Why Shakespeare?
Shakespeare, we have been told, is extremely important. You may agree or disagree, but do you know why he matters to so many people? This book invites Shakespeare lovers and haters alike to consider the question of his popularity by looking into the relationship between his methods of artistic creation and the values of the modern world.
Blending statistics and storytelling, Why Shakespeare? tracks the playwright’s afterlives throughout time, around the world, across the academic disciplines, into new artistic forms from painting and music to film and social media, from colonizers and NAZIs to civil rights movements and prison theater, and in light of identity categories such as gender, race, sexuality, class, religion, disability, and the intersections among them. This exploration reveals, surprisingly, that Shakespeare’s popularity grows less from the literary quality of his texts, and more from the depth and variety of problems—textual, thematic, and ethical—in them.
Publications
Sort
Overview
As of June 2020, the MLA International Bibliography contains 50,021 items about Shakespeare, who is nearly four times more popular than Joyce, followed in order by Dante, Goethe, Chaucer, Milton, Dickens, Cervantes, James, Faulkner, Woolf, and the rest.
Top 20 Authors in the MLA International Bibliography (By Number of Items)
Everyone thought England’s national author would be Milton—including Milton himself. Google’s Ngram Viewer suggests that Milton was more popular than Shakespeare up to the 1790s. Shakespeare’s popularity had peaks in the 1890s and 1950s, then took a downward turn. Rebounding in the 1980s, his reach is now as wide as ever. “Shakespeare has become a global icon,” Jonathan Bate wrote as the world celebrated the 450th birthday in 2014.
Google Ngram for John Milton and William Shakespeare (With Variant Spellings)
Why Shakespeare? Empire often seeks out a literary figurehead, of course, usually the author of a mythic epic about the culture’s foundation. Greece had its Homer, Rome its Virgil, and the Holy Roman Empire its Dante. Henry VIII declaring England an empire in 1533 launched a debate about who would be its literary icon. England eventually opted not for an epic poet like Chaucer, Spenser, or Milton but for the dramatist Shakespeare. Why?
Our answer must be able to explain the eighteenth-century surge in Shakespeare’s popularity, and its resurgence since the 1980s. We must ask Why was Shakespeare chosen as England’s national treasure? but also Why is Shakespeare the only author mentioned by name as required reading in the US Common Core State Standards Initiative? as well as Why are there so many global Shakespearean adaptations in cultures with no love for Great Britain? Why was Shakespeare a darling of German philosophers like Hegel, Marx, and Nietzsche? Why so many modern Shakespearean offshoots? Why so much appropriation, both literary and commercial? Why does Hollywood love Romeo and Juliet? Why the pilgrimages to Shakespeare’s birthplace? Why so many texts that aren’t Shakespeare called “Shakespearean”? Why were the opening ceremonies of the 2012 London Olympics based on The Tempest? Why do 50 percent of schoolchildren across the world study Shakespeare? Why did UNESCO grant documents about Shakespeare’s life the same status as the Magna Carta and Gutenberg Bible? Why does Shakespeare matter so much to so many people? Why Shakespeare?
This book neither celebrates nor attacks Shakespeare. It tells the stories of those who have, offering descriptive—not normative—answers to questions about the creation of cultural value. Shakespeare lovers and haters alike are invited to consider the question of his popularity by looking into the relationship between his methods of artistic creation and the assumptions, motives, and commitments of the modern world. This interdisciplinary method brings literary studies together with sociology: quantitative statistics identify Shakespeare’s manifestations through the ages, across the disciplines, and around the world—meaning there are lots of charts—and qualitative cultural theory helps explain them.
This approach shows that Shakespeare is popular not because his texts are better than others’, but because they’re more problematic. Textually, thematically, and ethically, they are rife with difficult questions that attract massive attention. Most especially, in proclaiming freedom of interpretation to audiences while perpetuating structural social inequalities, Shakespeare’s dramatic method artistically enacts the qualities of English liberalism—both its virtues and vices. That’s why modern England chose Shakespeare as its cultural figurehead, and why Shakespeare and liberalism manifest similar controversies today.
Where previous surveys of Shakespeare’s afterlives have centered English theater, this one is global, inclusive, and multi-disciplinary. It starts with stories of Shakespeare deciphering market demand for English history plays, international performances during his own lifetime, and proto-feminist adaptations from his peers. His popularity declined in the Restoration—a poet of disorder during an age of order—and queer sexuality was edited out of the Sonnets in the eighteenth century. His works received so many eighteenth-century editions, not because they were loved, but because they had so many holes.
Shakespeare fills painting, music, ballet, and opera—non-linguistic fine arts relying on his well-known narratives. Then comes Abraham Lincoln identifying with Macbeth, and the politics of class in the “Shakespeare authorship controversy.” And his penchant for irony, granting audiences freedom of interpretation, felt like living in the ideal nation-state to the political liberals of the Romantic Age.
There’s Tolstoy’s Shakes-hate, and authors from colonized lands speaking back to Shakespeare, with fire. Latin American Tempests, Nazi stages, Mexican cinema, and Czechoslovakian dissidence. Science fiction and Shakespeare in the Park. Dueling politicizations of Hamlet in Indonesia, and different denominations of Christianity claiming Shakespeare. Julius Caesar in Sierra Leone. Lines to buy The Merchant of Venice in China after the death of Mao. Samurai Macbeth. Romeo and Juliet through Indian endogamy.
Several stories are theorized. There is “adaptation refraction,” referring to the new spins on old stories in both Shakespeare’s texts and their modern offshoots. “Strategic bardolatry” is Shakespeare-worship as a Machiavellian rhetorical maneuver. The “Shakespearean slingshot” grows from his role in the early years of new forms of American drama—film and musical—which leveraged his prominence to build their artforms, though soon Shakespeare was exploiting their cultural momentum to gain currency himself.
Shakespeare has been a Trojan Horse for subversiveness in schools and prisons. He appears in foundational documents across the disciplines—from philosophy and psychology to anthropology and women’s studies. “Shakespeare” is now its own discipline. He shows up in grade schools and retirement homes. There are sign-language performances, and Richard III in wheel chairs. Love’s Labor’s Lost stirred controversy in Afghanistan, and Henry IV, Part 1 has been used in therapy for veterans with PTSD. Video games, Twitter adaptations, recent novels, Shakespeare tourism, and climate activism. Game of Thrones, the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Zoom performances during coronavirus lockdown, trans readings of Shakespearean cross-dressings, and Measure for Measure played by Black women in a North Brooklyn gymnasium as protests against police violence rise up across town.
Ackerman, Zeno, and Sabine Schülting. Precarious Figurations: Shylock on the German Stage, 1920-2010. Berlin: de Gruyter, 2019.
Adams, Brandi Kristine. “Mediators of the Wor(l)d: Editors, Shakespeare, and Inclusion.” Before Shakespeare (June 3, 2019).
