The Royal Shakespeare Company: Recommended Reading

Recommended Reading

There have been literally thousands of books and articles written on William Shakespeare and his works. Here are some of the latest—and best—ones:

Bate, Jonathan. THE GENIUS OF SHAKESPEARE. (New York: Oxford, 1998.)

Beauman, Sally. THE ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: A HISTORY OF TEN DECADES. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.)

Bloom, Harold. SHAKESPEARE: THE INVENTION OF THE HUMAN. (New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.)

Borges, Jorge Luis. “Everything and Nothing.” In LABYRINTHS, SELECTED STORIES AND OTHER WRITINGS. Ed. Donald Yates and James Irby. (New York: New Directions, 1964.)

Brook, Peter. THE EMPTY SPACE. (New York: Avon, 1969.)

Clemen, Wolfgang. SHAKESPEARE’S SOLILOQUIES, trans. C. S. Stokes. (London: Methuen, 1987.)

Johnson, Lemuel A. SHAKESPEARE IN AFRICA AND OTHER VENUES: IMPORT AND THE APPROPRIATION OF CULTURE. (Lawrenceville: Africa World Press, 1998.)

Jones, Eldred. OTHELLO’S COUNTRYMEN, THE AFRICAN IN ENGLISH RENAISSANCE DRAMA. (London: Oxford University Press, 1965.)

Kirsch, Arthur, ed. LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE BY W.H. AUDEN. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.)

Kott, Jan. SHAKESPEARE OUR CONTEMPORARY. (New York: Norton, 1974.)

Lamming, George. “Caliban Orders History.” In THE PLEASURE OF EXILE. (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1992.)

Loomba, Ania. “The Color of Patriarchy: Critical Difference, Cultural Difference, and Renaissance Drama.” In WOMEN ‘RACE,’ AND WRITING IN THE EARLY MODERN PERIOD. (London: Routledge, 1994.)

Mullaney, Steven. THE PLACE OF THE STAGE: LICENSE, PLAY AND POWER IN RENAISSANCE ENGLAND. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988. Reprinted in 1995 by the University of Michigan Press.)

Norwich, John Julius. SHAKESPEARE’S KINGS. (New York: Viking, 1999.)

Pugliatti, Paulo. SHAKESPEARE THE HISTORIAN. (New York: St. Martins, 1996.)

Rackin, Phyllis. STAGES OF HISTORY; SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLISH CHRONICLES. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1990.)

Rackin, Phyllis, and Jean Howard. ENGENDERING A NATION: A FEMINIST ACCOUNT OF SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLISH HISTORIES. (London: Routledge, 1997.)

Saccio, Peter. SHAKESPEARE’S ENGLISH KINGS: HISTORY, CHRONICLE, AND DRAMA, 2nd Ed. (Oxford: Oxford, University Press, 2000.)

Soyinka, Wole. “Shakespeare and the Living Dramatist.” IN ART, DIALOGUE, AND OUTRAGE: ESSAYS ON LITERATURE AND CULTURE. (Ibadan: New Horn Press, 1988.)

Traub, Valerie. DESIRE AND ANXIETY: CIRCULATIONS OF SEXUALITY IN SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA. (New York: Routledge, 1992.)

Recommended texts for Henry VI, parts 1,2,3, and Richard III

Arden Shakespeare Series
Penguin Editions