• General Recommendations
  • Staff-Created List

HUSH Episode 137: What I Read: Brush Up Your Shakespeare

Marian Rakestraw is a writer and longtime fan of TSCPL who now lives in Liberty, Missouri. She has been a guest on the HUSH podcast before, on a You Made Me Read it episode for which she made Lissa and Miranda read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. The highlight of her Shakespearean life was seeing Kenneth Branagh as Henry V with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Many people get their first taste of Shakespeare when they read Romeo and Juliet in Freshman English. Because Shakespeare has a unique place in English language literature – being unchallenged as king – the influence of his plays has spread, and still spreads, all through everything else. Marian chose books from as many sections of the library as possible to show that. This is by no means an exhaustive list, there are many more and new things come out all the time.

Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library

16 items

  • Downloadable Audiobook[United States] : Tantor Audio : Made available through hoopla, 2008. — eAudiobook hoopla
  • Soul of the Age

    a Biography of the Mind of William Shakespeare

    Bate, Jonathan
    BookNew York : Random House, c2009. — 822.33 B BAT
  • Shakespeare

    the World as Stage

    Bryson, Bill
    BookNew York : Atlas Books/HarperCollins, c2007. — SHAKESPEARE
  • The Millionaire and the Bard

    Henry Folger's Obsessive Hunt for Shakespeare's First Folio

    Mays, Andrea E.
    UnknownNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2015. — 822.33 G MAY
  • BookNew York : Knopf, 1991. — SMILEY J
  • BookLondon ; New York : Hogarth, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, c2016. — ATWOOD M
  • BookNew York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, c2018. — CORNWELL B
  • Specifically Shakespearean are Sandman Vol. 3 Dream Country - A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Sandman Vol. 10 The Wake – The Tempest
    Graphic NovelNew York, NY : DC Comics, c1997. — GAI