Best books on shakespeare
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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
We thought it was time we offered our pick of the best books about William Shakespeare: the best introductions to his life and his work.
The following is not designed to be an exhaustive list, but many of these books were written by leading Shakespeare scholars and each contains something which every fan of the Bard should know.
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Jonathan Bate, The Genius of Shakespeare.
This book, published in 1997, examines the legacy of Shakespeare’s work, the way it has inspired others (from Romantic poets and novelists to twentieth-century postcolonial theorists), and how Shakespeare’s writing is constantly reinvented and recast by each new generation.
It’s a hugely readable book, since Bate is happy to speculate – drawing on what evidence is available – as to many of the great mysteries of Shakespeare’