Aebischer, Pascale. Shakespeare, Spectatorship and the Technologies of Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020.
Ahsan, Nazmul. Shakespeare Translations in Nineteenth Century Bengali Theatre. Dhaka: Bangla Academy, 1995.
Akhimie, Patricia. “Strange Episodes: Race in Stage History.” Shakespeare Bulletin 27.3 (2009): 363-76.
Akhtar, Samina. “Some Adaptations of Shakespeare in Pakistan.” Shakespeare and Asia, ed. Jonathan Locke Hart (London: Routledge, 2019): 190-200.
American Council of Trustees and Alumni. The Unkindest Cut: Shakespeare in Exile (2015): files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED560917.pdf.
Armitage, David. “Literature and Empire.” The Oxford History of the British Empire, ed. William Roger Louis, Vol. 1,The Origins of Empire, ed. Nicholas Canny (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998): 99-123.
Anderegg, Michael A. Lincoln and Shakespeare. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2015.
Awad, Yousef. “Bringing Lebanon's Civil War Home to Anglophone Literature: Alameddine's Appropriation of Shakespeare's Tragedies.” Critical Survey 28.3 (2016): 86-101.
Awan, Imran, and Islam Issa. “Certainly the Muslim is the very devil incarnation': Islamophobia and The Merchant of Venice.” Muslim World 108.3 (2018): 367-86.
Axline, Kimberly L. “A ‘new deal’ and a New Direction: Welles’ and Houseman's Depression-Era Productions of Macbeth, Doctor Faustus, and Julius Caesar.” Theatre Studies 45 (2001): 16-49.
Barclay, Bill, David Lindley, eds. Shakespeare, Music, and Performance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Barnden, Sally, and Nora J. Williams. Shakespeare and Politics Between Media. Special issue of Borrowers & Lenders13.1 (2020).
Bassi, Shaul. Shakespeare's Italy and Italy's Shakespeare: Place, "Race," Politics. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Bate, Jonathan. Shakespeare and the English Romantic Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Bate, Jonathan. Shakespearean Constitutions: Politics, Theatre, Criticism, 1730–1830. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Bate, Jonathan. The Genius of Shakespeare. London: Picador, 1997.
Bate, Jonathan. “Shakespeare’s 450th Birthday: Now All the World Is His Stage.” Telegraph (April 20, 2014).
Bates, Jennifer Ann, and Richard Wilson, eds. Shakespeare and Continental Philosophy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014.
Bayer, Mark. “Henry Norman Hudson and the Origins of American Shakespeare Studies.” Shakespeare Quarterly 68.3 (2017): 271-95.
Belsey, Catherine. Why Shakespeare? New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Bennett, Susan; Carson, Christie, eds. Shakespeare beyond English: A Global Experiment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Bevington, David. Murder Most Foul: Hamlet through the Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011
Beyad, Maryam; Salami, Ali, eds. Culture-Blind Shakespeare: Multiculturalism and Diversity. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2016.
Blackwell, Anna. Shakespearean Celebrity in the Digital Age: Fan Cultures and Remediation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Blank, Daniel. "‘Our Fellow Shakespeare’: A Contemporary Classic in the Early Modern University." The Review of English Studies (2020): hgz146.
Bloom, Gina. “Videogame Shakespeare: Enskilling Audiences through Theater-Making Games.” Shakespeare Studies43.1 (2015): 114-27.
Bloom, Harold. “Shakespeare, Center of the Canon.” The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1994.
Bloom, Harold. "Shakespeare's Universalism." Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human. New York, NY: Riverhead Books, 1998. 1-20.
Boguszak, Jakub. “The Poetics of Shakespearean Animation.” Shakespeare Bulletin 32.2 (2014): 159-83.
Boller, Paul F., Jr. “The American Presidents and Shakespeare.” White House History 30 (2011): 34-59.
Boose, Lynda E. and Richard Burt, eds. Shakespeare, the Movie: Popularizing the Plays on Film, TV, and Video. London: Routledge, 1997.
Bourne, Craig, and Emily Caddick Bourne, ed. The Routledge Companion to Shakespeare and Philosophy. London: Routledge, 2019.
Bradbury, Jill. “ProTactile Shakespeare: Inclusive Theater by/for the DeafBlind.” Shakespeare Studies 47 (2019).
Bretzius, Stephen. Shakespeare in Theory: The Postmodern Academy and the Early Modern Theater. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997.
Bristol, Michael D. Big-Time Shakespeare. New York, NY: Routledge, 1996.
Brown, David Sterling. "(Early) Modern Literature: Crossing the Color-Line." Radical Teacher 105 (2016): 69-77.
Brusberg-Kiermeier, Stefani, and Jörg Helbig, eds. Sh@kespeare in the Media: From the Globe Theatre to the World Wide Web. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2004.
Buchanan, Judith. Shakespeare on Film. Harlow: Pearson Longman, 2005
Buchanan, Judith. Shakespeare on Silent Film: An Excellent Dumb Discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Burnett, Mark Thornton, Adrian Streete, and Ramona Wray, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Shakespeare and the Arts. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011.
Burton, Jonathan. “Shakespeare in Liberal Arts Education.” The Rock: Whittier College Magazine (Fall, 2013): 42-6.
Burwick, Frederick. “Coleridge on Shakespeare, Goethe, and Schiller.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 141 (2005): 70-80.
Cahill, Patricia A., and Kim Hall, eds. Shakespeare and Black America. Special issue of Journal of American Studies 54.1 (2020).
Caines, Michael. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013
Calbi, Maurizio, and Stephen O'Neill, eds. #SocialmediaShakespeares. Special issue of Borrowers and Lenders 10.1 (2016).
Callaghan, Dympna C. “Representing Cleopatra in the Post-Colonial Moment.” Antony and Cleopatra, ed. Nigel Wood and Barbara Joan Baines (Buckingham: Open University Press, 1996): 40-65.
Calvo, Clara, and Coppélia Kahn, eds. Celebrating Shakespeare: Commemoration and Cultural Memory. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Camus, Cyril. “Calibans for the 1990s and 2000s: Shakespeare and Fantasy in the Age of 'Professional Fan Fiction' and Integrative Fiction.” Caliban 52 (2014): 109-24.
Cano, Marina, and Rosa García-Periago, eds. Jane Austen and William Shakespeare: A Love Affair in Literature, Film and Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Cerdá, Juan F., Dirk Delabastita, and Keith Gregor, eds. Romeo and Juliet in European Culture. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2017.
Chaudhuri, Sukanta, and Chee Seng Lim, eds. Shakespeare without English: The Reception of Shakespeare in Non-anglophone Countries. Patparganj: Pearson Longman, 2006.
Chedgzoy, Kate. Shakespeare's Queer Children: Sexual Politics and Contemporary Culture. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1995.
