Plays:
As You Like It, 2000. New Cambridge Shakespeare. ISBN:?0521294126.
King Henry V, 1992. New Cambridge Shakespeare. ISBN:?ISBN 0521293693 .
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, 2003 (NB: 2nd edition). New Cambridge Shakespeare. ISBN:?0521532523.
The Tempest, 2002. New Cambridge Shakespeare. ISBN:?052129374X.
Sonnets:
Katherine Duncan-Jones (ed.): Arden Shakespeare, 3rd Series, Shakespeare's Sonnets, 1997. Thomson. ISBN:?1903436575. Sonnets 15, 19, 29, 55, 57, 66, 73, 85, 106, 111, 116, 129, 138 and 147.
Criticism and historical background:
Margreta de Grazia and Stanley Wells (ed.): Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies, 1997. Cambridge University Press. ISBN:?0521658810.
Utdrag:
- Ernst Honigmann, "Shakespeare's Life" (pp. 1-12)
- Leonard Barkan, "What did Shakespeare Read?" (pp. 31-47)
- Susan Snyder, "The Genres of Shakespeare's Plays" (pp. 83-97)
- John H. Astington, "Playhouses, Players, and Playgoers in Shakespeare's Time" (pp. 99-113)
- Anne Barton: "The London Scene: City and Court" (pp. 115-28)
- David Scott Kastan, "Shakespeare and English History" (pp. 167-82)
List on background reading supplied in class.