Shakespeare, William
Additional Reading > Shakespeare biography
The following are especially informative and up-to-date: S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Documentary Life (1975), and William Shakespeare: Records and Images (1981); Richard Dutton, William Shakespeare: A Literary Life (1989); Dennis Kay, Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era (1992); Stanley Wells, Shakespeare: A Life in Drama (1995, reissued 1997); and Park Honan, Shakespeare: A Life (1998).Contents of this article:
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·Introduction
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·Shakespeare the man
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·Shakespeare the poet and dramatist
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·Shakespeare's plays and poems
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·The early plays
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·The poems
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·Plays of the middle and late years
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·Shakespeare's sources
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·Understanding Shakespeare
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·Questions of authorship
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·Linguistic, historical, textual, and editorial problems
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·Literary criticism
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·Seventeenth century
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·Eighteenth century
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·Romantic critics
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·Twentieth century and beyond
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·Chronology of Shakespeare's plays
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·Additional Reading
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·Modern editions
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·Shakespeare biography
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·Shakespearean staging and acting companies
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·Censorship and governmental regulation
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·Critical studies
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·History of Shakespeare criticism
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·Criticism of Shakespearean characters
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·Historical criticism
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·New Criticism
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·Shakespeare's language and imagery
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·Psychological, archetypal, and mythological criticism
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·New Historicism, cultural materialism, Marxist criticism, and political theatre
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·Feminist criticism and gender studies
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·Post-structuralism and deconstruction
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·Broad-spectrum criticism: language, themes, thought
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·Shakespearean comedy
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·Shakespearean tragedy
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·Shakespearean history
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·Dramaturgy and Shakespeare in the theatre
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