PLAYLIST
COMEDIES
All’s Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Lov’s Labour’s Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night’s Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter’s Tale
TRAGEDIES
Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Hamlet
Julius Caesar
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
HISTORIES
Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
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Nonfiction Titles
Author Guides:
Shakespeare
The Millionaire and the Bard: Henry Folger’s Obsessive
Hunt for Shakespeare’s First Folio
by Andrea E. Mays 822.3 MAYS
Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt 822.3 GREE
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
by James Shapiro 833.3 SHAP
The Shakespeare Thefts: Stealing the World’s Most
Famous Book by Eric Rasmussen 822.3 RASM
Shakespeare: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd 822.3 ACKR
William Shakespeare: Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies
Parts 1–3 LECT 822.3 SACC
College-level lectures on DVD with guidebooks.
William Shakespeare Collected Works
by William Shakespeare 822.3 SHAK
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: All 213 Plays,
Poems, Sonnets, Aprocryphal Plays Plus the Biography
by Sidney Lee E-book
Online Resources
Shakespeare's Greatest Hits
adapted by Barbara Gaines E-audio
Contains memorable theatrical scenes from his most profound
works.
www.gutenberg.org
Download FREE e-books and audios from Project
Gutenberg. Access multiple editions of Shakespeare’s
plays and poetry and find various biographical essays,
histories, and criticisms.
The Pelican Shakespeare Collection
www.bardweb.net
The Shakespeare Resource Center. Provides useful
links to Shakespeare-related sites across the web.
Why Shakespeare?: A Documentary
www.internetshakespeare.uvic.ca
Find fully annotated texts of Shakespeare’s plays
and explorations of the context of his life and
works.
edited by Stephen Orgel, et.al. 822.33 SHAK
The Arkangel Complete Shakespeare Series
CD Book SHAK
Dramatized recordings of popular works
Love all,
trust a few,
do wrong to none.
by Lawrence Bridges DVD
Lovers of Shakespeare give testimony to his power and importance in
their lives.
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Reference Services
Revised February 2016
Plays Retold
Movies Based on Plays
The Bookman’s Tale by Charles Lovett
Fool by Christopher Moore (King Lear)
As King Lear watches his kingdom descend into chaos,
the king's fool, Pocket, and Pocket's apprentice, Drool,
take it upon themselves to restore order.
FIC MOOR, E-book
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
by David Wroblewski (Hamlet)
A mute youth with a special kinship for dogs tries to
prove his uncle’s involvement in his father’s sudden
demise. FIC WROB, E-book
Juliet by Anne Fortier (Romeo & Juliet)
Julie heads to Italy and discovers that she's related to
the Juliet whom Shakespeare made famous. She also
discovers her Romeo. FIC FORT, E-book
Yellow Sky
This western adaptation of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest
stars Gregory Peck and Anne Baxter. (1948) DVD
Much Ado About Nothing
A modern retelling of the popular comedy starring Amy Acker and
Alexis Denisof. (2012) DVD, BLU
She’s the Man
Viola (Twelfth Night) is reinvented as a teenager who poses as her
twin brother in order to play on the soccer team of an all-boys
school. Amanda Bynes, Channing Tatum. (2006) DVD
West Side Story
Leonard Bernstein’s classic musical modernization of Romeo and
Juliet starring Natalie Wood. (1961) DVD, BLU
Get Over It!
