![]() ![]() This selective bibliography aims to provide the reader with an introductory guide through the enormous amount of material available that tries to explain why Shakespeare’s work matters and is relevant in the 21st century. Literary and theater critics, historians, cultural commentators, journalists, major authors, and philosophers have engaged in a variety of ways with his work, studying and analyzing an enormous range of themes: editorial and textual issues, feminism, psychoanalysis, politics, patronage, performance history, and film studies. Over the course of his career, he wrote 154 sonnets, forty plays that are known about (not all of which are extant), two narrative poems, and had a major influence on the development of English as a world language. His poetry, plays, and life continue to fascinate academics, theater practitioners, and the general public over four hundred years after his death. ![]() ![]() ![]() William Shakespeare (b. 1564–d. 1616) is widely regarded as the greatest writer and dramatist of all time. ![]()
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