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If you loved Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare, this shelf of 24 books shares the same pull — rooted in Shakespeare, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and European.

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Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now — Hillary Eklund

Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary — Philip C. Kolin

Routledge Revivals: Shakespeare and Feminist Criticism (1991) An Annotated Bibliography and Commentary

Philip C. Kolin

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare’s Tragedies A Very Short Introduction — Stanley Wells

Shakespeare’s Tragedies A Very Short Introduction

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare in the Theatre — William Poel

Shakespeare in the Theatre

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth — Peggy O’Brien

Teaching A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Macbeth — Peggy O’Brien

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Old Age Journey Into Simplicity — Helen M. Luke

Old Age Journey Into Simplicity

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Voice Terminal Echo (Routledge Revivals) Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts — Jonathan Goldberg

Voice Terminal Echo (Routledge Revivals) Postmodernism and English Renaissance Texts

Jonathan Goldberg

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder — T. G. Bishop

Shakespeare and the Theatre of Wonder

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Impersonations The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England — Stephen Orgel

Impersonations The Performance of Gender in Shakespeare’s England

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Renaissance of Emotion Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries — Richard Meek

The Renaissance of Emotion Understanding Affect in Shakespeare and His Contemporaries

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare, the Orient, and the Critics — Abdulla Al-Dabbagh

Shakespeare, the Orient, and the Critics

Abdulla Al-Dabbagh

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The Lost Garden A View of Shakespeare’s English and Roman History Plays — John Wilders

The Lost Garden A View of Shakespeare’s English and Roman History Plays

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Soul of the Age The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare — Jonathan Bate

Soul of the Age The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Anthony Munday and Civic Culture Theatre, History, and Power in Early Modern London : 1580-1633 — Tracey Hill

Anthony Munday and Civic Culture Theatre, History, and Power in Early Modern London : 1580-1633

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

The English History Play In The Age Of Shakespeare — Irving Ribner

The English History Play In The Age Of Shakespeare

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Fortunes of Falstaff — John Dover Wilson

Fortunes of Falstaff

John Dover Wilson

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Memory in Shakespeare’s Histories Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England — Jonathan Baldo

Memory in Shakespeare’s Histories Stages of Forgetting in Early Modern England

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Reading the Allegorical Intertext Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton — Judith H. Anderson

Reading the Allegorical Intertext Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton

Judith H. Anderson

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Alchemist — Ben Jonson

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama — Helen Hackett

A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare’s Accents Voicing Identity in Performance — Sonia Massai

Shakespeare’s Accents Voicing Identity in Performance

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century Economics The Morality of Love and Money — Frederick Turner

Shakespeare’s Twenty-First Century Economics The Morality of Love and Money

Frederick Turner

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Hamlet in Purgatory — Stephen Greenblatt

Hamlet in Purgatory

Stephen Greenblatt

Themes: Shakespeare • Drama • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

If Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Shakespeare, Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by William Shakespeare, Hillary Eklund, Philip C. Kolin, Stanley Wells, and others.

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