Chedgzoy, Kate, Susanne Greenhalgh, Robert Shaughnessy, eds. Shakespeare and Childhood. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Cianci, Giovanni, and Caroline Patey, eds. Will the Modernist: Shakespeare and the European Historical Avant-Gardes. New York: Peter Lang, 2014.
Cieślak, Magdalena. Screening Gender in Shakespeare's Comedies: Film and Television Adaptations in the Twenty-First Century. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2019.
Cliff, Nigel. The Shakespeare Riots: Revenge, Drama, and Death in Nineteenth-Century America. New York: Random House, 2007.
Cohn, Ruby. Modern Shakespeare Offshoots. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976.
Connell, Philip. “Death and the Author: Westminster Abbey and the Meanings of the Literary Monument.” Eighteenth-Century Studies 38 (2005): 557-85.
Corcoran, Neil. Shakespeare and the Modern Poet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Cornfeld, Li, Victoria Simon, and Jonathan Sterne. “Legitimating Media: Shakespeare's Awkward Travels through Video Games and Twitter.” Communication, Culture, and Critique 11.3 (2018): 418-35.
Courtney, Krystyna Kujawińska, and John M. Mercer, eds. The Globalization of Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century. Lewiston: Mellen, 2003.
Croall, Jonathan. Performing Hamlet: Actors in the Modern Age. London: The Arden Shakespeare, 2018.
Dadabhoy, Ambereen. “The Moor of America: Aproaching the Crisis of Race and Religion in the Renaissance and the Twenty-First Century.” Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters, ed. Karina Feliciano Attar and Lynn Shutters (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014): 123-40.
Dahiya, Hema. Shakespeare Studies in Colonial Bengal: The Early Phase. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2013
Das, Arindam. “The Australian Shakespeare: The Nation in Evolvement from Bardolatory to Appropriation.” Shakespeare: A Reappraisal, ed. Sunita Sinha and Carole Rozzonelli (New Delhi: Atlantic, 2015): 181-91.
Dávidházi, Peter. The Romantic Cult of Shakespeare: Literary Reception in Anthropological Perspective. New York: Macmillan, 1998.
De Grazia, Margreta. Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790s Apparatus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Della Gatta, Carla. “From West Side Story to Hamlet, Prince of Cuba: Shakespeare and Latinidad in the United States.” Shakespeare Studies 44 (2016): 151-56.
Demeter, Jason M. “‘This is a Theatre of Assault’: Amiri Baraka's Dutchman and a Civil Rights Othello.” Selected Papers of the Ohio Valley Shakespeare Conference 1 (2009).
Depledge, Emma. Shakespeare’s Rise to Cultural Prominence: Politics, Print and Alteration, 1642-1700. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Depledge, Emma, and Peter Kirwan, eds. Canonising Shakespeare: Stationers and the Book Trade, 1640–1740. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Desmet, Christy, Sujata Iyengar, and Miriam Jacobson, eds. The Routledge Handbook of Shakespeare and Global Appropriation. New York: Routledge, 2019.
Desmet, Christy, Natalie Loper, and Jim Casey, eds. Shakespeare/Not Shakespeare. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Desmet, Christy, and Robert O. Sawyer, eds. Shakespeare and Appropriation. New York: Routledge, 1999.
Dionne, Craig, and Parmita Kapadia, eds. Native Shakespeares: Indigenous Appropriations on a Global Stage. New York: Ashgate, 2008.
Dionne, Craig, and Parmita Kapadia, eds. Bollywood Shakespeares. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Distiller, Natasha. Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On Post-Apartheid South African Culture. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2012
Dobson, Michael. The Making of the National Poet: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Authorship, 1660—1369. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.
Doty, Jeffrey S. Shakespeare, Popularity and the Public Sphere. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Dromgoole, Dominic. Hamlet Globe to Globe: Two Years, 190,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play. New York: Grove Press, 2017.
Dugas, Don-John. Marketing the Bard: Shakespeare in Performance and Print, 1660-1740. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.
Dugas, Don-John. Shakespeare for Everyman: Ben Greet in Early Twentieth-Century America. London: Society for Theatre Research, 2016.
Egan, Gabriel. The Struggle for Shakespeare's Text: Twentieth-Century Editorial Theory and Practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Erne, Lukas. Shakespeare and the Book Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Erne, Lukas, and Margaret Jane Kidnie, eds. Textual Performances: The Modern Reproduction of Shakespeare's Drama. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Espinosa, Ruben. “Diversifying Shakespeare.” Literature Compass 13.2 (2016).
Estill, Laura. “Digital Humanities’ Shakespeare Problem.” Humanities 8.1 (2019): 45.
Estill, Laura. “Shakespeare and Disciplinarity.” The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture, ed. Valerie M. Fazel and Louise Geddes. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017).
Estill, Laura, Dominic Klyve, and Kate Bridal, ‘“Spare your arithmetic, never count the turns”: A Statistical Analysis of Writing about Shakespeare, 1960–2010,” Shakespeare Quarterly 66.1 (2015): 1-28
Estrin, Barbara L. Shakespeare and Contemporary Fiction: Theorizing Foundling and Lyric Plots. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2012.
Fayard, Nicole. The Performance of Shakespeare in France since the Second World War: Re-Imagining Shakespeare. Lewiston: Mellen, 2006.
Fazel, Valerie, and Louise Geddes. “'Give me your hands if we be friends': Collaborative Authority in Shakespeare Fan Fiction.” Shakespeare 12.3 (2016): 274-86.
Fazel, Valerie M., and Louise Geddes, eds. The Shakespeare User: Critical and Creative Appropriations in a Networked Culture. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Ferguson, Ailsa Grant. “When wasteful war shall statues overturn': Forgetting the Shakespeare Hut.” Shakespeare 10.3 (2014): 276-92.
Fernie, Ewan. “‘Freetown!’: Shakespeare and Social Flourishing.” Shakespeare Survey 68 (2015): 306–22.
Fernie, Ewan. Modernity Unbound: Birmingham, Shakespeare, and the French Revolutions. Shakespeare désenchaîné [Shakespeare Unbound], ed. Anne-Valérie Dulac and Laetitia Sansonetti (Paris: Société Française Shakespeare, 2019).
Fernie, Ewan. Shakespeare for Freedom: Why the Plays Matter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Fernie, Ewan. “Shakespeare, Religion, and the Making of the Modern City.” Lloyd Davis Memorial Public Lecture (Brisbane: University of Queensland, September 13, 2017).
Fischlin, Daniel, ed. OuterSpeares: Shakespeare, Intermedia, and the Limits of Adaptation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014.
Flaherty, Kate. Ours as We Play It: Australia Plays Shakespeare. Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2012
Fletcher, Angus. Evolving Hamlet: Seventeenth-Century English Tragedy and the Ethics of Natural Selection. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.
