Author:William Shakespeare

The Shakespeare Bibliographic page includes lots of excerpts and abridgments of works of his, but these works, in general, can't stand on their own as speculative fiction. E.g., these include short quotes referring to ghosts, demons, etc., but don't include such characters in any substantive way. The only works which we think of as having substantive speculative fiction are: Hamlet (the ghosts); Macbeth (the witches); Tempest (the spirit Ariel, trapped in a tree by a witch, released by the magician Prospero, and serving him); A Winter's Tale (Hermione dies, but is resurrected in a statue of her); and A Midsummer Night's Dream (fairies throughout). 

Only these works will be attempted to be included here in a somewhat complete manner. Of these, only Hamlet and A Midsummer Night's Dreams were published as independent plays prior to the 18th century, and the bibliography includes all of those publications as Chapterbooks.

The "Collections" shown as "Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies" are what are traditionally referred to as "First Folio", "Second Folio", "Third Folio", and "Fourth Folio". These correspond to all collections of Shakespeare's plays up through 1685. For these works, we include only a partial contents list, limited to those five works shown above.

The bibliography currently includes all dated publications of these works as listed in WorldCat up through 1699 except:  Non-English editions; Versions in books by the title "Dryden's Plays", those alterations by John Dryden; Continuing work on chapterbook versions of Macbeth from 1675-1699. 