Shakespeare plays reviewed in this blog include (productions mentioned in parentheses; RSC = Royal Shakespeare Company; NT = National Theatre), EODS = Eastbourne Operatic and Dramatic Society
- Timon of Athens (RSC 2019)
- As You Like It (RSC 2019)
- Antony and Cleopatra (NT 2019)
- Merry Wives of Windsor (RSC 2018)
- Romeo and Juliet
- Macbeth (RSC 2019, Liverpool Everyman Playhouse2011 viewed on Digital Theatre in 2024)
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (Lazarus, 2018)
- Hamlet (RSC 2013, RSC 2018, film directed by Sean Matthias 2024)
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre (George Players Huntingdon 2017)
- The Taming of the Shrew
- Cymbeline (RSC 2016)
- King Lear (RSC 2016, BBC 2018)
- The Winter's Tale (NT at Milton Keynes 2013, RADA 2016, Branagh (live broadcast) 2019, EODS (amateur open air performance) 2023)
- The Tempest (RSC 2017, Royal Northampton 2016, Lazarus 2019)
- Othello (Tower Theatre 2015)
- Measure for Measure (Young Vic 2015; RSC 2019)
- Richard II
- Troilus and Cressida (Marlowe Youth Theatre Canterbury 2020)
- The Two Gentlemen of Verona
- Julius Caesar (RSC, Stratford March 2017)
- Love's Labour's Lost (EODS January 2024, Stratford Festival on Digital Theatre 2015, viewed 2024)
Works about Shakespeare reviewed in this blog include:
- Tyrant: Shakespeare on Power by Stephen Greenblatt
- Richard II by A R Humphreys
- Contested Will by James Shapiro about the authorship debate
- 1599 by James Shapiro, the year in which Shakespeare wrote Henry V, As You Like It, Julius Caesar and Hamlet
- 1606: William Shakespeare and the year of Lear by James Shapiro
- Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt: a biography of Shakespeare
- The Lodger by Charles Nicholls about Shakespeare staying in a house in Cripplegate
- Shakespeare and Co by Stanley Wells about Shakespeare in the context of the other contemporary playwrights
- Shakespeare's Workmanship by Sir Arthur Quiller Couch
- The Genius of Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
- William Shakespeare: his life and work by Anthony Holden
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