Shakespeare, the Character: A Bibliography

Compiled by Lawrence Schimel, Yale University
Updated by Hardy Cook, 12/16/93; 6/7/96; 1/3/97
Updated by Christine Mack Gordon 2/3/98, 3/25/00


Fiction

Poul Anderson. A Midsummer Tempest
Rosemary Anne. Will in Love
Mike Ashley (ed.). Shakespearean Whodunits
Isaac Asimov. "The Immortal Bard."
Michael Baldwin. A Dark Lady   -. Novel.
John Bennett. Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare's Time
Gary Blackwood. The Shakespeare Stealer. Dutton Children's Books, 1998.
Young adult novel.
Jorge Luis Borges. "Everything and Nothing." A parable. In Labyrinths.
New York: New Directions, 1962.
Jorge Luis Borges. "Shakespeare's Memory." The New Yorker. April 13,
1998.
A. E. Brachvogel. Hamlet  Germany, 1876.
Caryl Brahms and SJ Simon. No Bed for Bacon. England: Michael Joseph,
1941.
Lilian Jackson Braun. The Cat Who Knew Shakespeare
Simon Brett. What Bloody Man Is That?
Simon Brett. Sicken and So Die
Georg Britting. Lebenslauf eines dicken Mannes, der Hamlet hiess
John Brophy. Gentleman of Stratford. New York and London: Harper and
Brothers, 1940.
Henrietta Buckmaster. All the Living
Anthony Burgess. A Dead Man in Deptford.1993. This is a novelisation of
the events surrounding Christopher Marlowe's death. Shakespeare appears
as a character in the later part of the book. The novel is written in
the first person, the narrator being an actor "Jack Wilson" who is
mentioned by name in a first folio folio stage direction for Balthasar
in Much Ado (2.3.37). Anthony Burgess's real name was also James (Jack)
Wilson.
Anthony Burgess. Enderby's Dark Lady.McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Anthony Burgess. "A Meeting at Valladolid." In The Devil's
Mode.Hutchinson, 1989.
Anthony Burgess. Nothing Like the Sun: A Story of Shakespeare's
Love-life. William Heinemann Ltd., 1964.
Anthony Burgess. "Shakespeare's Muse." Short story, 1971.
Philip Burton. You, My Brother. New York: Random House, 1973.
P. M. Carlson. Audition for Murder.
Imogen Clark. Will Shakespeare's Little Lad
Mary Cowden Clarke. The Girlhood of Shakespeare's Heroines, a series of
fictions about the female characters in the plays. 1850-52. Reprinted by
AMS Press, New York, 1974.
Susan Cooper King of Shadows. Young adult novel. 1999.
Stephanie Cowell. Nicholas Cooke: actor, soldier, physician, priest. NY:
Norton, 1993; Ballantine paper, 1994; German: Die Ballade des
Falcon-Piper Verlag, 1995.
Stephanie Cowell. The Physician of London. NY: Norton, 1995: German:
Piper Verlag, 1997. Winner of the American Book Award 1996.
Stephanie Cowell. The Players: a novel of the young Shakespeare. Norton:
1997; German: Piper Verlag, 1999.
Leon Daudet. Le voyage de Shakespeare. Editions de lan Nouvelle Revue
Francaise, 1896.
Barbara Denz. "The Will." In Weird Tales from Shakespeare, ed. K. Kerr
and M. H. Greenberg. 1994.
Farrukh Dhondy. Black Swan
Christina Dodd. The Greates Lover of All England
Alfred Doeblin. Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende
Gregory Feeley. "Aweary of the Sun," In Weird Tales from Shakespeare,
ed. K. Kerr and M. H. Greenberg. 1994.
Andrew Field. The lost chronicle of Edward de Vere: Lord Great
Chamberlain, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, poet and playwright William
Shakespeare
Edward Fisher. The Silver Falcon Trilogy: Shakespeare and Son, Love's
Labour Won, The Best House in Stratford
Don Freeman. Will's Quill. Children's book.
Horace Howard Furness. The Gloss of Youth: an Imaginary Episode in the
Lives of William Shakespeare and John Fletcher. Philadelphia and London:
