Avenues for Further Learning

Companion Book for the Series

Barton, John. Playing Shakespeare: An Actor's Guide. New York: Anchor Books, 2001.

Biographies of Shakespeare

Ackroyd, Peter. Shakespeare: The Biography. New York: Anchor Books, 2006.

Bryson, Bill. Shakespeare: The World as Stage. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.

Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.

General Resources and Criticism

Bloom, Harold. Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York: Riverhead, 1998.

Frye, Northrop. Northrop Frye on Shakespeare. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.

Garber, Marjorie. Shakespeare After All. New York: Anchor Books, 2005.

Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare's Language. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2000.

Performing Shakespeare

Brine, Adrian, and Michael York. A Shakespearean Actor Prepares. Lyme, N.H.: Smith & Kraus, 2000.

Brockbank, Philip, ed. Players of Shakespeare 1: Essays in Shakespearean Performance by Twelve Players of the Royal Shakespeare Company. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Cohen, Robert. Acting in Shakespeare. 2nd ed. Hanover, N.H.: Smith & Kraus, 2005.

Hall, Peter. Shakespeare's Advice to the Players. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 2003.

Kaiser, Scott. Mastering Shakespeare: An Acting Class in Seven Scenes. New York: Allworth Press, 2003.

Rodenburg, Patsy. Speaking Shakespeare. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.

Smallwood, Robert, ed. Players of Shakespeare 5. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Tucker, Patrick. Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach. New York: Routledge, 2002.