Franssen, Paul. Shakespeare's Literary Lives: The Author as Character in Fiction and Film. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Friedman, Michael D. “Where Was He Born? Speak! Tell Me!: Julie Taymor's Tempest, Hawaiian Slavery, and the Birther Controversy.” Shakespeare Bulletin 31.3 (2013): 431-52.
Gaby, Rosemary. Open-air Shakespeare Under Australian Skies. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Galey, Alan. “Networks of Deep Impression: Shakespeare and the History of Information.” Shakespeare Quarterly 61.3 (2010): 289-312.
Garber, Marjorie. “Character Assassination: Shakespeare, Anita Hill, and JFK.” Media Spectacles, ed. Marjorie Garber, Jann Matlock, Rebecca L. Walkowitz (London: Routledge, 1993): 22-39.
Garber, Marjorie. “Shakespeare as Fetish.” Shakespeare Quarterly 41.2 (1990): 242-50.
Garber, Marjorie. “What did Shakespeare Invent?” Profiling Shakespeare. New York, NY: Routledge, 2008. 271-77.
Garber, Marjorie. Shakespeare and Modern Culture. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2009.
Geddes, Louise. Appropriating Shakespeare: A Cultural History of Pyramus and Thisbe. Lanham: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2017.
George, David. A Comparison of Six Adaptations of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, 1681-1962: How Changing Politics Influence the Interpretation of a Text. Lewiston: Mellen, 2008.
Gibińska, Marta, and Agnieszka Romanowska, eds. Shakespeare in Europe: History and Memory. Cracow: Jagiellonian University Press, 2008.
Gillespie, Gerald. “Afterthoughts of Hamlet: Goethe's Wilhelm, Joyce's Stephen.” Comparative Literary History as Discourse: In Honor of Anna Balakian, ed. Mario J. Valdés, Daniel Javitch, and A. Owen Aldridge (Bern: Lang, 1992): 285-304.
Goldberg, Jonathan. Tempest in the Caribbean. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004
Gondris, Joanna, ed. Reading Readings: Essays on Shakespeare Editing in the Eighteenth Century. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1998.
Grady, Hugh. The Modernist Shakespeare: Critical Texts in a Material World. Oxford: Clarendon, 1991.
Graham, Kenneth, and Alysia Kolentsis. Shakespeare: On Stage and Off. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019.
Greenhalgh, Susanne. “A World Elsewhere: Documentary Representations of Social Shakespeare.” Critical Survey 31.4 (2019): 77-87.
Greenberg, Marissa. “Critically Regional Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Bulletin 37.3 (2019): 341-63.
Gregor, Keith. Shakespeare in the Spanish Theatre: 1772 to the Present. London: Bloomsbury, 2009.
Gregor, Keith. “Transversal Connections: The Cervantes Quatercentenary in Spain and its Comparison with 'Shakespeare Lives.” Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance 19.1 (2019): 91-105.
Grier, Miles P. “Staging the Cherokee Othello: An Imperial Economy of Indian Watching.” William and Mary Quarterly73.1 (2016): 73-106.
Habermann, Ina, and Michelle Witen, eds. Shakespeare and Space: Theatrical Explorations of the Spatial Paradigm. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Hall, Kim F. “Beauty and the Beast of Whiteness: Teaching Race and Gender.” Shakespeare Quarterly47 (1996): 461-75.
Hall, Kim F. “Epilogue: On ‘Race,’ Black Feminism, and White Supremacy.” Things of Darkness: Economies of Race and Gender in Early Modern England. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1995. 254-68.
Hall, Kim F. “Uses for a Dead White Male: Shakespeare, Feminism, and Diversity.” New Theatre Quarterly 11 (1995): 55-61.
Hamilton, Jennifer Mae. This Contentious Storm: An Ecocritical and Performance History of King Lear. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
Hamlet, Jess. “‘Not of an Age, but for All Time’: Intergenerational Reflections of Shakespeare in Civil War Virginia.” 'Experienc'd Age knows what for Youth is fit'? Generational and Familial Conflict in British and Irish Drama and Theatre, ed. Katarzyna Bronk-Bacon (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2019): 167-188.
Hansen, Adam. Shakespeare and Popular Music. London: Continuum, 2010
Harding, Jason. “T. S. Eliot's Shakespeare.” Essays in Criticism 62.2 (2012): 160-77.
Hart, Jonathan Locke, ed. Shakespeare and Asia. London: Routledge, 2018.
Hawkes, Terence. Meaning by Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 1992.
Hendricks, Margo, and Patricia Parker, eds. Women, 'Race' and Writing in the Early Modern Period.New York: Routledge, 1994: 1-16.
Hennessey, Katherine. “William Shakespeare: Worlds Here, There, and Elsewhere.” A Companion to World Literature, ed. Christine Chism and Ken Seigneurie (Hoboken: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming).
Hennessey, Katherine; Litvin, Margaret, eds. Shakespeare and the Arab World. New York: Berghahn, 2019
Hidalgo, Pilar. Paradigms Found: Feminist, Gay and New Historicist Readings of Shakespeare.Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2001.
Hilb, Benjamin. “Contesting Olivier and JFK: The Opposition to Wartime Propaganda in Orson Welles's Chimes at Midnight.” Interdisciplinary Literary Studies 17.2 (2015): 164-88.
Hobgood, Allison P. “Teeth Before Eyes: Impairment and Invisibility in Shakespeare's Richard III.” Disability, Health, and Happiness in the Shakespearean Body, ed. Sujata Iyengar (London: Routledge, 2015): 23-40.
Hobgood, Allison P., and David Houston Wood, eds. Disabled Shakespeares. Special issue of Disability Studies Quarterly29.4 (2009).
Hoenselaars, Ton. “Surviving with Shakespeare in World War I and II.” Litteraria Pragensia 24.47 (2014): 27-47.
Hoenselaars, Ton, and Clara Calvo, eds. Shakespeare and the Cultures of Commemoration. Special issue of Critical Survey 22.2 (2010).
Höfele, Andreas. No Hamlets: German Shakespeare from Nietzsche to Carl Schmitt. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016
Hooks, Adam G. Selling Shakespeare: Biography, Bibliography, and the Book Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Huang, Alexa, and Elizabeth Rivlin. Shakespeare and the Ethics of Appropriation. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Hogan, Charles Beecher. Shakespeare in the Theatre, 1701-1800. Vol. 2. A Record of Performance in London, 1751-1800.Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1952.
Hortmann, Wilhelm. Shakespeare on the German Stage: The Twentieth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Panja, Shormishtha, Alexa Huang, Michiko Suematsu, and Yong Li Lan. “Intercultural Theatre and Shakespeare Productions in Asia.” Routledge Handbook of Asian Theatre, ed. Siyuan Liu (New York: Routledge, 2016): 504-24.
