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 Posted: Wed Feb 28, 2007 2:09 pm
I was wondering if you guys knew of any good books about Shakespeare or his plays. If you could let me know i'll make a list and head off to the book store ^_^
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Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 11:54 am
The best Shakespeare book by far I've just bought is called The Rough Guide to Shakespeare. It's absolutely fabulous!
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Posted: Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:49 pm
Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt. Excellently written, historically accurate, intruiging and personable. No wonder its a New York Times bestseller! biggrin
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Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:19 pm
I agree with Will in the World by Greenblatt. Other great books to check out are Shakespeare by Michael Wood, Shakespeare: The Evidence by Ian Wilson, The Age of Shakespeare by Frank Kermode, and A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599.
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Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 10:47 pm
I personally swear by these two books:
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare, by Isaac Asimov.
This is a wonderful book full of analysis of all of Shakespeare's plays as well as historical notes and explanation of some of the more obscure references.
Alexander Schmidt's Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary.
This is like a dictionary of all the words Shakespeare ever used in his plays. You can look up the word, and then find the play you found it in, and it will tell you what it means in that context.
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Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 9:59 am
"Shakspeare After All" by Marjorie Garber has been an AMAZING help! I'e done close to 20 research papers on Shakespeare and have used that in almost all of them!
If you ever get the notion to read Shakespeare fiction:
"Will" and "My Father Had a Daughter" by Grace Tiffany are really interesting books set in his time. "Will" is about his life: before and through marriage, time in London, etc. "My Father Had aDaughter" is from the POV of Judith after Hamnet's death.
"Interred With Their Bones" by Jennifer Lee Carrell is my favorite book at the moment. It's a contemporary mystery/suspense novel that mostly deals the plays (one in particular) and the controversy surrounding them. It does have a few snippets from Shakespeare's time that give insight to the rest of the novel.
All three of these read extremely well and the reader easily becomes immersed in these worlds and everything is SO very believable!
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Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2009 10:45 pm
"Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns" by Pauline Kiernan has a collection of fairly graphic "translations" of various passages of Shakespeare. Not for the faint of heart!
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