Suggested background reading on Schopenhauer

On the fundamental metaphysics:

Bryan Magee, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Ch 7
C. Janaway - Self and World in Schopenhauers Philosophy, Ch. 7, 8
John E. Atwell - Schopenhauer on the Character of the World: the metaphysics of will
Ch 1-3
Julian Young, Willing and Unwilling: A Study in the Philosophy of Arthur
Schopenhauer, ch.3
On Schopenhauers treatment of perception, consciousness and intellect
C. Janaway - Self and World in Schopenhauers Philosophy, Ch. 4 -6
B. Magee, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, Ch. 4-5
John E. Atwell - Schopenhauer on the character of the world : The metaphysics of
will , Ch.3
Maurice Mandelbaum, The Physiological Orientation of Schopenhauers
Epistemology in Schopenhauer: His Philosophical Achievement ed Michael Fox
On pessimism, tragedy and suffering
Georg Simmel Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, ch 5
Dale Jacquette, ed. Schopenhauer, philosophy, and the arts ch 2, 4
Janaway, C (ed) Willing and Nothingness, ch 3
Martha Nussbaum, The Transfigurations of Intoxication: Nietzsche, Schopenhauer,
and Dionysus in Nietzsche, Philosophy and the Arts, ed Kemal, Gaskell and Conway
Dylan Trigg Philosophy and Literature 28.1 (2004) 165-179 Schopenhauer and the
Sublime Pleasure of Tragedy
Dienstag, Joshua Foa 1965Tragedy, Pessimism, Nietzsche [View in PDF]
New Literary History - Volume 35, Number 1, Winter 2004, pp. 83-101 - Article

On affirmation and denial of the will:

Georg Simmel Schopenhauer and Nietzsche , ch 6
Janaway, C (ed) Willing and Nothingness, ch 6
Michael Fox, Schopenhauer on death, suicide and Self-renunciation in Fox (ed)
Schopenhauer; His Philosophical Achievement
Bryan Magee, The philosophy of Schopenhauer, ch9
On ethics, pity and suffering
John E. Atwell Schopenhauer: The Human Character, Part II

Georg Simmel Schopenhauer and Nietzsche , ch 6

Wicks, Robert 1954- Schopenhauerian Moral Awareness as a Source of
Nietzschean Nonmorality [View in PDF] - The Journal of Nietzsche Studies - Issue
23, Spring 2002, pp. 21-38 Article
Bryan Magee, The Philosophy of Schopenhauer, ch9