Hulme, Peter, and William H. Sherman, eds. The Tempest and Its Travels. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2000.
Iyengar, Sujata. “Shakespeare in HeteroLove,” Literature/Film Quarterly 29 (2001): 122-27.
Iyengar, Sujata. “Women-Crafted Shakespeares: Appropriation, Intermediality, and Womanist Aesthetics.” A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Dympna Callaghan, second ed. (Chichester: Wiley Blackwell, 2016): 507-38.
Jansohn, Christa, and Dieter Mehl, eds. Shakespeare Jubilees: 1769-2014. Zurich: LIT Verlag Münster, 2015.
Jarrett-Macauley, Delia. Shakespeare, Race and Performance: The Diverse Bard. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Jensen, Michael P. The Battle of the Bard: Shakespeare on U.S. Radio in 1937. Leeds: ARC Humanities Press, 2018.
Jones, Maria. Shakespeare's Culture in Modern Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Joseph, Paterson. Julius Caesar and Me: Exploring Shakespeare's African Play. London: Methuen Drama, 2018.
Kahn, Coppélia. “Remembering Shakespeare Imperially: The 1916 Tercentenary.” Shakespeare Quarterly 52.4 (2001): 456–78.
Kemp, Sawyer K. “‘In That Dimension Grossly Clad’: Transgender Rhetoric and Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Studies 47 (2019): 120–26.
Kim, Daeyong. “Shakespeare and Korea: Mutual Remappings.” Textual Distortion, ed. Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2017): 72-84.
Kishi, Tetsuo, and Graham Bradshaw. Shakespeare in Japan. London: Continuum, 2005
Kopf, Dan .“What Is Shakespeare's Most Popular Play?” Priceonomics (Sept. 22, 2016).
Distiller, Natasha. Shakespeare and the Coconuts: On post-apartheid South African culture. New York: NYU Press, 2012.
Jankowski, Theodora A. “. . . in the Lesbian Void: Woman-Woman Eroticism in Shakespeare's Plays.” A Feminist Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Dympna C. Callaghan (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000): 298-319.
Kahn, Coppélia; Nathans, Heather S.; Godfrey, Mimi, ed. Shakespearean Educations: Power, Citizenship, and Performance. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2011.
Keener, Joseph B. Shakespeare and Masculinity in Southern Fiction: Faulkner, Simms, Page, and Dixon. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
King, Edmund G.C. “‘A Priceless Book to Have out Here': Soldiers Reading Shakespeare in the First World War.” Shakespeare 10.3 (2014): 230-44.
Klett, Elizabeth. “Reviving Viola: Comic and Tragic Teen Film Adaptations of Twelfth Night.” Shakespeare Bulletin 26.2 (2008): 69-87.
Kliman, Bernice W.; Santos, Rick J., ed. Latin American Shakespeares. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2005.
Kott, Jan. Shakespeare Our Contemporary. Trans. Boleslaw Taborski. Garden City: Doubleday, 1964.
Kottman, Paul. “Why Think About Shakespearean Tragedy Today?” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2013. 240-61.
Kramnick, Jonathan Brody. Making the English Canon: Print Capitalism and the Cultural Past, 1700–1770. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Krontiris, Tina. “Shakespeare and Conservatism during the Greek Civil War (1946-1950).” Journal of Modern Greek Studies 25 (2007): 195-212.
Landrigan, Stephen, and Qais Akbar Omar. Shakespeare in Kabul. London: Haus, 2012.
Lanier, Douglas. “Shakespeare and Cultural Studies: An Overview.” Shakespeare 2.2 (2006): 228-48.
Leão, Liana de Camargo; Azevedo, Mail Marques de. “Actors and Accents in Shakespearean Performances in Brazil: An Incipient National Theater.” Scripta UNIANDRADE 15.3 (2017): 32-43.
Lee, Adele. “‘Chop-Socky Shakespeare’?!: The Bard Onscreen in Hong Kong.” Shakespeare Bulletin28.4 (2010): 459-79.
Lee, Hyon-U, ed. Glocalizing Shakespeare in Korea and Beyond. Seoul: Dongin, 2009
Lehmann, Courtney. Shakespeare Remains: Theater to Film, Early Modern to Postmodern. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2002.
Lei, Bi-qi Beatrice, and Ching-Hsi Perng, eds. Shakespeare in Culture. Taipei: National Taiwan University Press, 2012.
Lei, Bi-qi Beatrice, Judy Celine Ick, and Poonam Trivedi, eds. Shakespeare’s Asian Journeys: Critical Encounters, Cultural Geographies, and the Politics of Travel. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Levenson, Jill L., and Robert Ormsby, eds. The Shakespearean World. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Levine, Lawrence. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1988.
Levith, Murray J. Shakespeare in China. London: Continuum, 2004
Li Ruru. Shashibiya: Staging Shakespeare in China. Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 2003
Lindley, David. Shakespeare and Music. London: Arden Shakespeare, 2006.
Lipking, Lawrence. The Ordering of the Arts in Eighteenth-Century England. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1970.
Litvin, Margaret. Hamlet's Arab Journey: Shakespeare's Prince and Nasser's Ghost. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2011.
Loftis, Sonya Freeman. “Autistic Culture, Shakespeare Therapy, and the Hunter Heartbeat Method.” Shakespeare Survey72 (2019): 256-67.
Loftis, Sonya Freeman, Allison Kellar, and Lisa Ulevich, eds. Shakespeare's Hamlet in an Era of Textual Exhaustion. London: Routledge, 2017.
Loomba, Ania. Gender, Race, Renaissance Drama. Manchester University Press, 1989.
Loomba, Ania, and Martin Orkin, eds. Post-colonial Shakespeares. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Lupton, Julia Reinhard. “Shakespeare's Social Work: From Displacement to Placement in Twelfth Night.” Shakespeare: On Stage and Off, ed. Kenneth Graham and Alysia Kolentsis (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2019): 94-108.
Lupton, Julia Reinhard, and Kenneth Reinhard. After Oedipus: Shakespeare in Psychoanalysis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993
Lynch, Jack. Becoming Shakespeare: The Unlikely Afterlife That Turned a Provincial Playwright into the Bard. New York: Walker, 2007.
Makaryk, Irena R., and Marissa McHugh, eds. Shakespeare and the Second World War: Memory, Culture, Identity. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2012.
Makaryk, Irena R. and Joseph G.Price, eds. Shakespeare in the Worlds of Communism and Socialism. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006.
Mallin, Eric S. Reading Shakespeare in the Movies: Non-Adaptations and Their Meaning. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Mancewicz, Aneta. Intermedial Shakespeares on European Stages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Mancewicz, Aneta, and Alexa Alice Joubin, ed. Local and Global Myths in Shakespearean Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Mangan, Michael. “‘No country for old men’? Shakespeare, the Public Sphere and the Gerontological Turn in Theatre.” Shakespeare 14.1 (2018): 38-50.
