Recommended Shakespearean Resources
Below are some of our favorite books. We encourage you to find a local bookstore to support.
Shakespeare’s Words
By Ben and David Crystal
Once More Unto the Speech Dear Friends: Comedy, Tragedy, History
By Neil Freeman
All the Words on Stage
By Louis Scheeder
Thinking Shakespeare
By Barry Edelstein
The Actor and the Text
By Cicely Berry
The Shakespeare Treasury
By Catherine M. S. Alexander
Prefaces to Shakespeare
By Granville-Barker
Pronouncing Shakespeare’s Words
By Dale Coye
Asimov’s Guide to Shakespeare (Both Volumes)
By Issac Asimov
Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
By Harold Bloom
The Persuasive Actor
By Milan Dragicevich
Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary Parts 1 and 2
By Alexander Schmidt
Speaking Shakespeare
By Patsy Rodenburg
Shakespeare After All
By Marjorie Garber
The First Folio
(we like the Applause-but to each their own)
Women of Will
By Tina Packer
Freeing Shakespeare’s Voice
By Kristin Linklader
Shakespeare’s Schoolroom
By Lynn Enterline
Essential Shakespeare Handbook
By Leslie Dunton-Downer and Alan Riding
Shakespeare on Toast
By Ben Crystal
Contested Will
By James Shapiro
Rosalind
Edited by Harold Bloom
The Shakespeare Encyclopedia: The Complete Guide to the Man and His Works
Edited by A. Cousins
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
Edited by Stanley Wells and Michael Dobson
Playing Shakespeare
By John Barton
Will in the World
By Stephen Greenblatt