... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover 
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion by Stanley Wells Publisher Comments A comprehensive reference work on Shakespearean textual problems, setting forth the editorial principles of the Oxford Edition and providing a concise history of Shakespeare editing. Includes for each play, textual notes, press-variants, discussions of... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson Publisher Comments William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill... (read more) List Price $13.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Thousand Times More Fair: What Shakespeare's Plays Teach Us about Justice by Kenji Yoshino Publisher Comments Celebrated legal scholar Kenji Yoshino's first book, Covering, was acclaimed—from the New York Times Book Review to O, The Oprah Magazine to the American Lawyer—for its elegant prose, its good humor, and its brilliant insights into civil... (read more) Your price: $15.99 New - Trade Paper
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MS-Directing Shakespeare: Women Direct Shakespeare by Elizabeth Schafer Publisher Comments In this engaging and lively book, Elizabeth Shafer captures a sense of the creative world of women directing Shakespeare. She explores the works of such prestigious directors as Joan Littlewood, actress and director Dame Judi Dench, Gale Edwards, and... (read more) List Price $61.25 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language by Sister Miria Joseph Publisher Comments "Sister Miriam Joseph's "Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language" remains, after more than half a century, an immensely valuable aid to serious students of the greatest of all writers. The book manifests enormous learning and real wisdom in applying... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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Essential Shakespeare #17: The Essential Shakespeare by Ted Hughes Synopsis For that very specific and historically brief situation within the theater, Shakespeare invented a language that is somehow closer to the vital, expressive life of English, still, than anything set down since. The harder one looks at it the odder this... (read more) List Price $8.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Rome and Rhetoric: Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (Anthony Hecht Lectures in the Humanities) by Garry Wills Publisher Comments Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Hardcover
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Shakespeare Suppressed by Katherine Chiljan Publisher Comments Shakespeare biography; Shakespeare Authorship Question; Elizabethan... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bedford Companion To Shakespeare 2ND Edition by Russ Mcdonald Publisher Comments Providing a unique combination of well-written, up-to-date background information and intriguing selections from primary documents, The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare introduces students to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their... (read more) List Price $34.80 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Vol. 1 by Alexander Schmidt Publisher Comments Volume 1 of massive work by a leading Shakespeare scholar and lexicographer, a standard in the field, provides full definitions, locations, and shades of meaning in every word in Shakespeare's plays and poems. The 2 volumes contain more than 50,000 exact... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Shakespeare After All by Marjorie Garber Publisher Comments A brilliant and companionable tour through all thirty-eight plays, Shakespeare After All is the perfect introduction to the bard by one of the country's foremost authorities on his life and work. Drawing on her hugely popular lecture courses at Yale and... (read more) Your price: $22.00 New - Trade Paper
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt Publisher Comments Stephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Robert Shaughnessy Publisher Comments A collection of essays on Shakespeare's life and works in popular forms and media.... (read more) List Price $31.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Playing Shakespeare: An Actor's Guide (Methuen Paperback) by John Barton Publisher Comments Now in its first American edition, Playing Shakespeare is the premier guide to understanding and appreciating the mastery of the worlds greatest playwright. Together with Royal Shakespeare Company actors–among them Patrick Stewart, Judi Dench, Ian... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Shakespeare Guide by Emma Smith Publisher Comments Are you studying Shakespeare and looking for a handy summary of plots, characters and interpretations? Or are you a keen theatregoer wanting essential background on the Shakespeare plays you see on stage? Ideal for students and theatre enthusiasts alike,... (read more) Your price: $18.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World by Paul Collins Publisher Comments Shakespeare's First Folio, the first complete collection of his plays, was almost never printed. Its eventual publication went practically unnoticed, and many of the original 750 copies were gone before the turn of the eighteenth century. But a hundred... (read more) Your price: $15.00 New - Trade Paper
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No Fear Shakespeare: A Companion (Sparknotes) by Daniel O. Williams Publisher Comments Let's face it. Hearing people talk about Shakespeare can be pretty annoying. Particularly if you feel like you don't understand him. When people talk about which of Shakespeare's plays they like best, or what they thought of so-and-so's performance... (read more) Your price: $9.95 New - Trade Paper
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"Shakespeare" by Another Name: The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man Who Was Shakespeare by Mark Anderson Publisher Comments A triumph of literary detective work about the true author of the works of Shakespeare. William Shaksper of Stratford was an actor and entrepreneur who had little education, never left England, and apparently owned no books. In the centuries since... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Hardcover
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