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

Fiction

Poul Anderson. _A Midsummer Tempest_.
Rosemary Anne. _Will in Love_.
Mike Ashley (ed.). _Shakespearean Whodunits_.
Isaac Asimov. "The Immortal Bard."
John Bennett. _Master Skylark: A Story of Shakespeare's Time_.
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.
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.
Andrea Hensgen. _Hamlet redet zuviel_.
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_.
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. _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_.
Tim Slover. _March Tale_.
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 Sterling. _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_.
Robert Folkestone Williams. _Shakespeare and His Friends_. 1838.
Connie Willis. _Impossible Things_.


Plays

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 Lover_. 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.
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.


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 correspondences.
Landor. "Citation of William Shakespeare."