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Formalist Shakespeare criticism is the most dynamic part of Shakespeare in the 20th century. Formalist Shakespeare criticism advocates the independence of literary criticism, conducts research with the help of concepts such as irony, metaphor, imagery, symbolism, archetypes, deconstruction, and close reading, and makes theoretical attempts within literary works. This book divides formalist Shakespeare into six genres: New Criticism, Imagery Criticism, Symbolic Criticism, Archetypal Criticism, Deconstructionist Shakespeare Criticism, and Close Reading Shakespeare Criticism. It selects classic Shakespeare criticism works from each genre for in-depth interpretation, reveals its characteristics, and uses point-by-point to cover the whole, in order to shed some light on the construction of poetics. The beauty of language, structure, and characters are important aesthetic principles in Shakespeare's artistic creation. The classics of formalist Shakespeare criticism focus on these issues and conduct in-depth research on Shakespeare's works, and contain profound humanistic concerns in formal aesthetic criticism.