These are all books I have in my personal library, organised by broad topic, and in which I can easily check or find a reference for you. Please do feel free to ask if you need something checked in one of these books.

William Shakespeare

The plays and poems

Complete Works

• Staunton, Howard (1996). The Complete Works of William Shakespeare. Wordsworth Editions Ltd. ISBN  185326895X.

The Sonnets and Poems

• Burrow, Colin, ed. (2008). The Complete Sonnets and Poems. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780199535798.
• Duncan-Jones, Katherine, ed. (2007). Shakespeare's Sonnets. The Arden Shakespeare, third series. London: Arden Shakespeare. ISBN  9781903436578.

Hamlet

• Hibbard, GR, ed. (2008). Hamlet. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780199535811.
• Thompson, Ann; Taylor, Neil, eds. (2006). Hamlet. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Arden Shakespeare. ISBN  9781904271338.
• Thompson, Ann; Taylor, Neil, eds. (2006). Hamlet: The Texts of 1603 and 1623. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Arden Shakespeare. ISBN  9781904271802.

Romeo and Juliet

• Levenson, Jill L, ed. (2000). Romeo and Juliet. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780192814968.
• Levenson, Jill L, ed. (2008). Romeo and Juliet. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780199535897.

The Tempest

• Orgel, Stephen, ed. (1987). The Tempest. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780199535903.
• Vaughan, Virginia Mason; Vaughan, Alden T, eds. (1999). The Tempest. The Arden Shakespeare, Third Series. London: Arden Shakespeare. ISBN  9781903436080.
• Gibson, Rex, ed. (2006). The Tempest. Cambridge Student Guides. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN  0521538572.
• Hulme, Peter; Sherman, William H. (2004). The Tempest: Sources and Contexts, Criticism, Rewritings and Appropriations. Norton Critical Editions. London: W. W. Norton. ISBN  9780393978193.
• Palmer, David John (1991). Shakespeare's "Tempest": A Selection of Critical Essays. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN  0333533623.
• Todd, Loreto (2003). The Tempest. York Notes Advanced. London: York Press. ISBN  0582784379.

Twelfth Night

• Wells, Stanley; Warren, Roger, eds. (2008). Twelfth Night, or What You Will. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  0199536090.
• Keir, Elam, ed. (2008). Twelfth Night. Arden Shakespeare, third series. Arden Shakespeare. ISBN  1903436990.
• Smith, Emma (2001). York Notes Advanced on "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare. Longman. ISBN  0582431506.

Henry VI

• Taylor, Michael, ed. (2008). Henry VI, Part One. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  0199537100.
• Warren, Roger, ed. (2008). Henry VI, Part Two. The Oxford Shakespeare. Ofxord: Oxford University Press. ISBN  0199537429.
• Martin, Randall, ed. (2008). Henry VI, Part Three. The Oxford Shakespeare. Ofxord: Oxford University Press. ISBN  0199537119.
• Burns, Edward, ed. (2000). King Henry VI, Part 1. Arden Shakespeare, third series. Arden Shakespeare. ISBN  1903436435.
• Knowles, Ronald, ed. (1999). King Henry VI, Part 2. Arden Shakespeare, third series. Arden Shakespeare. ISBN  9781903436639.
• Cox, John D.; Rasmussen, Eric, eds. (2001). King Henry VI, Part 3. Arden Shakespeare, third series. Arden Shakespeare. ISBN  1903436311.

Double Falsehood

• Hammond, Brean, ed. (2009). Double Falsehood. Arden Shakespeare, third series. Arden Shakespeare. ISBN  190343677X.

King Lear

• Foakes, R.A., ed. (1997). King Lear. The Arden Shakespeare, third series. Cengage Learning. ISBN  1903436591.
• Mowat, Barbara A.; Werstine, Paul, eds. (2006). King Lear. The New Folger Shakespeare Library. Washington Square Press. ISBN  0743484959.
• Wells, Stanley; Taylor, Gary, eds. (2008). The History of King Lear. The Oxford Shakespeare. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  0199535825.
• Ioppolo, Grace, ed. (2008). King Lear. Norton Critical Editions. W. W. Norton. ISBN  0393926648.
• Halio, Jay L., ed. (1996). The First Quarto of King Lear. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  0521587077.
• Halio, Jay L., ed. (2005). The Tragedy of King Lear. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  0521612632.
• Halio, Jay L., ed. (2001). King Lear: A Guide to the Play. Greenwood Guides to Shakespeare. Greenwood Press. ISBN  031331618X.
• Weis, Rene, ed. (2009). King Lear: a parallel text edition. Longman annotated texts. Longman. ISBN  1408204126.
• Griggs, Yvonne (2009). Shakespeare's King Lear: the relationship between text and film. Screen Adaptations. Methuen Drama. ISBN  1408105926.
• Muir, Kenneth; Wells, Stanley, eds. (1982). Aspects of King Lear. Aspects of Shakespeare. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  0521288134.

