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Across Shakespeare, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European, and Literary Criticism — 24 books that belong on the same shelf as The Sonnets by William Shakespeare.

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The Sonnets and a Lover’s Complaint — William Shakespeare

The Sonnets and a Lover’s Complaint

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

The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature — Camilla Caporicci

The Art of Picturing in Early Modern English Literature

Camilla Caporicci

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

Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England — Heather James

Ovid and the Liberty of Speech in Shakespeare’s England

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

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

Reading the Allegorical Intertext Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton

Judith H. Anderson

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

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 • English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh • European

A Mirror for Lovers — Zak, William F.

A Mirror for Lovers

Zak, William F.

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

Shakespeare Reproduced The Text in History and Ideology — Jean E. Howard

Shakespeare Reproduced The Text in History and Ideology

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

The Sacred Wood — T S Eliot

The Sacred Wood — T S Eliot

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

Marlowe’s Ghost The Blacklisting of the Man Who Was Shakespeare — Daryl Pinksen

Marlowe’s Ghost The Blacklisting of the Man Who Was Shakespeare

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

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

Teaching Social Justice Through Shakespeare Why Renaissance Literature Matters Now

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

Beginning Shakespeare — Lisa Hopkins

Beginning Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare in the Theatre — William Poel

Shakespeare in the Theatre

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

Fortunes of Falstaff — John Dover Wilson

Fortunes of Falstaff

John Dover Wilson

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

Tolkien And The Great War The Threshold Of Middle-earth — John Garth

Tolkien And The Great War The Threshold Of Middle-earth

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

Shakespeare’s Prophetic Mind — A. C. Harwood

Shakespeare’s Prophetic Mind

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

Shakespeare and Domestic Loss Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and Recuperation — Heather Dubrow

Shakespeare and Domestic Loss Forms of Deprivation, Mourning, and Recuperation

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

Hamlet’s Perfection — William Kerrigan

Hamlet’s Perfection

William Kerrigan

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

Players The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare — Bertram Fields

Players The Mysterious Identity of William Shakespeare

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

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration — Dan Brayton

Shakespeare’s Ocean An Ecocritical Exploration

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

Shakespeare’s Tragedies A Very Short Introduction — Stanley Wells

Shakespeare’s Tragedies A Very Short Introduction

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

Chronicles of Fashion From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century, in Manners, Amusements, Banquets, Costume, Etc — T. G. Bishop

Chronicles of Fashion From the Time of Elizabeth to the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century, in Manners, Amusements, Banquets, Costume, Etc

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

Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland — Christopher Highley

Shakespeare, Spenser, and the Crisis in Ireland

Christopher Highley

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

Shakespeare Survey — Kenneth Muir

Shakespeare Survey

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

The Shakespearean Ethic — John Vyvyan

The Shakespearean Ethic

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

The 24 books on this list are tied together by themes of Shakespeare, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, European — the same threads that run through The Sonnets by William Shakespeare. Among the authors featured: William Shakespeare, Camilla Caporicci, Heather James, Judith H. Anderson, and others.

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