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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