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
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
Shakespeare in the Stratford Records
Robert Bearman
Alan Sutton Publishing, Stroud, 1994, 88pp
Detailed analysis of thirty-one documents relating to Shakespeare in the SBT archive, describing why they were written and what they tell about the times in which Shakespeare lived
Shakespeare in the Public Records
David Thomas
HMSO, London, 1985, 45pp
All of the known Shakespeare documents in the Public Record Office (now the National Archive)
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