Marchitello, Howard. Remediating Shakespeare in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Marcus, Leah S. How Shakespeare Became Colonial: Editorial Tradition and the British Empire. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Marsden, Jean I. The Re-Imagined Text: Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Theory. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1995.
Marsden, Jean, ed. The Appropriation of Shakespeare: Post-Renaissance Reconstructions of the Works and the Myth. New York: Hempstead, 1991.
Marshall, Gail. Shakespeare and Victorian Women. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Marshall, Gail, ed. Shakespeare in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Marshall, Gail, and Adrian Poole, eds. Victorian Shakespeare. Basingstoke: School of Advanced Study, University of London, 2003.
Martin, Randall. Shakespeare and Ecology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015.
Massai, Sonia. ed. World-Wide Shakespeares: Local Appropriations in Film and Performance. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Matthews, Paul M., and Jeffrey McQuain. The Bard on the Brain: Understanding the Mind through the Art of Shakespeare and the Science of Brain Imaging. New York: Dana, 2003.
Maxwell, Julie, and Kate Rumbold. Shakespeare and Quotation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
McCarthy, John A., ed. Shakespeare as German Author: Reception, Translation Theory, and Cultural Transfer. Leiden: Brill Rodopi, 2018.
McCombe, John P. “Henry James, Shakespeare's Biography, and the Question of National Identity in 'The Birthplace' and 'The Introduction to The Tempest’.” Henry James Review 31.2 (2010): 169-87.
McCulloch, Lynsey, and Brandon Shaw, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019.
McLuskie, Kate, and Kate Rumbold. Cultural Value in Twenty-First-Century England: The Case of Shakespeare. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2014.
McMullan, Gordon, and Philip Mead. Antipodal Shakespeare: Remembering and Forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016. London: Bloomsbury, 2018.
Melnikoff, Kirk. “Reading Hamlet (1603): Nicholas Ling, Sententiae, and Republicanism.” Elizabethan Publishing and the Makings of Literary Culture. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2018. 155-82.
Menon, Madhavi. Shakesqueer: A Queer Companion to the Complete Works of Shakespeare. Durham: Duke University Press, 2011.
Middleton, Irene. “A Jew's Daughter and a Christian's Wife: Performing Jessica's Multiplicity in The Merchant of Venice.” Shakespeare Bulletin 33.2 (2015): 293-317.
Minton, Gretchen E. “...the season of all natures': Montana Shakespeare in the Parks' Global Warming Macbeth.” Shakespeare Bulletin 36.3 (Fall 2018): 429-48.
Modenessi, Alfredo Michel. “Mr. Goodwill in Rancho Grande: Investigating the 'Ghostly' Presence of Shakespeare in Mexican Cinema.” Global World of Shakespeare: Translations, Adaptations, Transformations, ed. Abha Singh (Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2015): 103-21.
Moore, Tiffany Ann Conroy. Kozintsev's Shakespeare Films: Russian Political Protest in Hamlet and King Lear. Jefferson: McFarland, 2012.
Mowat, Barbara A. “The Founders and the Bard.” Yale Review 97.4 (2009): 1-18.
Muir, Andrew. The True Performing of it: Bob Dylan & William Shakespeare. Penryn: Red Planet, 2019.
Muñoz-Valdivieso, Sofía. “‘All the World’s a Stage’: William Shakespeare’s Cultural Capital 400 Years after his Death.” Changing English 24.1 (2017): 67-80.
Murray, Barbara A. Restoration Shakespeare: Viewing the Voice. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2001.
Nahshon, Edna, and Michael Shapiro, eds. Wrestling with Shylock: Jewish Responses to The Merchant of Venice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Newstok, Scott. How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Newstok, Scott L., and Harry Berger, Jr. “Harrying After VV.” Shakespeare Yearbook 20 (2011): 141-52.
Newstok, Scott L., and Ayanna Thompson, eds. Weyward Macbeth: Intersections of Race and Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Novy, Marianne. Women's Re-visions of Shakespeare: On the Responses of Dickinson, Woolf, Rich, H.D., George Eliot, and Others. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1990.
Novy, Marianne. Engaging with Shakespeare: Responses of George Eliot and Other Women Novelists. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994.
O'Dair, Sharon. “Goffman versus Hamlet: On the Theatrical Metaphor.” The Hare 2.2 (2014)
O'Dair, Sharon, Timothy Francisco, ed. Shakespeare and the 99%: Literary Studies, the Profession, and the Production of Inequity. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
O'Neill, Stephen. “Shakespeare and Social Media.” Literature Compass 12.6 (2015).
Oesterlen, Eve-Marie. “Lend Me Your 84 Million Ears: Exploring a Special Radio Event--Shakespeare's King Lear on BBC World Service Radio.” Radio Journal 6.1 (2008): 33-44.
Ohge, Christopher, et al. “At the Axis of Reality: Melville's Marginalia in The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare.”Leviathan: A Journal of Melville Studies 20.2 (2018): 37-67.
Olive, Sarah. Shakespeare Valued: Education Policy and Pedagogy 1989-2009. Bristol: Intellect, 2005.
Olson, Rebecca, and Stephanie Pietros, eds. First-Generation Shakespeare. Special issue of Early Modern Culture 14 (2019).
Orchard, Christopher. “Works, not Playes”: Print, Reformatory Theatre and the Privileging of Jonson over Shakespeare in 1640s and 1650s Britain.” Shakespeare 12.4 (2016): 375-88.
Orgel, Stephen, and Sean Keilen, eds. Shakespeare and the Arts. New York: Garland, 1999.
Orgel, Stephen, and Sean Keilen, eds. Postmodern Shakespeare. New York: Garland, 1999.
Oya, Reiko. “‘Last on the stage’: The Place of Shakespeare in Charles Darwin's Ethology.” Shakespeare Survey 62 (2009): 317-27.
Packett, Kila. “All Kenya's a Stage: Shakespeare in Africa.” American Theatre 37.10 (2020): 70-75.
Panja, Shormishtha, and Babli Moitra Saraf. Performing Shakespeare in India: Exploring Indianness, Literatures and Cultures. Los Angeles: Sage, 2016.
Patricia, Anthony Guy. Queering the Shakespeare Film: Gender Trouble, Gay Spectatorship and Male Homoeroticism. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.
Pelaschiar, Laura, ed. Joyce/Shakespeare. Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2015.
Pemble, John. Shakespeare Goes to Paris: How the Bard Conquered France. London: Hambledon and London, 2005.
Pittman, L. Monique. Authorizing Shakespeare on Film and Television: Gender, Class, and Ethnicity in Adaptation. New York: Lang, 2011.
Pittman, L. Monique. “Shakespeare and the Cultural Olympiad: Contesting Gender and the British Nation in the BBC's The Hollow Crown.” Borrowers and Lenders 9.2 (2015).