JB Lippincott Co, 1920.
Alfred Gunther. Der junge Shakespeare. 1947. Fictional biography.
Doris Gwaltney. Shakespeare's Sister. 1997.
Konrad Haemmerling. Der Mann, der Shakespeare hiess. 1938.
Anne Hathaway-Nayne. Forever Knight: These Our Revels. 1998.
Andrea Hensgen. Hamlet redet zuvie
Ernst Hering. Sterne uber England. 1938.
G. Hicks. Shakespeare und Southampton, oder Die letzten Jahre der
grossen Koenigin. 1863.
Vladimir Holan. Nacht mit Hamlet: Ein Prosagedicht
Arno Holz. Papa Hamlet
Michael Innes. Hamlet Revenge
Alan Isler. The Prince of West End Avenue
Erica Jong. Serenissima. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987.
Faye Kellerman. The Quality of Mercy. New York: William Morrow, 1989.
Heinrich Koenig. Williams Dichten und Trachten. 1839; revised ed. 1850;
5th ed. 1875. Biographical novel.
Bruce Koscielniak. Hear, Mr. Shakespeare: Story, Illustrations, and
Selections from Shakespeare's Plays
Thomas Lennon. The Truth About Ann. 1942.
Ibi Lepscky. William Shakespeare
Julius Lester. Othello: A Novel
Fritz Leiber. No Great Magic.
Hugh Kingsmill Luna. The Return of William Shakespeare. Bobbs-Merril
Co., 1929.
Colin MacInnes. Three Years to Play
Erick Lawson Malpass. The House of Women
Eric Lawson Malpass. Sweet William
Ngaio Marsh. Light Thickens
Ngaio Marsh. Killer Dolphin
Mrs. Anna (Benneson) McMahan. Shakespeare's Christmas Gift to Queen Bess
in the year 1596. Chicago: 1907.
Sean McMahoon. The Three Seals (Young Poolbeg)
John Mortimer. Will Shakespeare. London: Hodder and Staughton, 1977.
This is the novelisation of a British TV dramaseries about the life of
Shakespeare.
Fanny Morweiser. Lalu lalula, arme kleine Ophelia: Eine unheimliche
Liebesgeschichte
Vladimir Nabokov. Bend Sinister
Robert Nye. Falstaff
Robert Nye. The Late Mr. Shakespeare: A Novel
Robert Nye. Mrs. Shakespeare
Cothburn O'Neal. The Dark Lady. New York: Crown, 1954.
Maurice J. O'Sullivan, ed. Shakespeare's Other Lives: An Anthology of
Fictional Depictions of the Bard. Jefferson: McFarland, 1997.
Robert Para. Shakespeare's Confession
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. Good Omens
Terry Pratchett. Lords and Ladies
Terry Pratchett. Wyrd Sisters. 1989.
Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch. Shakespeare's Christmas; and other stories.
New York, 1905.
Heribert Rau. William Shakespeare. 1864. Fictional biography.
Laura Resnick. "The Muse Afire," in Weird Tales from Shakespeare, ed. K.
Kerr and M. H. Greenberg. 1994.
Leon Rooke. Shakespeare's Dog. New York: Alfed A. Knopf,1981; New York:
Ecco Press, 1983, 1986.
Helmut Schrey. Mordaffaire Shakespeare. 1988. Detective novel.
Emma Severn. Anne Hathaway, or Shakespeare in Love. 1845.
Edna I. Shirley. As I Like It: A Story of Shakespeare and his Associates
Denton Jaques Snider. The Vice of Young Shakespeare: a biographic novel.
1925.
Craig Sodaro. Ghost at the Globe
Hunter Steele. Lord Hamlet's Castle
Sara Hawks Starling. Shakespeare's Sweetheart. Philadelphia: GW Jacobs
and Co., 1905.
Eduard Stucken. Im Schatten Shakespeares. 1929. Historical novel.
John Boyd Thacher. Charlecote; or, the Trial of William Shakespeare. New
York: Dodd, Mead and Co. 1895.
Ludwig Tieck. Dichterleben. 1926-32. Novella.
Ludwig Tieck. Shakeseapre-Novellen
Geoffrey Trease. Cue for Treason
Nicklas Vogt. Shakespeare's Beruf und Triumph. 1772.
Robert Watson. Whilom
Oscar Wilde. "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." Short story.
Robert Folkestone Williams. Shakespeare and His Friends. 1838.
Connie Willis. Impossible Things


