List of Shakespeare reference materials

General Background

The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare, ed. Dobson and Wells (new ed. 2015) - PR2892 .O94 2015 RR

The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare, ed. De Grazia and Wells (2nd ed. 2010) – PR2894 C33 2010

The Cambridge Guide to the Worlds of Shakespeare, ed. Smith (2016) – PR2976 C295 2016 RR Vol. 1 – “Shakespeare’s World, 1500-1660”; Vol. 2 – “The World’s Shakespeare, 1660-Present”

A Companion to Shakespeare, ed. David Scott Kastan (1999) PR2910 C66 1999

The Reader’s Encyclopedia of Shakespeare, ed. Campbell and Quinn (1966) – PR2892 C3 copy 1 RR Older but has information that is not always available in more recent “companions.”

The various Companions provide inciteful articles on special subjects such as the Chamberlain’s-King’s Men; Licensing and Censorship; Reading the Bible and the Classics; Shakespeare and Race, Sexuality and Gender; Popular Culture; Media History; and Shakespeare’s London.