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Shakespeare: The World as Stage (Eminent Lives)
by Bill Bryson  
Powells.com Staff Pick A well-researched, well-written journey through Shakespeare's England. And who better as your affable guide than Bill Bryson? This slim volume is a perfect stocking stuffer. Recommended by Beth, Powells.com...
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Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human
by Harold Bloom Publisher Comments A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, Shakespeare: The Invention of the Human is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic Harold Bloom...
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
by Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher Comments A young man from the provinces — a man without wealth, connections, or university education — moves to London. In a remarkably short time he becomes the greatest playwright not just of his age but of all time. His works appeal to urban...
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Shakespeare's Wife
by Germaine Greer Publisher Comments Little is known about Ann Hathaway, the wife of England's greatest playwright; a great deal, none of it complimentary, has been assumed. The omission of her name from Shakespeare's will has been interpreted as evidence that she was nothing more than an...
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Shakespeare's Plays (Complete Idiot's Guides)
by Cynthia Greenwood Synopsis Here art thou real Shakespeare. The resurgence of interest in Shakespeareas playsalargely due to recent film adaptationsahas reminded the world that Shakespearean theatre is a social art form. This guide focuses on the essence of the spoken word of his...
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Shakespeare's Consuls, Cardinals, and Kings: The Real History Behind the Plays
by Dick Riley Synopsis Shakespeare was fascinated by power and its abuses, by the interplay of the personal and the political. His plays are a guide to how individuals react to the competing pressures of statecraft and personal ambition, fear and love. Indeed, our images of...
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Shakespeare the Thinker
by A D Nuttall Publisher Comments A. D. Nuttall’s study of Shakespeare’s intellectual preoccupations is a literary tour de force and comes to crown the distinguished career of a Shakespeare scholar. Certain questions engross Shakespeare from his early plays to the late...
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The Shakespeare Diaries: A Fictional Autobiography
by J P Wearing Publisher Comments Blending fact with fiction and written in diary form, this unique biography of Shakespeare encapsulates his life like never before—from his views on daily events to vivid impressions of the Elizabethan era and his role within such a world...
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Filthy Shakespeare: Shakespeare's Most Outrageous Sexual Puns
by Pauline Kiernan Publisher Comments Celebrating the Bard in all his bawdy glory, a hilarious and insightful look into the down-and-dirty sexual puns lurking in Shakespeares body of work Londons Elizabethan theaters were located in the seedy part of town, close to whorehouses but never far...
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Asimov's Guide to Shakespeare: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying the Works of Shakespeare
by Isaac Asimov Publisher Comments Shakespeare's genius is marked by his rare ability to appeal to theatergoers of all types and all levels of education. But for most modern folks, the Greek and Roman mythology and history, let alone the history of England and the geography of sixteenth...
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The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page
by Colin Butler Publisher Comments A comprehensive treatment of Shakespeare's plays in clear prose, The Practical Shakespeare: The Plays in Practice and on the Page illuminates for a general audience how and why the plays work so well.Noting in detail the practical and physical...
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Hamlet's Dresser: A Memoir
by Bob Smith
Publisher Comments The true story of a boy whose life was saved by literature, Hamlet's Dresser is a portrait of a person made whole by art. Bob Smith's childhood was a fragile and lonely one, spent largely caring for his handicapped sister, Carolyn. But at age ten, his...
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Shakespeare: The Biography
by Peter Ackroyd
Powells.com Staff Pick Ackroyd's vast and intricate knowledge of the Bard's life is complemented here with lovely, effortless language. A better biographer for such a worthy subject would be hard to find. Recommended by Callum, Powells.com...
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The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
by Ron Rosenbaum Publisher Comments In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler, he shakes up much that we thought we understood about a vital subject...
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Shakespeare's Philosophy: Discovering the Meaning Behind the Plays
by Colin Mcginn Publisher Comments Shakespeare's plays are usually studied by literary scholars and historians and the books about him from those perspectives are legion. It is most unusual for a trained philosopher to give us his insight, as Colin McGinn does here, into six of...
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The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare
by Michael Dobson Publisher Comments From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the Sonnets to misprints in the First Folio, from Shakespeare's favorite figures of speech to the staging of Othello in South Africa, The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare offers the most comprehensive...
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Roaring Boys: Shakespeare's Rat Pack
by Judith Cook Publisher Comments In the late 1580s a new kind of entertainment flowered in London: professional theatre, with its custom built playhouses, professional companies, incredible staging and, last but not least, the new writers, poets, playwrights - the roaring boys. To...
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Shakespeare's Modern Collaborators (Shakespeare Now!)
by Lukas Erne Publisher Comments What we read as Shakespeare now always comes to us in the form of a collaborative enterprise-and is decisively shaped by the nature of the collaboration-between Shakespeare and his modern editors. Contrary to much recent criticism, this book suggests...
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A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
by James Shapiro Publisher Comments An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year -- 1599 -- that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature How was Shakespeare transformed from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest...
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Essential Shakespeare #17: The Essential Shakespeare
by Ted Hughes Synopsis For that very specific and historically brief situation within the theater, Shakespeare invented a language that is somehow closer to the vital, expressive life of English, still, than anything set down since. The harder one looks at it the odder this...
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