Start with high-confidence shakespeare studies books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
How Shakespeare Changed Everything
Stephen Marche
The Western Canon
Harold Bloom
Shakespeare's Restless World
Neil MacGregor
The Bible in Shakespeare
Hannibal Hamlin
The Gospel According to Shakespeare
Piero Boitani
In Shakespeare's Shadow
Michael Blanding
Playing Shakespeare
John Barton
Twelfth Night
William Shakespeare, Natasha Korda
Tyrant
Stephen Greenblatt
King John/henry VIII
William Shakespeare, William H. Matchett
Bernard Shaw on Literature
George Bernard Shaw, Gustavo A. Rodriguez Martin
Affecting Grace
Kenneth S. Calhoon, Kenneth C. Calhoon
Tales of the Troubled Dead
Catherine Belsey
Othello
William Shakespeare, Dr. Barbara A. Mowat
Unfixable Forms
Katherine Schaap Williams
Emily Dickinson's Shakespeare
Paraic Finnerty
Macbeth
William Shakespeare, SparkNotes
The Winter's Tale
William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse
Measure for Measure
William Shakespeare
Shakespeare's Greatest Love
David Medina
