What to Read After Shakespeare
Readers who loved Shakespeare by Harold Bloom keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where Shakespeare is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after Shakespeare
Will in the World
Shakespeare
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
The FriendlyShakespeare
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
The Western canon
How to Read and Why
Shakespeare's Language
Shakespeare the Thinker
Shakespearean Tragedy
Troilus and Cressida
Genius
The Anxiety of Influence
The Best Poems of the English Language
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Shakespeare After All
Works (38 Plays, 5 Poems, Sonnets)
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Henry VI, Part 2
Hamlet
King Henry VIII
The Theater and its Double