Books about Shakespeare (in the context of the town)

The Private Life of William Shakespeare

Lena Cowen Orlin

Oxford University Press, 2021, 430pp

Tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man, and reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables

Finding Shakespeare's New Place

Paul Edmondson, Kevin Colls and William Mitchell

Manchester University Press, Manchester, 2016, 236pp

A biography of the house that was demolished over 250 years ago, based on findings of an archaeological dig from 2010 to 2015

Skulduggery!  How Shakespeare's skull was stolen and found

Ronnie Mulryne and Mairi Macdonald

Friends of Shakespeare's Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2016, 52pp

A rattling good yarn from an anonymous pamphlet of 1894, with corrections and annotations

Shakespeare's Money

Robert Bearman

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2016, 196pp

How much did he make and what did this mean? Analysis based on surviving evidence

The Shakespeare Circle

Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells (editors)

Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2015, 358pp

Casts fresh light on Shakespeare by examining the lives of his relatives, friends, fellow-actors, collaborators and patrons

Shakespeare's Shrine

Julia Thomas

University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012, 218pp

Shakespeare found!  A life portrait at last

Stanley Wells (editor)

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2009, 118pp

In Honour of Shakespeare

Levi Fox

Jarrold and Sons, Norwich,1972, 128pp

The history and collections of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (SBT) by its distinguished and long-serving Director