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
Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare
The friendlyShakespeare
The Western canon
How to read and why
Shakespeare the Thinker
Shakespearean Tragedy
Troilus and Cressida
Genius
The anxiety of influence
The Best Poems of the English Language
Works (38 plays, 5 poems, sonnets)
Shakespeare after all
Northrop Frye on Shakespeare
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Henry VI, Part 2
King Henry VIII
The Theater and its Double
The Book of J
The Elizabethan world picture