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Savor Shakespeare's knack for colorful invective with Shakespeare's Insults: Educating Your Wit. For more bard essentials, see our list of glossaries, guides, companions, and compendiums.

Whether you are looking for your favorite play or want to read a new interpretation of the Bard’s work, our Shakespeare Store should help you find precisely what you’re looking for. Browse through our collection of various editions, reference, background reading and literary criticism, titles for youngsters just discovering Shakespeare, and even music and films of interest.

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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
Stephen Greenblatt
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Shakespeare Collections

Enjoy the immortal bard's full canon of plays in The Riverside Shakespeare, a gorgeous two-volume boxed set complete with detailed notes on the texts, 50 illustrations, and updated appendices, chronologies, and bibliographies.

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Shakespearean Contexts and Contemporaries

The Elizabethan Secret Services

More on the Elizabethan Age

Players: The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare

More literary criticism and contexts

Renaissance Drama by Women

More of Shakespeare's contemporaries

Shakespeare for Kids

Shakespeare's funny and dramatic tales appeal to kids too, and many of his plays have been adapated for children, including Romeo and Juliet. Check out this list of Shakespeare titles for kids.

Shakespeare for Actors

Even the most savvy actors will find something useful in Freeing Shakespeare's Voice: The Actor's Guide to Talking the Text. For more ways to interpret Shakespeare's plays for today's audiences, see our list of Shakespearean titles for actors.

Shakespeare on DVD

The sexy 1996 version of Romeo and Juliet, starring Claire Danes and Leonardo DiCaprio, is just one of many Shakespeare plays that have made it to the silver screen and are now available on DVD.