A selection of books about Shakespeare's life and work available at the University Library

Biography

Ackroyd, Peter. Shakespeare: The Biography. 1st ed. New York: Nan A. Talese, 2005.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. 1st ed. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004.

Shapiro, James S. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, 1599. 1st U.S. ed. New York: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.

Christianity

Battenhouse, Roy W. Shakespeare's Christian Dimension: An Anthology of Commentary. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994.

Carter, Thomas. Shakespeare and Holy Scripture, with the Version He used. New York: AMS Press, 1970.

Eaton, T. R. Shakespeare and the Bible: Showing how Much the Great Dramatist was Indebted to Holy Writ for His Profound Knowledge of Human Nature. New York: AMS Press, 1972.

Frye, Roland Mushat. Shakespeare and Christian Doctrine. Princeton , N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1963.

Lings, Martin. Shakespeare in the Light of Sacred Art. London: Allen & Unwin, 1966.

Selkirk, J. B. Bible Truths with Shakspearian Parallels. 6th ed. New York: AMS Press, 1974.

Chriticism

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead Books, 1998.

Garber, Marjorie B. Shakespeare After all. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004.

General Reference

Dobson, Michael, and Stanley W. Wells. The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.

Performance & Production

Barton, John, Royal Shakespeare Company, and London Weekend Television, ltd. Playing Shakespeare. London; Portsmouth, NH: Methuen Drama in association with Channel Four Television Co.; Distributed in the US by HEB, 1989.

Davies, Anthony, and Stanley W. Wells. Shakespeare and the Moving Image: The Plays on Film and Television. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Gielgud, John, and John Miller. Acting Shakespeare. 1st American ed. New York: Scribner ; Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.

Hall, Peter . Shakespeare's Advice to the Players. 1st TCG ed. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2003.

Linklater, Kristin. Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text. 1st ed. New York , NY: Theatre Communications Group, 1992.

Mahood, M. M. Playing Bit Parts in Shakespeare [Bit parts in Shakespeare's plays.]. London; New York: Routledge, 1998.