Plastow, Jane, ed. Shakespeare in and out of Africa. Woodbridge: Currey, 2013
Plescia, Iolanda. “Shakespeare, Linguistics, and a New Philology.” Memoria di Shakespeare 8 (2012): 79-94.
Poole, Adrian. “The Romance of Certain Old Texts: Henry James and Shakespeare.” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 254.1 (2017): 67-81.
Prescott, Paul. Reviewing Shakespeare: Journalism and Performance from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013
Prescott, Paul, and Erin Sullivan, eds. Shakespeare on the Global Stage: Performance and Festivity in the Olympic Year. London: Bloomsbury, 2015.
Pressly, William L. The Artist as Original Genius: Shakespeare's "Fine Frenzy" in Late-Eighteenth-Century British Art. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007.
Price, Diana. “Reconsidering Shakespeare's Monument.” Review of English Studies 48 (1997): 168-82.
Price, Eoin. “War Without Shakespeare: Reading Shakespearian Absence, 1642-1649.” Shakespeare Survey 72 (2019): 75-85.
Prince, Kathryn. Shakespeare in the Victorian Periodicals. London: Routledge, 2008.
Purcell, Stephen. Popular Shakespeare: Simulation and Subversion on the Modern Stage. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Rank, Sven. Twentieth-century Adaptations of Macbeth: Writing Between Influence, Intervention, and Cultural Transfer. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2010.
Resende, Aimara da Cunha, ed. Foreign Accents: Brazilian Readings of Shakespeare.
Rhodes, Kimberly. Ophelia and Victorian Visual Culture: Representing Body Politics in the Nineteenth Century. Burlington: Ashgate, 2008
Rhodes, Neil. "Shakespeare's Popularity and the Origins of the Canon." The Elizabethan Top Ten: Defining Print Popularity in Early Modern England, ed. Andy Kesson and Emma Smith (Burlington: Ashgate, 2013): 101-22.
Ridden, Geoffrey M. “The Bard's Speech: Making it Better; Shakespeare and Therapy in Film.” Borrowers and Lenders 8.2 (2013-14).
Ritchie, Fiona. Women and Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014
Ritchie, Fiona, and Peter Sabor, eds. Shakespeare in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012
Rogers, Rebecca, and Kathleen E.McLuskie. “Which Early Modern Playing Companies Were Commercially Successful?” Research Opportunities in Renaissance Drama 43 (2004): 54-74.
Ross, Trevor. The Making of the English Literary Canon: From the Middle Ages to the Late Eighteenth Century. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1998.
Roy, Amitava, Krishna Sen, and Debnarayan Bandopadhyay, eds. Colonial and Postcolonial Shakespeares. Calcutta: Shakespeare Society of Eastern India and Avantgarde Press, 2001.
Rozmovits, Linda. Shakespeare and the Politics of Culture in Late Victorian England. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Ruiter, David. “Shakespeare and Theatre at the Civic Intersection.” New Places: Shakespeare and Civic Creativitiy, ed. Paul Edmondson (London: Bloomsbury, 2018): 235-49.
Rumbold, Kate. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth-Century Novel: Cultures of Quotation from Samuel Richardson to Jane Austen. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Sabor, Peter, and Paul Yachnin, eds. Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century. Burlington: Ashgate, 2008.
Salazar, Rebecca. “A Rogue and Pleasant Stage: Performing Ecology in Outdoor Shakespeares.” Shakespeare Bulletin36.3 (2018): 449-66.
Sanders, Julie. Novel Shakespeares: Twentieth-Century Women Novelists and Appropriation. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2001.
Sanders, Julie. Shakespeare and Music: Afterlives and Borrowings. Cambridge: Polity, 2007.
Saunders, Graham. “Why Rewrite Shakespeare and His Contemporaries?” Elizabethan and Jacobean Reappropriation in Contemporary British Drama. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 25-55
Savoie, John. “Monuments Men: Milton on Shakespeare.” Literary Imagination 19.1 (2017): 19-29.
Sawyer, Robert. Shakespeare Between the World Wars: The Anglo-American Sphere. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Sawyer, Robert. Victorian Appropriations of Shakespeare: George Eliot, A. C. Swinburne, Robert Browing, and Charles Dickens. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2003.
Scaravelli, Enrico. The Rise of Bardolatry in the Restoration: Paratexts of Shakespearean Adaptations and other Texts 1660-1737. Bern: Peter Lang, 2016.
Schmidgall, Gary. Shakespeare and Opera. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Schoch, Richard W. Not Shakespeare: Bardolatry and Burlesque in the Nineteenth Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Schoch, Richard W. Shakespeare's Victorian Stage: Performing History in the Theatre of Charles Kean. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
Semenenko, Aleksei. Hamlet the Sign: Russian Translations of Hamlet and Literary Canon Formation. Stockholm: Stickholm University, 2007.
Semenza, Gregory M. Colón. “Shakespeare after Columbine: Teen Violence in Tim Blake Nelson's O.” College Literature32.4 (2005): 99-124.
Shapiro, James. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future. New York: Penguin, 2020.
Scheil, Katherine West. Imagining Shakespeare's Wife: The Afterlife of Anne Hathaway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018.
Scheil, Katherine West. She Hath Been Reading: Women and Shakespeare Clubs in America. Cornell University Press, 2012.
Scott-Warren, Jason. “Milton’s Shakespeare?” Centre for Material Texts (Sept. 9, 2019).
Scott-Warren, Jason. Shakespeare's First Reader: The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
Shaughnessy, Robert. The Shakespeare Effect: A History of Twentieth-Century Performance. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Shaw, W. David. The Ghost Behind the Masks: The Victorian Poets and Shakespeare. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2014.
Shellard, Dominic, and Siobhan Keenan, eds. Shakespeare’s Cultural Capital: His Economic Impact from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Sheen, Erica; Karremann, Isabel, eds. Shakespeare in Cold War Europe: Conflict, Commemoration, Celebration. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Sillars, Stuart. Painting Shakespeare: The Artist as Critic 1720-1820. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006
Simon, Henry W. “Why Shakespeare?” The English Journal 23.5 (May 1934): 363-68.
Silverstone, Catherine. “Shakespeare, Cinema, and Queer Adolescents: Unhappy Endings and Heartfelt Conclusions.” Shakespeare 10.3 (2014): 309-27.
Sinfield, Alan. “Give an Account of Shakespeare and Education, Showing Why You Think They are Effective and What You have Appreciated about Them. Support Your Comments with Precise Examples.” Political Shakespeare: New Essays in Cultural Materialism. Jonathan Dollimore and Alan Sinfield, Eds. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1985. 158-81.
Singh, Abha. Global World of Shakespeare: Translations, Adaptations, Transformations. Delhi: Prestige Books International, 2015.
