Criticism
History of Criticism
Bate, Jonathan, Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)
—(ed.). The Romantics on Shakespeare (London: Penguin, 1992)
Bristol, Michael, Shakespeare’s America/America’s Shakespeare (London: Routledge, 1990)
Dunn, Esther Cloudman, Shakespeare in America (New York: Macmillan, 1939)
Eastman, Arthur M., A Short History of Shakespearean Criticism (New York: Random House, 1968)
Foakes, R.A., Hamlet versus Lear: Cultural Politics and Shakespeare’s Art (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Grady, Hugh, The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991)
Haines, C. M., Shakespeare in France: Criticism, Voltaire to Victor Hugo (London: for the Shakespeare Association by H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1925)
Halpern, Richard, Shakespeare Among the Moderns (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1997)
Hattaway, Michael, Boika Sokolova and Derek Roper (eds.), Shakespeare in the New Europe (Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1994)
Kolin, Philip C. (ed.), Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary (New York: Garland, 1991)
LeWinter, Oswald (ed.), Shakespeare in Europe (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970)
Pascal, R. (ed.), Shakespeare in Germany: 1740-1815 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1937)
Pechter, Edward, What Was Shakespeare? Renaissance Plays and Changing Critical Practice (Ithaca NY: Cornell University Press, 1995)
Stavisky, A. Y., Shakespeare and the Victorians: Roots of Modern Criticism (Norman OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1969)
Stříbrný, Zděnek, Shakespeare and Eastern Europe (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
Taylor, Michael, Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001)
Thompson, Ann, and Sasha Roberts (eds.), Women Reading Shakespeare, 1660-1900; An Anthology of Criticism (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997)
Vickers, Brian, Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1993)
—(ed.), Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage, 6 vols (London: Routledge, 1974-81)
Zhang, Xiao Yang, Shakespeare in China: A Comparative Study of Two Traditions and Cultures (London: Associated University Presses, 1996)
General
Alexander, Catherine M. S., and Stanley Wells (eds.), Shakespeare and Race (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000)
—Shakespeare and Sexuality (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Atkins, G. Douglas, and David M. Bergeron, Shakespeare and Deconstruction (New York: Peter Lang, 1988)
Berger, Harry, Imaginary Audition: Shakespeare on Stage and Page (Berkeley CA: University of California Press, 1989)
—Making Trifles of Terrors: Redistributing Complicities in Shakespeare, ed. Peter Erickson (Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1997)
Bristol, Michael D., Big-time Shakespeare (London: Routledge, 1996)
Cavell, Stanley, Disowning Knowledge in Six Plays of Shakespeare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, Coleridge’s Criticism of Shakespeare: A Selection, ed. R. A. Foakes (London: Athlone, 1989)
Danson, Lawrence, Shakespeare’s Dramatic Genres (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000)
De Grazia, Margreta, and Stanley Wells (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Desmet, Christy, Reading Shakespeare’s Characters: Rhetoric, Ethics, and Identity (Amherst MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992)
Dollimore, Jonathan, and Alan Sinfield (eds.), Political Shakespeare: Essays in Cultural Materialism, 2nd edn. (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1994)
Drakakis, John (ed.), Alternative Shakespeares I (London: Methuen, 1985)
Eagleton, Terry, William Shakespeare (Oxford: Blackwell, 1986)
Evans, Malcolm, Signifying Nothing: Truth’s True Contents in Shakespeare’s Text, 2nd edn. (Hemel Hempstead: Harvester Wheatsheaf, 1989)
Frye, Northrop, Northrop Frye on Shakespeare, ed. Robert Sandler (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1986)
Garber, Marjorie, Shakespeare’s Ghost Writers: Literature as Uncanny Causality (London: Methuen, 1987)
Gillies, John, Shakespeare and the Geography of Difference (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994)
Greenblatt, Stephen, Renaissance Self-fashioning: From More to Shakespeare (Chicago IL: University of Chicago Press, 1980)
—Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1988)
Hawkes, Terence, That Shakespeherian Rag: Essays on a Critical Process (London: Methuen, 1986)
—(ed.), Alternative Shakespeares 2 (London: Routledge, 1996)
Hazlitt, William, Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays, with an introduction by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, World’s Classics (London: Oxford University Press, 1952) (First published 1817)
Howard, Jean E., and Marion F. O’Connor (eds.), Shakespeare Reproduced: The Text in History and Ideology (London: Methuen, 1987)
Howard, Jean E., and Scott Cutler Shershow (eds.), Marxist Shakespeares (New York and London: Routledge, 2001)
Jardine, Lisa, Reading Shakespeare Historically (London: Routledge, 1996)
Johnson, Samuel, Samuel Johnson on Shakespeare, ed. with an introduction and notes by Henry Woudhuysen (London: Penguin, 1989)
Jones, Emrys, Scenic Form in Shakespeare (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971)
Kastan, David Scott, Shakespeare and the Shapes of Time (London: Macmillan, 1982)
Kernan, Alvin B., The Playwright as Magician: Shakespeare’s Image of the Poet in the English Public Theater (New Haven CT: Yale University Press, 1979)