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The Best of Shakespeare: A Tedious Brief List of the Best Shakespeare Books Available (on Bookshop.org)

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June Book List: LGBTQ+ Pride Month VIEW LIST (9 BOOKS)
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Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity
Homosexuality in Renaissance England
The Roaring Girl
Shakespeare and Queer Representation
Queer Shakespeare: Desire and Sexuality
The Renaissance of Lesbianism in Early Modern England
Shakespeare and Queer Theory
Beautiful Keepsakes & Collector's Editions VIEW LIST (11 BOOKS)
The Sonnets and a Lover's Complaint
Tales from Shakespeare
The Cambridge Shakespeare Library 3 Volume Hardback Set: Shakespeare's Times, Texts and Stages; Shakespeare Criticism; Shakespeare Performance
A Midsummer-Night's Dream - Illustrated by Arthur Rackham: llustrated by Arthur Rackham
Shakespeare's Flowers in Stumpwork
Shakespeare's Complete Paragon
The First Folio of Shakespeare
Shakespeare Illustrated
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Love Sonnets of Shakespeare
Novels Inspired by Shakespeare VIEW LIST (61 BOOKS)
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Lucy Negro, Redux: The Bard, a Book, and a Ballet
Hag-Seed: William Shakespeare's the Tempest Retold: A Novel
New Boy: William Shakespeare's Othello Retold: A Novel
Vinegar Girl: William Shakespeare's the Taming of the Shrew Retold: A Novel
Dunbar: William Shakespeare's King Lear Retold: A Novel
The Gap of Time: William Shakespeare' the Winter's Tale Retold: A Novel
Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare's the Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel
Macbeth: William Shakespeare's Macbeth Retold: A Novel
The Mirror & the Light
The Shakespeare Stealer
Shakespeare's Scribe
Shakespeare's Spy
King of Shadows
Katherine of Aragon, the True Queen

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Plays Inspired by Shakespeare VIEW LIST (11 BOOKS)
American Moor
Gary: A Sequel to Titus Andronicus
Queen Margaret
A Man for All Seasons
William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)
Shakespeare in Love
Richard III
Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story
The Collected Plays of Paul Rudnick
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: (abridged) (revised) (Revised Actor's)
Fun with Shakespeare: Journals, Coloring, Games, Activities, & More VIEW LIST (45 BOOKS)
Color Me Shakespeare
Great Scenes from Shakespeare's Plays Coloring Book
William Shakespeare: An Adult Coloring Book
The Wars of the Roses Colouring Book
William Shakespeare's Coloring Book
Tales from Shakespeare: Coloring book
The Old Fashioned Shakespeare Colouring Book
Shakespeare Colouring Book
Great Characters from Shakespeare Paper Dolls
Romeo and Juliet Paper Dolls
The Shakespeare Timeline Wallbook: Unfold the Complete Plays of Shakespeare--One Theater, Thirty-Eight Dramas!
The Shakespeare Timeline Stickerbook: See All the Plays of Shakespeare Being Performed at Once in the Globe Theatre!
Pop-Up Shakespeare: Every Play and Poem in Pop-Up 3-D
The the World of Shakespeare: A 1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
Pocket Posh William Shakespeare: 100 Puzzles and Quizzes

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Shakespeare's Lifetime VIEW LIST (35 BOOKS)
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary)
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
Genius of Shakespeare
A Life of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare: A Life in Drama
William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction
Shakespeare at Work, 1592-1603: 1592-1603
Shakespeare: The Poet in His World
Who was William Shakespeare?
DK Eyewitness Books: Shakespeare: Explore the Life of History's Most Famous Playwright from His Elizabethan World
Shakespeare and Biography
Shakespeare and Biography
Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare: The World as Stage

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Essays and Books Examining the Canon VIEW LIST (63 BOOKS)
Shakespeare: Invention of the Human: The Invention of the Human
Shakespeare After All
Shakespeare's Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction
Twelfth Night: Critical Essays
Shakespeare And Comedy
Power in William Shakespeare's Macbeth
Shakespeare's History Plays
Notes to Shakespeare - Volume III
Shakespeare's Early Tragedies
Shakespeare: An Introduction: Ideas in Profile
Shakespeare, 'Othello' and Domestic Tragedy
At Home in Shakespeare's Tragedies
Aspects of Shakespeare's 'Problem Plays': Articles Reprinted from Shakespeare Survey
Prefaces to Shakespeare
Moment by Moment by Shakespeare (1985)

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History: Books about Medieval, Elizabethan, & Jacobean England, and Renaissance Europe VIEW LIST (68 BOOKS)
The Elizabethan World Picture
Henry VII and the Tudor Pretenders: Simnel, Warbeck, and Warwick
The House of Beaufort: The Bastard Line That Captured the Crown
The Peaceable and Prosperous Regiment of Blessed Queene Elisabeth: A Facsimile from Hollinshed's Chronicles (1587)
The Swerve: How the World Became Modern
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
The Wars of the Roses
Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama, 2nd Edition
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
The Wars of the Roses: The Fall of the Plantagenets and the Rise of the Tudors
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
Queens of the Crusades: England's Medieval Queens Book Two
The Princes in the Tower

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Daily Life VIEW LIST (31 BOOKS)
At Home: A Short History of Private Life
The Elizabethan World Picture: A Study of the Idea of Order in the Age of Shakespeare, Donne and Milton
Oration on the Dignity of Man
Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture
Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Education: How Shakespeare Learned to Write
How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education
Shakespeare's London 1613
Documents of Shakespeare's England
Being Elizabethan: Understanding Shakespeare's Neighbors
London's Triumph: Merchants, Adventurers, and Money in Shakespeare's City
England in the Age of Shakespeare
The Time Traveler's Guide to Elizabethan England
The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century
The Elizabethan Renaissance: The Life of the Society

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Biographies VIEW LIST (69 BOOKS)
The Plantagenets: The Warrior Kings and Queens Who Made England
The Women of the Cousins' War: The Duchess, the Queen, and the King's Mother
Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life
Elizabeth of York: A Tudor Queen and Her World
Queens of the Conquest: England's Medieval Queens Book One
Queens of the Crusades: England's Medieval Queens Book Two
Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Henry VIII: The King and His Court
Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
Mary Boleyn: The Mistress of Kings
The Children of Henry VIII
The Life of Elizabeth I
The Lady in the Tower: The Fall of Anne Boleyn
The Lost Tudor Princess: The Life of Lady Margaret Douglas

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