Shakespeare: an Oxford guide

Shakespeare's life and times. Why study Shakespeare? / Stanley Wells

Shakespeare's life and career / Lois Potter

Theatre in London / Gabriel Egan

Shakespeare's audiences / Margaret Jane Kidnie

Conventions of playwriting / Peter Thomson

Shakespeare's fellow dramatists / A.R. Braunmuller

The language of Shakespeare / David Crystal

Shakespeare's verse / Russ McDonald

The society of Shakespeare's England / Carole Levin

Daily life in town and country / Joan Thirsk

Love, sex, and marriage / Martin Ingram

Changing attitudes towards religion / Peter Lake

Ideas of order / Lena Cowen Orlin

Shakespeare's view of the world / Emily C. Bartels

Shakespearian genres. Introduction / Lena Cowen Orlin

Romanitic comedies / William C. Carroll

Reading: Twelfth night, or What you will

English history plays / Phyllis Rackin

Reading: Henry V

Tragedies / Linda Woodbridge

Reading: Macbeth

Roman plays / Alexander Leggatt

Reading: Julius Caesar

Romances / Reginald Foakes

Reading: The winter's tale

Comical and tragical / Paul Edmondson

Reading : Measure for measure

Non-dramatic poetry / Lynne Magnusson

Reading: Shakespeare's sonnets

Unfamiliar Shakespeare / Alan Armstrong

Shakespeare criticism. The critical tradition / Michael Taylor

Humanist interpretation / Michael D. Bristol

Reading: King Lear

Character criticism / Christy Desmet

Reading: Hamlet

Source study / Leah Scragg

Reading: As you like it

Close reading / Inga-Stina Ewbank

Reading: Richard III

Feminist criticism / Jean E. Howard

Reading: Othello

Studies in sexuality / Bruce R. Smith

Reading: The merchant of Venice

Psychoanalytic criticisms / Lynn Enterline

Reading: Venus and Adonis

Materialist criticisms / Jonathan Gil Harris

Reading: Henry IV part one

Post-colonial criticism / Jyotsna Singh

Reading: The tempest

Deconstruction / Kiernan Ryan

Reading: Romeo and Juliet

Performance history : Shakespeare on the stage, 1660-2001 / Patricia Tatspaugh

Reading: A midsummer night's dream

Performance criticism / Miriam Gilbert

Reading: The taming of the shrew

Shakespeare's afterlife. Introduction / Terence Hawkes

Shakespeare published / Laurie Maguire

Shakespeare and the modern British theatre / Michael Billington

Shakespeare on film and video / Tony Howard

The question of authorship / David Kathman

Shakespeare's influence / John Gross

Shakespeare and translation / Ton Hoenselaars

Commemorating Shakespeare / Georgianna Ziegler

Internet and CD ROM resources / Michael Best.