What to Read After Shakespeare
Readers who loved Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd 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
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
Shakespeare
Samuel Pepys
Elizabeth's London
Shakespeare
Renaissance self-fashioning
Shakespeare the Thinker
Shakespeare
London
The Thames
Nothing like the sun
house of Doctor Dee.
Dr. Johnson's London
Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
Restoration London
London Under
A Dead Man in Deptford
The Best Poems of the English Language
Victorian London
Terry Jones' Medieval Lives
Richard the Third
Complete Poems of Hart Crane
King John