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While the World Wide Web is a good resource with which to start, the best work on Shakespeare remains in print. Below is a selected bibliography for visitors interested in knowing more about Shakespeare and his works. The majority of these works can still be found in libraries and bookstores; hyperlinked titles are books for sale at Amazon.com.

Andrews, John F. William Shakespeare: His World, His Work, His Influence. 3 vols. New York: Scribner, 1985.
Astington, John H. ed. The Development of Shakespeare's Theater. New York: AMS Press, 1992.
Barker, Deborah E., and Ivo Kamps, eds. Shakespeare and Gender: A History. New York: Verso, 1995.
Bates, Jonathon. The Genius of Shakespeare. London: Picador, 1997.
Bentley, G. E. Shakespeare: A Biographical Handbook. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1961.
Bentley, G. E. The Jacobean and Caroline Stage: Plays and Playwrights. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1956.
Bevington, David, ed. The Complete Works of Shakespeare—5th ed. New York: Longman, 2003.
Blake, N. F. Shakespeare's Language: An Introduction. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1983.
Booth, Stephen, ed. Shakespeare's Sonnets. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000.
Bristol, Michael D. Shakespeare's America, America's Shakespeare. Oxford: Routledge, 1990.
Carroll, William C. The Metamorphoses of Shakespearean Comedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1985.
Cercignani, Fausto Shakespeare's Works & Elizabethan Pronunciation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Chambers, E. K. The Elizabethan Stage. 4 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923.
Chambers, E. K. The Mediaeval Stage. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1903.
Chambers, E. K. Short Life of Shakespeare With the Sources. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1933.
Chambers, E. K. William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and Problems. 2 vols. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1930.
Coster, E. L. The Shakespeare Country. London, 1981.
Drakakis, John, ed. Alternative Shakespeares—2nd ed.. Oxford: Routledge, 2002.
Eagleton, Terry. William Shakespeare. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.
Eastman, Arthur M. A Short History of Shakespearean Criticism. New York: Random, 1968.
Eccles, Mark Shakespeare in Warwickshire. Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 1961.
Evans, G. Blakemore, ed. The Riverside Shakespeare. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974.
Felperin, Howard. Shakespearean Romance. Princeton: Princeton University Press , 1972.
Frye, Northrop. Fools of Time: Studies in Shakespearean Tragedy. Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1967.
Gassner, John and William Green, eds. Elizabethan Drama. New York: Bantam Books, 1967.
Goldman, Michael. Shakespeare and the Energies of Drama. Princeton: Princeton University Press: 1972.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Shakespearean Negotiations. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988.
Greenblatt, Stephen. Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 2004.
Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage 1524–1642—2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1980.
Holland, Norman, et al. eds. Shakespeare's Personality. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1989.
Honigmann, E. A. J. Shakespeare: The "Lost Years". Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985.
Houston, John Porter. Shakespearean Sentences: A Study in Style and Syntax. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1988.
Hyland, Peter. An Introduction to Shakespeare: The Dramatist in His Context. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
Jones, Emrys. Origins of Shakespeare. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1977.
Jorgens, Jack. Shakespeare on Film. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1977.
Kastan, David Scott, ed. A Companion to Shakespeare. Oxford: Blackwell, 1999.
Kay, Dennis. Shakespeare: His Life, Work, and Era. New York: W. Morrow, 1992.
Kay, Dennis. William Shakespeare: His Life and Times. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.
Kermode, Frank. Shakespeare's Language. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2000.
Lamb, Charles and Mary Lamb. Lambs' Tales from Shakespeare. New York: Children's Classics, 1999.
Lenz, Carolyn, ed. The Woman's Part: Feminist Criticism of Shakespeare. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1980.
Mack, Maynard. Everybody's Shakespeare. Lincoln: Univ. of Nebraska Press, 1993.
Muir, Kenneth. The Sources of Shakespeare's Plays. London: Methuen, 1977.
Ogburn, Charlton. The Mysterious William Shakespeare. New York: Dodd, Mead, 1984.
Patterson, Annabel. Shakespeare and the Popular Voice. Oxford: Blackwell, 1989.
Rowse, A. L. William Shakespeare: A Biography. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
Schoenbaum, Sam. Shakespeare: His Life, His English, His Theatre. New York: Signet Classics, 1990.
Schoenbaum, Sam. Shakespeare's Lives. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1970.
Schoenbaum, Sam. William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988.
Schoenbaum, Sam. William Shakespeare: Records and Images. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Snyder, Susan. The Comic Matrix of Shakespeare's Tragedies. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1979.
Styan, J. L. Shakespeare's Stagecraft. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1967.
Tennenhouse, Leonard. Power on Display. Oxford: Routledge, 2005.
Wells, Stanley, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Wilson, Ian. Shakespeare: The Evidence. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
Young, David. The Action to the Word. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.

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