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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life... -
What's in a Name?: How Historians Know Shakespeare Was Shakespeare Susan Dwyer Amussen 9781526191908
RRP: $37.03Booksplease Price: $28.80A compelling tour of Shakespeare's England that makes a powerful contribution to the 'authorship question'.How do we know Shakespeare was Shakespeare? Could a glover's son who left school at fifteen... -
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The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Lady Antonia Fraser 9780753814017 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $4.37Remember, remember, the Fifth of November ... With a narrative that grips the reader like a detective story, Antonia Fraser brings the characters and events of the Gunpowder Plot to life... -
Angels & Ducats: Shakespeare's Money & Medals Barrie Cook 9780714118215
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.43Deniers and ducats, groats and guilders, crowns and cruzados: this fun, engaging and beautifully illustrated little book explores the role of money and medals in William Shakespeare's world and work... -
Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy Carol Chillington Rutter 9781526172068
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.77Student, traveller, secretary, scoundrel, spy: introducing the maverick whose diplomacy saved Europe from war.Henry Wotton had already exhausted several lives when he arrived in Venice as England's... -
Shakespeare Scholars in Conversation: Interviews with 24 Leading Experts by Michael P. Jensen 9781476670607
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.12Twenty-four of today's most prominent Shakespeare scholars discuss the best-known works in Shakespeare studies, along with some nearly forgotten classics that deserve fresh appraisal. An... -
Nothing Remains the Same by Wendy Lesser 9780618340811
Booksplease Price: $18.88Wendy Lesser's new book is 'an inspired intellectual romp: part memoir, part criticism, though actually a bracing, larkish reinvention of them both' (Lawrence Weschler). Revisiting her favorite books... -
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 9780141396286
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $13.01'After God, Shakespeare has created most' Alexandre DumasTwo sets of identical twins, separated at sea as babies, find themselves in the same city for the first time as adults. Soon, their friends... -
Shakespeare: staging the world Jonathan Bate 9780714128245
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $35.45Authoritative, surprising, evocative and original, Shakespeare: staging the world offers a completely new approach to one of the most exceptional creative imaginations in history. While matters of... -
The Merchant of Venice: William Shakespeare by Martin Coyle 9780333668986
RRP: $62.38Booksplease Price: $54.27This collection of essays is aimed at students who are working on The Merchant of Venice and who are looking for new ways of thinking about the play and new ways of thinking about their own practice... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780141396262
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.25'Shakespeare was not of an age, but for all time' Ben Jonson A poor doctor's daughter cures the King of France and, in return, is promised marriage to any nobleman she wishes. But the proud young... -
Fourteen Days: A unique collaborative novel from a star-studded cast of writers by Margaret Atwood 9781784745455
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $30.30A BBC, Financial Times and Cosmopolitan What to Read in 2024 pickSet in a New York apartment building, Fourteen Days is an irresistibly propulsive novel with an unusual twist: each character in this... -
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Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years by John Guy 9780241963654 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $4.93History has pictured Elizabeth I as Gloriana, an icon of strength and power -- and has focused on the early years of her reign. But in 1583, when Elizabeth is fifty, there is relentless plotting... -
The Shakespeare Controversy: An Analysis of the Authorship Theories by Warren Hope 9780786439171
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20Theories stating that plays attributed to Shakespeare were in fact written by other authors have existed for more than 200 years; some theories have been ridiculed and reviled while some have... -
Pericles by William Shakespeare
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.25Pericles was Shakespeare's first full-blown tragicomedy, the precursor to The Winter's Tale, Cymbeline and The Tempest, and one of his most popular plays in the seventeenth century. This Penguin... -
John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion by Andrew Hadfield
