Robert Nye

Did Shakespeare Write Shakespeare?

Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

By Stephen Greenblatt

The Age of Shakespeare

By Frank Kermode

Katherine Duncan-Jones

As You Like Him

Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare

By Jonathan Bate

A C Grayling

Passion & Possibility

Shakespeare the Thinker

By A D Nuttall

Shakespeare Revealed: A Biography

By René Weis

Colin Burrow

Prince of Poets

Edmund Spenser: A Life

By Andrew Hadfield

John Stubbs

Politics & Poetry

Thomas Wyatt: The Heart’s Forest

By Susan Brigden

Katherine Duncan-Jones

Too Much of a Good Thing?

Shakespeare’s Restless World

By Neil MacGregor