Shakespeare

Shakespeare's plays, plus related works including analysis, commentary and criticism.

See also the shelf labeled shakespeariana and the lists tagged with shakespeare.
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By Any Other Name
Lady Macbeth
All's Well
Queen Macbeth
Enter Ghost
Twelfth Knight
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival
Thus With a Kiss I Die (Daughter of Montague, #2)
A Daughter of Fair Verona (Daughter of Montague, #1)
Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
A Bright Ray of Darkness
Fair Rosaline
The Hundred Loves of Juliet
The Eagle and the Hart: The Tragedy of Richard II and Henry IV
The Death I Gave Him
Hamlet
Romeo and Juliet
Macbeth
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Othello
King Lear
The Tempest
Much Ado About Nothing
Julius Caesar
Twelfth Night
The Merchant of Venice
The Taming of the Shrew
As You Like It
Richard III
Henry V
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. TolkienThe Celtic Twilight by W.B. YeatsSoul Music by Terry PratchettTaliesin by Stephen R. LawheadThe Dark Is Rising by Susan Cooper
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Titles from Macbeth
22 books — 21 voters
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Queer Shakespeare Retellings
29 books — 9 voters

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129 books — 48 voters
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Most influential books under 100 pages
254 books — 925 voters

John Milton
What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labor of an age in pilèd stones, Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-y-pointing pyramid? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name? ...more
John Milton, The Complete Poetry

William Shakespeare
To die, - To sleep, - To sleep! Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come, When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; ...more
William Shakespeare, Hamlet

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