Plays

David Allen. Cheapside. Current Theatre Series. ISBN 0936839686. OP
(5/98)
James Matthew Barrie. Shakespeare's Legacy. Drury Lane Theatre, London,
14 April 1916.
Edward Bond. Bingo. Northcott Theatre, Devon.
Elizabeth Boyd. Don Sancho; or, The Student's Whim. The Green Room,
Drury Lane, London, 1739.
Christopher Brooke Bradshaw. Shakespeare and Company. London, 1845.
Ivor John Carnegie Brown. William's Other Anne. London: S. French 1937.
Maurice Constantin-Weyer. Le Grand Will. Paris: Editions de la Nouvelle
France 1945.
Clemence Dane. Will Shakespeare. London: William Heinemann. Shaftsbury
Theatre, London, 17 November 1921
David Dodge and Loyall McLaren. Christmas Eve at the Mermaid. In
Shakepeare in Bohemia: Three Plays
Mrs. Louise (Ayres) Garnett. Master Will of Stratford; a midwinter
night's dream in three acts with a prologue and an epilogue. New York:
The Macmillan Co., 1916.
David Garrick. Harlequin's Invasion. Drury Lane, London, 31 December
1759.
William Gibson. A Cry of Players. NY: Atheneum, 1969.
Paul Green. The Lost Colony. Roanoke Island Waterside Theatre, Roanoke
Island, North Carolina, 4 July 1937.
E Hamilton Gruner. With Golden Quill; a cavalcade, depicting
Shakespeare's life and times. Stratford-on-Avon: The Shakespeare Press,
1936.
Frank Harris. Shakespeare and His Love. 1914?
William Robinson Leigh. Clipt Wings; a drama in five acts, being an
explanation of the mystery concerning the authorship of the works
attributed to Shakespeare, the parentage of Francis Bacon, and the
character of Shaxper New York: Thornton W Allen Co., 1930.
David Magee. What's in a name? In Shakepeare in Bohemia: Three Plays
Frank McGuinness. Mutabilitie. This play by the Irish dramatist Frank
McGuinness is set in the Munster Wars of the late 16th Century at the
castle occupied by the poet Edmund Spenser. The plot supposes that a
group of touring players led by Shakespeare has been caught up in the
war, and Shakespeare is given hospitality by Spenser.The play was first
performed in the Cottesloe auditorium of the Royal National Theatre,
London, on 14th November 1997, directed by Trevor Nunn. "William" was
played by Anton Lesser.The text is published by Faber and Faber (ISBN
0-571-19342-0)
Loyall McLaren. The Play's the Thing. In Shakepeare in Bohemia: Three
Plays
John Brent Mills, Will. (Music by Wendell Otey)
George Moore. The Making of an Immortal. New York: Bowling Green Press,
1927.
Sibley S Morrill. The Trouble with Shakespeare. San Francisco: Cadleon
Press, 1974.
Harold Rubenstein and Clifford Bax. Shakespeare: a play in five
episodes. 1921.
Tim Slover. March Tale. (Slover is a professor of theater at Brigham
Young University)
George Bernard Shaw. The Dark Lady of the Sonnets. 1910.
George Bernard Shaw. Shakespeare Vs Shaw. 1949.
Richard Penn Smith. Shakespeare in Love. 1804.
Richard Penn Smith. Houseboat on the Styx. 1928.
Charles a Sommerset. Shakespeare's Early Days; a drama in two acts.
London: TH Lacy, 1829.
Tom Stoppard. Dogg's Hamlet. Shakespeare speaks the prologue.
Karen Sunde. Dark Lady: A Full Length Drama. 1988.
Peter Whelan. The Herbal Bed. The play concerns a libel suit brought by
Shakespeare's daughter Susanna against a man who accused her of
adultery. Shakespeare is mentioned but never appears onstage.
Peter Whelan. The School of Night. London: Chappell, 1992. This play
concerns the circumstances surrounding the death of Marlowe. It was
first performed in "The Other Place" in Stratford by the Royal
Shakespeare company on 28 Oct 1992, directed by Bill Alexander.
Shakespeare appears in the play, but is cast under the name "Tom Stone."
Only as the play progresses does it become apparent that he is
Shakespeare.
David Williamson. Dead White Males.


Screenplays

Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard. Shakespeare in Love. NY: Miramax Books,
1998.


Verse

Ralph Edward Bailey. Dark Eyes and Will Shakespeare. Milwaukee, Wis.:
Hampel's Book Co., 1944.
Thomas Cooke. An Epistle to the Right Honourable The Countess of
Shaftesbury, with a Prologue and an Epilogue on Shakespeare and his
Writings. London: T Cooper, 1743.
John Gilbert Cooper. The Tomb of Shakespeare, A Vision. 1755.
Frank Fether Dally. The apothesis of Shakespeare and other poems.
Maidenstone: J. Brown 1848.
Pierre Marie Augustin Filon. Shakespeare Amoureux; scenes en vers.
Paris: Librairie Nationale, 1911.
John Alfred Langford. Poems in Memoria. 1864.
William Leighton. Shakespeare's Dream, and other poems. JB Lippincott
and Co, 1881.
William Ellery Leonard. Sonnets on the Self of William Shakespeare.
Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1916.
William Pearce. The Haunts of Shakespeare: a poem. London: D. Browne,
1778.


Unknown Medium

Franklin Harvey Head. Shakespeare's Insomia, and the causes thereof.
1886. Contains imaginary correspondance.
Landor. "Citation of William Shakespeare."