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Snapshot taken from Amazon's Top 100 Best Sellers in Shakespearean Literary Criticism

  • Hamlet (No Fear Shakespeare) book cover
  • Shakespeare: The Complete Collection book cover
  • History Play: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe book cover
  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition) book cover
  • The Shakespeare Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained book cover
  • Death By Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts book cover
  • Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom: The True History of Shakespeare and Elizabeth book cover
  • Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare) book cover
  • Shakespeare: The Biography book cover
  • Take Arms against a Sea of Troubles: The Power of the Reader's Mind over a Universe of Death book cover
  • Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics book cover
  • Julius Caesar (No Fear Shakespeare) book cover
  • Othello (No Fear Shakespeare) book cover
  • Shakespeare After All book cover
  • Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives Series) book cover
  • How to Think like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education (Skills for Scholars) book cover
  • A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 book cover
  • Macbeth (No Fear Shakespeare) book cover
  • Macbeth SparkNotes Literature Guide (SparkNotes Literature Guide Series Book 43) book cover
  • William Shakespeare : Complete Collection (37 plays, 160 sonnets and 5 Poetry...) book cover
  • Brightest Heaven of Invention: A Christian Guide To Six Shakespeare Plays book cover
  • The Complete Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Poetry, Plays, Literary Essays, Lectures, Autobiography and Letters… book cover
  • Merchant of Venice (No Fear Shakespeare) book cover
  • William Shakespeare : Complete Collection book cover
  • Shakespeare: The World as a Stage book cover
  • Shakespeare and Gender: Sex and Sexuality in Shakespeare’s Drama book cover
  • How to Teach Your Children Shakespeare book cover
  • Twelfth Night (No Fear Shakespeare) book cover
  • Shakespeare and Feminist Theory (Shakespeare and Theory) book cover
  • How the Classics Made Shakespeare (E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series) book cover
  • Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Vol. 1 book cover
  • Shakespeare Lexicon and Quotation Dictionary, Vol. 2 book cover
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Arden Performance Editions book cover
  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works book cover
  • Newly Discovered Works by "William Shake-Speare": a.k.a. Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford book cover
  • King Lear (No Fear Shakespeare) book cover
  • The De Vere Code: Proof of the true author of SHAKE-SPEARE'S SONNETS book cover
  • Romeo & Juliet The Graphic Novel - Quick Text book cover
  • The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works book cover
  • The Shakespearean World (Routledge Worlds) book cover
  • Coriolanus (Folger Shakespeare Library) book cover
  • Hamlet (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) book cover
  • Shakespeare and Religion (Arden Critical Companions) book cover
  • Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series) book cover
  • Shakespeare, An Existential View book cover
  • A Guide to Macbeth (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 2) book cover
  • Hamlet: Revised Edition (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series) book cover
  • A Guide to The Tempest (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 3) book cover
  • A Guide to King Lear (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 10) book cover
  • Don't Read Poetry: A Book About How to Read Poems book cover
  • A Guide to Hamlet (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 8) book cover
  • A Guide to Twelfth Night (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 7) book cover
  • A Guide to A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 6) book cover
  • A Guide to Henry IV, Part 1 (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 9) book cover
  • A Guide to As You Like It (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 5) book cover
  • A Guide to Romeo and Juliet (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 4) book cover
  • A Guide to Antony and Cleopatra (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 1) book cover
  • A Guide to The Comedy of Errors (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 16) book cover
  • A Guide to Othello (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 12) book cover
  • A Guide to Julius Caesar (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 11) book cover
  • A Guide to The Winter's Tale (The Shakespeare Handbooks Book 15) book cover
  • The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (Belknap) book cover
  • This Is Shakespeare book cover
  • Secrets of Acting Shakespeare: The Original Approach book cover
  • The Tempest (No Fear Shakespeare) book cover
  • Shakespeare Beyond Doubt?: Exposing an Industry in Denial book cover
  • Shakespeare's Use of the Arts of Language book cover
  • Macbeth: By William Shakespeare book cover
  • The Shipment and Lear book cover
  • Richard II (Penguin Shakespeare) book cover
  • King Lear (Shakespeare Made Easy) book cover
  • Stories of Shakespeare's Comedies book cover
  • Berryman's Shakespeare: Essays, Letters, and Other Writings book cover
  • Shakespeare's Roman Trilogy: The Twilight of the Ancient World book cover
  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare (Cambridge Companions to Literature) book cover
  • The Compleat Works Of Willm Shkspr (Abridged) - Acting Edition book cover
  • CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's King Lear (Cliffsnotes Literature Guides) book cover
  • A Midsummer Night's Dream: Critical Essays (Shakespeare Criticism) book cover
  • Introducing Shakespeare: A Graphic Guide (Introducing...) book cover
  • Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays book cover
  • The Shakespeare Fraud: The Politics behind the pen book cover
  • The Genius of Shakespeare book cover
  • Hamlet: A Norton Critical Edition & International Student Edition (Second Edition) (Norton Critical Editions) book cover
  • William Shakespeare: The Complete Works : Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, Caesar and Cleopatra, King Lear,The Tempest… book cover
  • Shakespeare: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions) book cover
  • Macbeth: Third Series (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series) book cover
  • The Merchant of Venice: A Critical Reader (Arden Early Modern Drama Guides) book cover
  • The Hidden Machinery: Essays on Writing book cover
  • The Shakespeare Code book cover
  • Shakespeare and Modern Culture book cover
  • Troilus and Cressida: Third Series, Revised Edition (The Arden Shakespeare Third Series) book cover
  • CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Macbeth (Cliffsnotes Literature Guides) book cover
  • CliffsNotes on Shakespeare's Hamlet (Cliffsnotes Literature Guides) book cover
  • Shakespeare's Freedom (The Rice University Campbell Lectures) book cover
  • Shakespeare By Another Name book cover
  • Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth (New Penguin Shakespeare Library) book cover
  • Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions book cover
  • Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare book cover
  • The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 book cover
  • Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns book cover
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Authors

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8 authors with more than one book:

  • 18 - William Shakespeare
  • 14 - Alistair McCallum
  • 10 - SparkNotes
  • 3 - Stephen Greenblatt
  • 3 - Jonathan Bate
  • 2 - Marjorie Garber
  • 2 - Bill Bryson
  • 2 - Alexander Schmidt

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Series & Titles

Standalone vs Series

Popular Words

Words used 3 times or more:

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Words used 3 times or more excluding series name:

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Series in the chart

  • The Shakespeare Handbooks (Book 2, Book 3, Book 10, Book 8, Book 7, Book 6, Book 9, Book 5, Book 4, Book 1, Book 16, Book 12, Book 11, Book 15)
  • SparkNotes Literature Guide Series (Book 43)

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