Singh, Jyotsna G. Shakespeare and Postcolonial Theory. London: Bloomsbury, 2019.
Singh, Jyotsna G, and Abdulhamit Arvas. “Global Shakespeares, Affective Histories, Cultural Memories.” Shakespeare Survey 68 (2015): 183-96.
Singh, Jyotsna G., and Gitanjali G. Shahani. “Postcolonial Shakespeare Revisited.” Shakespeare 6.1 (2010): 127–38.
Skupin, Michael.” Shakespeare Comes to Indonesia.” Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance 10.25 (2013): 99-119.
Slater, Michael. “Dickens's Shakespeare.” Unsettling Dickens: Process, Progress, and Change, ed. Christine Huguet and Paul Vita (Paris: Editions du Sagittaire, 2016): 195-209.
Smialkowska, Monika. “Conscripting Caliban: Shakespeare, America, and the First World War.” Shakespeare 7.2 (2011): 192-207.
Smialkowska, Monika, ed. Shakespeare and the Great War. Special issue of Shakespeare 10.3 (2014).
Smith, Bruce, ed. The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare. 2 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Smith, C. Alphonso. “Why Young Men Should Study Shakespeare.” How to Study Shakespeare. University Society Incorporated, 1902. 11-17.
Smith, Gay. Lady Macbeth in America: From the Stage to the White House. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010
Smith, Emma. Shakespeare's First Folio: Four Centuries of an Iconic Book. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
Smith, Emma. This Is Shakespeare. London: Pelican, 2019.
Smith, J.A. "Shakespeare Ancient and Modern: the 1750s Reception." Review of English Studies68.285 (2017): 566–82.
Smith, Philip. Shakespeare in Singapore: Performance, Education, and Culture. London: Routledge, 2020.
Sperlinger, Tom. Romeo and Juliet in Palestine: Teaching under Occupation. Winchester: Zero Books, 2015.
Stallybrass, Peter. “Editing as Cultural Formation: The Sexing of Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” Modern Language Quarterly54.1 (1993): 91-103.
Steinberger, Rebecca. Shakespeare and Twentieth-Century Irish Drama: Conceptualizing Identity and Staging Boundaries. Burlington: Ashgate, 2008.
Stott, Andrew McConnell. What Blest Genius?: The Jubilee That Made Shakespeare. New York: Norton, 2019.
Sukhanova, Ekaterina. Voicing the Distant: Shakespeare and Russian Modernist Poetry. Madison: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2004.
Sullivan, Erin. "Anti-Bardolatry Through the Ages - or, Why Voltaire, Tolstoy, Shaw and Wittgenstein Didn't Like Shakespeare." Opticon1826 2 (2007).
Symington, Rodney. The Nazi Appropriation of Shakespeare: Cultural Politics in the Third Reich. Lewiston: Mellen, 2005.
Taylor, Antony. “Shakespeare and Radicalism: The Uses and Abuses of Shakespeare in Nineteenth-Century Popular Politics.” Historical Journal 45.2 (2002): 357–79.
Taylor, Michael. Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
Taylor, Gary. Reinventing Shakespeare: A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Thakur, Vikram Singh. Shakespeare and Indian Theatre: The Politics of Performance. London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
Thew, Neill. Teaching Shakespeare: A Survey of the Undergraduate Level in Higher Education. York: Higher Education Academy, 2006.
Thind, Rajiv. “Shakespeare's Exclusionary ‘Slime’: A Rationale for the Study of Literary Exclusions.” International Journal of the Humanities 15.1 (2017): 1-15.
Thomas, Alfred. Shakespeare, Dissent, and the Cold War. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Thomas, Julia. Shakespeare’s Shrine: The Bard’s Birthplace and the Invention of Stratford-upon-Avon. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
Thompson, Ayanna. Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America. Oxford: University of Oxford Press, 2011.
Thompson, Ayanna, ed. Colorblind Shakespeare: New Perspective on Race and Performance. London: Routledge, 2006.
Thurman, Chris, ed. South African Essays on 'Universal' Shakespeare. London: Routledge, 2014.
Timplalexi, Elani. “Shakespeare in Digital Games and Virtual Worlds.” Multicultural Shakespeare: Translation, Appropriation, and Performance 18.33 (2018): 129-44.
Traub, Valerie. The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Embodiment: Gender, Sexuality, and Race. Oxford University Press, 2016.
Tronch, Jesús. “Hamletism in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-39.” Critical Survey 30.1 (2018): 115-32.
Vickers, Brian. Appropriating Shakespeare: Contemporary Critical Quarrels. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
Vignaux, Michèle. “A Southern Shakespeare?” TransAtlantica 1 (2010).
Walsh, Jaquelyn W. The Impact of Restoration Critical Theory on the Adaptation of Four Shakespearean Comedies. Lewiston: Mellen, 2000
Walsh, Marcus. Shakespeare, Milton, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing: The Beginnings of Interpretative Scholarship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997
Ward, Sophie. Using Shakespeare's Plays to Explore Education Policy Today: Neoliberalism through the lens of Renaissance humanism. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Way, Geoffrey. “Together, Apart: Liveness, Eventness, and Streaming Shakespearean Performace.” Shakespeare Bulletin 35.3 (2017): 389-406.
Weir, David. Ulysses Explained: How Homer, Dante, and Shakespeare Inform Joyce's Modernst Vision. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
Wells, Stanley. “Why Study Shakespeare?” Shakespeare: An Oxford Guide, ed. Stanley Wells and Lena Cowen Owen (Oxford: Oxford University Press: 2003): 3-8.
Wetmore, Kevin J., and Adam Hansen Jr., eds. Shakespearean Echoes. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
White, R.S. “Taming Shrews in the Modern World.” The Critic Shakespeare: Essays in Appreciation, ed. Anand Prakash and S.P.S. Dahiya (Kurukshetra, Haryana: Shakespeare Association, 2010): 103-27.
Willan, Brian. “Whose Shakespeare? Early black South African Engagement with Shakespeare.” Shakespeare in Southern Africa 24.1 (2012): 3-24.
Willson, Robert F., Jr. “Why Teach Shakespeare? A Reconsideration.” Shakespeare Quarterly 41.2 (1990): 206-10.
Wilson-Lee, Edward. Shakespeare in Swahililand: In Search of a Global Poet. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Woo, Celestine. Romantic Actors and Bardolatry: Performing Shakespeare from Garrick to Kean. New York: Lang, 2008.
Wood, Nigel, ed. Shakespeare and the Public Sphere. Special issue of Shakespeare 14.1 (2008).
Woodford-Gormley, Donna. “Cuban Improvisations: Reverse Colonization via Shakespeare.” Shakespeare Survey 71 (2018): 59-64.
Wozniak, Jan. The Politics of Performing Shakespeare for Young People: Standing up to Shakespeare. London: Bloomsbury, 2016.