Shakespeare and theatre reading list
Adler, Stephen, Rough Magic: Making Theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company,Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press, 2001
Alexander, Catherine M.S., and Stanley Wells, eds., Shakespeare and Race, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000
Barton, John, Playing Shakespeare, London: Methuen, 1984
Bassnett, Susan, Shakespeare: The Elizabethan Plays, Basingstoke, Macmillan, 1993
Bate, Jonathan, and Russell Jackson, eds., Shakespeare: An Illustrated Stage History,Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996
Brown, John Russell, Shakespeare and the Theatrical Event, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2002
Brownjohn, Sandy, and Gareth Gwyn-Jones, Spotlight on Shakespeare: A Practical Approach, London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1992
Burton, S.H, Shakespeare’s Life and Stage, Edinburgh: Chambers, 1989
Cahn, Victor L., The Plays of Shakespeare: A Thematic Guide, London: Greenwood Press, 2001
Callaghan, Dympna, A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, Oxford, Blackwell, c2001
Chambers, Colin, Inside the Royal Shakespeare Company: Creativity and the Institution, New York: Routledge, 2004
Chambers, E.K., The Elizabethan Stage, 5 Vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923
Cook, Judith, Women in Shakespeare, London: Harrap, 1980
Crowl, Samuel, Shakespeare Observed: Studies in Performance on Stage and Screen, Athens: Ohio University Press, 1992
De Grazia, Margreta, and Stanley Wells, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001
Dessen, Alan C., Rescripting Shakespeare: The Text, the Director, and Modern Productions,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Dobson, Michael, general ed., The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2005
Dollimore, Jonathan, Radical Tragedy: Religion, Ideology and Power in the Drama of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries, 3rd edn.,Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004
Foulkes, Richard, Performing Shakespeare in the Age of Empire, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Greenblatt, Stephen, Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, London: Jonathan Cape, 2004
Gurr, Andrew, and, John Orrell, Rebuilding Shakespeare’s Globe, London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1989
Gurr, Andrew, The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004
Gurr, Andrew, The Shakespearian Stage 1574-1642, 3rd edn.,Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992
Gurr, Andrew, and Ichikawa,Mariko, Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000
Hatchuel, Sarah, Shakespeare: From Stage to Screen, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2004
Hattaway, Michael, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare's History Plays, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002
Holderness, Graham, Cultural Shakespeare: Essays in the Shakespeare Myth, Hatfield, University of Hertfordshire Press, 2001
Hoskins, Jim,The Dances of Shakespeare, London: Routledge, 2005
Hyland, Peter, An Introduction to Shakespeare: The Dramatist in His Context, Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996
Jackson, Russell, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2000
Kastan, David Scott, Shakespeare and the Book, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2001
Kennedy, Dennis, Looking at Shakespeare: A Visual History of Twentieth Century Performance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993
Kermode, Frank, The Age of Shakespeare, London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004
Laroque, Francois, Shakespeare, Court, Crowd and Playhouse, London: Thames & Hudson,1993
Lavender, Andy, Hamlet in Pieces: Shakespeare Reworked: Peter Brook, Robert Lepage, Robert Wilson, London: Nick Hern, 2001
McEachern, Claire Elizabeth, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Martineau, Jane, Shakespeare in Art, London, Merrell, 2003
Mason, Pamela, and Parsons, Keith, Shakespeare in Performance, London,Salamander Books, c2000
Murphy, Andrew, Shakespeare in Print: A History and Chronology of Shakespeare Publishing,Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
Orgel, StephenImagining, Shakespeare: A History of Texts and Visions, Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2003
Parsons, Keith, and Mason, Pamela, eds., Shakespeare in Performance, London, Salamander Books, 1995
Pitt, Angela, Shakespeare’s Women (Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 1981)
Rutter, Carol, Clamorous Voices: Shakespeare’s Women Today, London The Women’s Press, 1988
Shapiro, James S., 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, London, Faber, 2005
Slater, Ann Pasternak, Shakespeare the Director, Brighton: Harvester, 1982
Smith-Howard, Alycia, Studio Shakespeare: The Royal Shakespeare Company at the Other Place, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006
Stern, Tiffany, Making Shakespeare: From Stage to Page,London: Routledge, 2004
Stern, Tiffany, Rehearsal from Shakespeare to Sheridan, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2000
Thomson, Peter, Shakespeare’s Professional Career, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1999
Thomson, Peter, Shakespeare’s Theatre, 2nd edn.,London: Routledge, 1992
Wells, Stanley, Shakespeare For All Time, London: Macmillan, 2002
Wells, Stanley, Shakespeare: The Poet and His Plays, London: Methuen, 2001
Wells, Stanley, Shakespeare & Co.,London: Allen Lane, 2006
White, Paul Whitfield, and Westfall, Suzanne R., eds., Shakespeare and Theatrical Patronage in Early Modern England, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002
Wells, Stanley, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986
Wilders, John, New Prefaces to Shakespeare, Oxford, Basil Blackwood, 1988
Wood, Michael, In Search of Shakespeare, London: BBC, 2003
Worthen, W.B., Shakespeare and the Force of Modern Performance, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003
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