Secondary sources

Biography

• Ackroyd, Peter (2006). Shakespeare: The Biography. Vintage Books. ISBN  074938655X.
• Aubrey, John (2009). Barber, Richard (ed.). Brief Lives. Rochester, NY: Boydell Press. ISBN  9781843831129.
• Bryson, Bill (2008). Shakespeare: The World as a Stage. HarperPerennial. ISBN  000719790X.
• Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard (2003). Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. Vol. 1. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN  0766128229.
• Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard (2003). Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare. Vol. 2. Kessinger Publishing. ISBN  0766135918.
• Honan, Park (2000). Shakespeare: A Life. Oxford University Press. ISBN  0192825275.
• Nicholl, Charles (2008). The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street. Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN  0141023740.
• Schoenbaum, Samuel (1987). William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life. Oxford University Press, USA. ISBN  0195051610.
• Schoenbaum, Samuel (1991). Shakespeare's Lives. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN  0198186185.
• Shapiro, James (2006). 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare. Faber and Faber. ISBN  0571214819.
• Trussler, Simon (2007). Will's Will: The Last Wishes of William Shakespeare. National Archives. ISBN  1905615248.
• Wells, Stanley W. (2007). Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story. Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN  0141017139.
• Greenblatt, Stephen (2005). Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare. Pimlico. ISBN  0712600981.

Reference

• Chambers, Edmund Kerchever (2009). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 1. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780199567485.
• Chambers, Edmund Kerchever (2009). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 2. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780199567492.
• Chambers, Edmund Kerchever (2009). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 3. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780199567508.
• Chambers, Edmund Kerchever (2009). The Elizabethan Stage. Vol. 4. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN  9780199567515.
• Collier, John Payne (2006). The Diary of Philip Henslowe. Elibron Classics. Vol. 1. Adamant Media Corporation. ISBN  0543798828.
• Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard (2007). A Catalogue of the Early Editions of Shakespeare's Plays. Elibron Classics. Adamant Media Corporation. ISBN  0543717461.
• Halliwell-Phillipps, James Orchard (2007). A Catalogue of the Shakespeare-Study Books in the Immediate Library of J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps. Elibron Classics. Adamant Media Corporation. ISBN  1402140193.
• Shaughnessy, Robert (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN  9780521605809.
• Gurr, Andrew (1992). The Shakespearean Stage, 1574-1642. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  9780521422406.
• Gurr, Andrew (2004). Playgoing in Shakespeare's London. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  0521543223.
• Gurr, Andrew (2010). The Shakespeare Company, 1594-1642. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  0521172454.
• Gurr, Andrew; Ichikawa, Mariko (2000). Staging in Shakespeare's Theatres. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford University Press. ISBN  0198711581.
• Wells, Stanley; Stanton, Sarah, eds. (2002). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Stage. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  052179711X.
• Jackson, Russell, ed. (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  052168501X.

On film

• Ball, Robert Hamilton (2016) [first published 1968]. Shakespeare on Silent Film: A Strange Eventful History. Routledge Library Editions: Film and Literature. Vol. 1. London: Routledge. ISBN  978-1-138-99611-3.
• Rothwell, Kenneth S. (2000) [first published 1999]. A History of Shakespeare on Screen: A Century of Film and Television. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN  0-521-59404-9.

Miscellaneous

• Rush, Christopher (2007). Will. Beautiful Books Limited. ISBN  1905636148.
• Boydell, John; Boydell, Josiah, eds. (2005). Boydell's Shakespeare Prints: 90 Engravings. Dover Publications. ISBN  0486436519.
• Shapiro, James (1997). Shakespeare and the Jews. Columbia University Press. ISBN  023110345X.
• Shapiro, James (2010). Contested Will. Faber and Faber. ISBN  057123576X.
• Wells, Stanley (2010). Shakespeare, Sex, and Love. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  0199578591.
• Kermode, Frank (2001). Shakespeare's Language. Penguin. ISBN  9780140285925.
• Nuttall, A.D. (2008). Shakespeare the Thinker. New Haven & London: Yale University Press. ISBN  0300136293.
• Taylor, Michael (2001). Shakespeare Criticism in the Twentieth Century. Oxford Shakespeare Topics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  0198711840.

Biographers

Edmond Malone

• de Grazia, Margreta (1991). Shakespeare Verbatim: The Reproduction of Authenticity and the 1790 Apparatus. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN  0198117787.
• Martin, Peter (2005). Edmond Malone, Shakespearean Scholar: A Literary Biography. Cambridge University Press. ISBN  0521619823.
• Prior, James (1860). Life of Edmond Malone, Editor of Shakespeare: With Selections from His Manuscript Anecdotes. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 65, Cornhill. ISBN  1144932327.

James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps

• Spevack, Marvin (2001). James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps: The Life and Works of the Shakespearean Scholar and Bookman. Oak Knoll Press. ISBN  1584560517.

Christopher Marlowe

• Honan, Park (2005). Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy. Oxford University Press. ISBN  0198186959.

Thomas Middleton

• Taylor, Gary; Lavagnino, John, eds. (2010). Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN  0199580537.

Samuel Johnson

• Meyers, Jeffrey (2008). Samuel Johnson: The Struggle. Basic Books. ISBN  0465045715.