Books:

Shakespeare’s Works

• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (RSC, Yale, Oxford, Norton, etc)

• Norton Facsimile of the First Folio

• Individual Shakespeare Editions:

  • International Shakespeare Center Santa Fe Readers Editions

  • Young Shakespeare Players RISARA Editions

  • Arden 3rd Series Editions

  • Norton Critical Editions

  • New Cambridge Shakespeare

  • Oxford University Press Editions

  • Pelican Editions

  • RSC Shakespeare Editions

Important Source Materials

• Ovid's Metamorphoses

• Thomas North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives

• Holinshed's Chronicles of England, Scotland, and Ireland 

Shakespeare Language Companions

• Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion - David and Ben Crystal

• Shakespeare Lexicons A-M & N-Z - Alexander Schmidt

• Oxford English Dictionary

• Shakespeare’s Use of the Arts of Language - Sister Miriam Joseph

Guides to playing Shakespeare

• Playing Shakespeare - John Barton

• The Actor & The Text - Cicely Berry

• Shakespeare on Toast - Ben Crystal

• An Actor's (& Intelligent Reader’s) Guide to the Language of Shakespeare - Richard DiPrima

• Thinking Shakespeare - Barry Edelstein

• Shakespeare’s Advice to the Players - Peter Hall

• Speaking Shakespeare - Patsy Rodenberg

• Speak the Speech! Shakespeare’s Monologues Illuminated - Rhona Silverbush & Sami Plotkin

• Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach

Biography, Social & Cultural History

• The Genius of Shakespeare - Jonathan Bate

• Soul of the Age: A Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare - Jonathan Bate

• How to Behave Badly in Elizabethan England - Ruth Goodman

• Tyrant - Stephen Greenblatt

• Will in the World - Stephen Greenblatt

• The Shakespeare Wars - Ron Rosenbaum

• Shakespeare and the Jews - James Shapiro

• 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare - James Shapiro

• 1606: The Year of Lear - James Shapiro

• Shakespeare in a Divided America - James Shapiro

• Shakespeare in Swahililand - Edward Wilson-Lee

Criticism

• Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human - Harold Bloom

• Shakespearean Tragedy- A. C. Bradley

• Shakespeare: The World as Stage - Bill Bryson

• Shakespeare After All - Marjorie Garber

• Shakespeare And Modern Culture - Marjorie Garber

• Shakespeare Our Contemporary - Jan Kott

• Women of Will - Tina Packer

• Reading Shakespeare’s Sonnets - Don Paterson

• Botanical Shakespeare - Gerit Quealy

• Shakespeare’s Universality - Kiernan Ryan

• Shakespeare’s English Kings - Peter Saccio

Theatre Practitioners on Shakespeare

• The Quality of Mercy - Peter Brook

• Living with Shakespeare - Edited by Susannah Carson

• Shakespeare on Stage - Edited by Julian Curry

• Modern Hamlets & Their Soliloquies - Mary Z. Maher

• Actors Talk about Shakespeare - Mary Z. Maher

• Oregon Shakespeare Festival Actors: Telling the Story - Mary Z. Maher & Alan Armstrong

• Year of the King - Antony Sher

• Brutus and Other Heroines: Playing Shakespeare’s Roles for Women - Harriet Walter

Lists & References

• A Source Book in Theatrical History - A. M. Nagler

• Shakespeare A to Z - Charles Boyce

• A Shakespeare Miscellany - David and Ben Crystal

• Essential Shakespeare Handbook - Leslie Dunton-Downer and Alan Riding

• The Shakespeare Book of Lists - Michael LoMonico

• The Shakespeare Papers - Dr. Robin P. Williams

Multimedia:

Apps

• Shakespeare Pro

Podcasts

• No Holds Bard

Websites

• iReadShakespeare - Robin Williams’ website with fantastic resources for reading groups

• Shakespeare’s Words - David Crystal and Ben Crystal’s Glossary online and additional very useful tools

• Internet Shakespeare Editions - Folio and Quarto editions plus a huge amount of supplementary materials

• Digital Theatre Plus - huge variety of filmed theatre productions including many Shakespeare productions

• Globe Player - access to filmed versions of the Globe Theatre Productions

Television

• Playing Shakespeare, John Barton and the RSC (1984)

• Slings and Arrows, written by Susan Coyne, Bob Martin, Mark McKinney (2003-2006)

• In Search of Shakespeare, hosted by Michael Wood (BBC Mini Series)

• Shakespeare Re-Told BBC series (2005)

• Shakespeare Plays BBC series (1978-1985)

• CBC Presents the Stratford Festival (2015-2025)

• Hamlet at Elsinore, directed by Phillip Saville, starring Christopher Plummer (1964)

• Shakespeare’s An Age of Kings, BBC Series, directed by Michael Hayes (1960)

• The Hollow Crown, BBC Series (2012) - Containing the tetralogy of Richard II, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, and Henry V