Lady Macbeth’s Daughter by Lisa Klein (Macbeth)
Kristen Dunst and Colin Hanks star in this reimagining of A Midsummer Night’s Dream set in high school. (1961) DVD
Lady Macbeth tries to bear a son and win the throne of
Scotland for her husband. Meanwhile, Albia, their
daughter who was banished at birth, falls in love, learns
of her parentage, and seeks to free Scotland from tyranny. J KLEI
The Lion King
Star Crossed by Mark Schreiber (Romeo & Juliet)
Gnomeo & Juliet
Horoscope-junkie Christy Marlowe falls in love with Ben,
a well-mannered college freshman who prefers astronomy over astrology. J SCHR
An animated adaption of Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet with
James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Maggie Smith. (2011) DVD, BLU
The Tempest
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley (King Lear)
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An Iowa farmer’s will incites discord among his three
daughters, bringing dark secrets and long-held resentments to light. FIC SMIL, E-book
The Disney classic borrows elements from Hamlet as well as
Richard III. (1994) DVD, BLU, 3D BLU
Forbidden Planet
MGM's first big-budget science fiction film combined state-of-theart special effects with a storyline based on Shakespeare's The
Tempest. (1956) BLU
Shakespeare's epic play is interpreted with the gender of the main
character, Prospero, changed from male to female. Starring Helen
Mirren and Felicity Jones. (2010) DVD
A high school basketball star is led to believe his girlfriend betrayed him in this intense, loose adaptation of Othello. Starring
Julia Stiles and martin Sheen. (2001) DVD
Romeo & Juliet
Star-crossed lovers played by Orlando Bloom and Condola Rashad
secretly marry, setting into motion a chain of events neither will
survive. (2014) DVD
Falling for Hamlet by Michelle Ray (Hamlet)
Shakespeare’s Hamlet is set in the modern world of
technology and paparazzi, and on a popular television
talk show it is revealed that Ophelia has not died.
FIC RAY
Shakespeare Reimagined
Richard the III
Shakespeare’s tale of an usurping brother set in 1930s Britain,
stars Ian McKellen and Annette Benning. (1995) DVD, BLU
Henry V
Laurence Olivier's adaptation. (1944) DVD
Peter Byerly discovers an eighteenth-century study of
Shakespeare forgeries that contains a Victorian portrait resembling his late wife. The finding sparks an
obsessive search through the bard's historical period.
MYS LOVE, LT MYS LOVE, E-book, E-audio
Beatrice and Benedick by Marina Fiorato
The witty banter of Beatrice and Benedick continues in
this prequel to Much Ado About Nothing. Find out how
this love/hate relationship really started.
FIC FIOR
The Tutor: A Novel by Andrea Chapin
Speculation about the women in Shakespeare’s life is
as popular as his works. This novel tells the story of
Katharine de L’Isle, Shakespeare’s muse, and the year
they spent together. FIC CHAP, LT CHAP
Ruled Britannia by Harry Turtledove
England is conquered by the Spanish Armada and
Shakespeare becomes involved in treason.
FIC TURT
Mistress Shakespeare by Karen Harper
Based on the mysterious “Dark Lady” of Shakespeare’s sonnets and a real marriage license,
this novel imagines the life of William Shakespeare with his true love, a secret second wife.
FIC HARP, CD Book HARP
Fool’s Girl by Celia Rees
Violetta and Feste have come to London to rescue a
relic taken from a church by the evil Malvolio, and
once there, they tell their story to playwright William
Shakespeare, who turns it into a play. J REES, E-book
The Marlowe Papers by Ros Barber
Writer Christopher Marlowe shares the story of his
life, from his youth as a cobbler's son to his adult
misadventures as a spy whose talent for plays and
poetry led him to hide his identity behind the name
William Shakespeare. FIC BARB
Macbeth
Gertrude and Claudius by John Updike (Hamlet)
A “prequel” to Hamlet that addresses events before
Hamlet’s return to Denmark. FIC UPDI, E-book
A Royal Shakespeare Company production with Ian McKellen and
Dame Judi Dench. (1978) DVD 822.3 SHAK
Ran
Kurosawa's celebrated reinterpretation of King Lear, set in 16th
century Japan. (1985) BLU
Hark! by Ed McBain
A thief known as the Deaf Man plants a string of clues
taken from the plays of Shakespeare, daring the detectives of the 87th Precinct to prevent a seemingly
perfect crime. MYS FIC MCBA