 | The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works by William Shakespeare
Buy new: £25.21 / Used from: £19.01 You definitely need one of these and this is the best and more than worth the price over any cheaper edition.
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 | Shakespeare: The World as a Stage (Eminent Lives) by Bill Bryson
Buy new: £10.49 / Used from: £0.01 Short and succinct, informative and witty. Not essential but a good introductory biography.
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 | 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
Buy new: £6.10 / Used from: £0.38 Excellent; very readable and enjoyable. Contains a brilliant analysis on the four plays written that year and heaps of political and cultural background.
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 | Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story by Stanley Wells
Buy new: £5.80 / Used from: £3.60 The wider dramatic context. Long chapters but readable and informative.
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 | Shakespeare: The Basics by Sean McEvoy
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £7.00 Great introduction especially for the academic but will give anyone a more profound understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare.
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 | The Cultural Identity of Seventeenth Century Woman: A Reader by N.H. Keeble
Buy new: £20.89 / Used from: £9.74 Great background to the difficult and thorny issue of women's place in 17th century society.
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