• The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses, BBC Series (2016) - Containing the tetralogy of Henry VI, Parts 1, 2, & 3, and Richard III

Film

• Acting Shakespeare with Ian McKellan (1982)

• Discovering Hamlet with Derek Jacobi & Kenneth Branagh (1990)

• Silent Shakespeare - collection of Shakespeare from the silent film era (2003)

• Complete Works of Shakespeare, Abridged by The Reduced Shakespeare Company (2003)

• All’s Well that Ends Well, directed by John Dove, starring Ellie Piercy (2012)

• As You Like It, directed by Paul Czinner, starring Elisabeth Bergner & Laurence Olivier (1936)

• As You Like It, directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Bryce Dallas Howard and David Oyelowo (2007)

• Coriolanus, directed by and starring Ralph Fiennes (2010)

• Hamlet, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier (1948)

• Hamlet, directed by John Gielgud, starring Richard Burton (1964)

• Hamlet, directed by Grigori Kozintsev, starring Innokenty Smoktunovsky (1964)

• Hamlet, directed by Kirk Browning, starring Kevin Kline (1990)

• Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, directed by Tom Stoppard, starring Tim Roth, Gary Oldman, & Richard Dreyfuss (1991)

• Hamlet, directed by and starring Ken Branagh (1996)

• Hamlet, directed by Gregory Doran, starring David Tennant (2009)

• Julius Caesar, directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, starring James Mason, John Gielgud & Marlon Brando (1953)

• Julius Caesar, directed by Gregory Doran, starring Paterson Joseph, Cyril Nri & Ray Fearson (2017)

• Julius Caesar, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, starring Harriet Walter & Jade Anouka (2019)

• Chimes at Midnight, directed by Orson Welles, starring Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, & John Gielgud (1966)

• Henry IV: Part I, directed by Dominic Dromgoole, starring Jamie Parker & Roger Alum (2010)

• Henry IV: Part II, directed by Dominic Dromgoole, starring Jamie Parker & Roger Alum (2010)

• Henry IV, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, starring Harriet Walter & Jade Anouka (2018)

• Henry V, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier (1946)

• Henry V, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh (1989)

• Henry V, directed by Dominic Dromgoole, starring Jamie Parker (2010)

• Richard II, directed by Gregory Doran, starring David Tennant (2013)

• Richard III, directed by and starring Laurence Olivier (1955)

• Richard III, directed by Richard Loncraine, starring Ian McKellan (1995)

• King Lear, directed by Grigori Kozintsev, starring Jüri Järvet (1971)

• King Lear, directed by Peter Brook, starring Paul Scofield (1971)

• The Dresser, (based on King Lear) directed by Peter Yates, starring Albert Finney (1983)

• Ran, (based on King Lear) directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Tatsuya Nakadai (1985)

• Love’s Labour’s Lost, directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh (2000)

• Throne of Blood, (based on Macbeth) directed by Akira Kurosawa, starring Toshiro Mifune & Isuzu Yamada (1957)

• Macbeth, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Ian McKellan & Judi Dench (1978)

• Macbeth, directed by Rupert Goold, starring Patrick Stewart (2009)

• Rahm (based on Measure for Measure) directed by Ahmed Jamal, starring Sanam Saeed, Sunil Shanker, Sajid Hasan and Nayyar Ejaz (2016)

• The Merchant of Venice, directed by Michael Radford, starring Al Pacino, Lynn Collins & Jeremy Irons (2004)

• A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Michael Hoffmann, starring Kevin Kline & Stanley Tucci (1999)

• Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson (1993)

• Othello, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Willard White, Imogen Stubbs, & Ian McKellan (1990)

• Othello, directed by Oliver Parker, starring Laurence Fishburne, Irene Jacob, & Kenneth Branagh

• Romeo and Juliet, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Leonard Whiting & Olivia Hussey

• Romeo + Juliet, directed by Baz Luhrmann, starring Leonardo DiCaprio & Claire Danes

• The Taming of the Shrew, directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton

• The Taming of the Shrew, directed by William Ball & Kirk Browning, starring Fredi Olster & Marc Singer (1976)

• The Tempest, directed by Julie Taymor, starring Helen Mirren & Djimon Hounsou (2010)

• The Tempest, directed by Phyllida Lloyd, starring Harriet Walter & Jade Anouka (2018)

• Titus, directed by Julie Taymor, starring Anthony Hopkins & Jessica Lange (2000)

• Twelfth Night, directed by Kenneth Branagh, starring Caroline Langrishe & Richard Briers (1988)

• Twelfth Night, directed by Trevor Nunn, starring Imogen Stubbs & Helena Bonham-Carter (1996)

• Twelfth Night, directed by Tim Carroll, starring Mark Rylance & Stephen Fry (2013)

• The Winter’s Tale, directed by Gregory Doran, starring Antony Sher & Estelle Kohler (1999)