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $29.64John Donne: In the Shadow of Religion explores the life of one of the most significant figures of the English Renaissance. The book not only provides an overview of Donne's life and work, but... -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare 9780141396422
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.25An engaging comedy of love, The Two Gentlemen of Verona deals with the conflict between friendship and romance, and features one of Shakespeare's most memorable clowns. This Penguin Shakespeare... -
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Shakespeare Theatre Company Deborah C. Payne 9781350352643
Booksplease Price: $157.42'This is a timely and valuable study, for the story of Shakespeare in America is inseparable from that of the nation's capital. It's a fascinating history, with many twists and turns, and Drew... -
On Life-Writing by Zachary Leader 9780198816447
Booksplease Price: $60.39'Life-writing' is a generic term meant to encompass a range of writings about lives or parts of lives, or which provide materials out of which lives or parts of lives are composed. These writings... -
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.25William Shakespeare's comic encore for one of his best-loved characters - the rascally Falstaff from Henry IV and Henry V - The Merry Wives of Windsor is edited by G.R. Hibbard with an introduction... -
Cymbeline by John Pitcher
RRP: $17.53Booksplease Price: $14.25One of Shakespeare's late, fantastical plays, Cymbeline considers human love and art through the thrilling wonder of the Renaissance theatre. This Penguin Shakespeare edition is edited with an... -
On Life-Writing by Zachary Leader 9780198704065
RRP: $83.83Booksplease Price: $78.92Chapter 12 of this publication is open access, available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence, offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. ... -
Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death by Gordon McMullan 9780521158008
RRP: $91.65Booksplease Price: $89.13What do we mean when we speak of the 'late style' of a given writer, artist or composer? And what exactly do we mean by 'late Shakespeare'? Gordon McMullan argues that, far from being a natural... -
Shakespeare and the Idea of Late Writing: Authorship in the Proximity of Death by Gordon McMullan 9780521863049
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $185.84What do we mean when we speak of the 'late style' of a given writer, artist or composer? And what exactly do we mean by 'late Shakespeare'? Gordon McMullan argues that, far from being a natural... -
Anti-Semitic Stereotypes: A Paradigm of Otherness in English Popular Culture, 1660-1830 by Frank Felsenstein 9780801861796
Booksplease Price: $61.44In Anti-Semitic Stereotypes, Felsenstein focuses on English cultural attitudes toward Jews during what is known as the "longer" eighteenth century, from roughly 1660 through 1830. He describes the... -
Prospero's Son: Life, Books, Love, and Theater Seth Lerer 9780226014418
Booksplease Price: $36.33This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his... -
Shakespearean: On Life & Language in Times of Disruption by Robert McCrum
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06'Enchanting' - Simon Russell Beale 'Remarkable' - James Shapiro'Wonderful . . . compulsively readable' - Nicholas HytnerWhy do the collected works of an Elizabethan writer continue to speak to us as... -
Dark Renaissance by Stephen Greenblatt 9781847927149
Booksplease Price: $27.61Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. This is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe - Shakespeare's inspiration and rival, who helped to bring England out of the... -
Literature: An Embattled Profession by Carl Woodring 9780231115223
RRP: $97.50Booksplease Price: $78.84Delving into the hotly debated issues surrounding the relevance of the humanities in today's society, this spirited and engaging book analyzes the history and current status of literary study in... -
John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs Ian Leslie 9780571376117
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $34.92'The first new Beatles story in decades - and the one that will make your heart burst.' CAITLIN MORAN'The most moving and revelatory book on Lennon and McCartney I have ever read. So joyful, so sad.'... -
The Destruction of Jerusalem in Early Modern English Literature by Beatrice Groves 9781107533851
Booksplease Price: $62.63This book explores the fall of Jerusalem and restores to its rightful place one of the key explanatory tropes of early modern English culture. Showing the importance of Jerusalem's destruction in... -
The Great White Bard: How to Love Shakespeare While Talking About Race by Farah Karim-Cooper 9780861548095
RRP: $23.38Booksplease Price: $16.05SHAKESPEARE: increasingly irrelevant or lone literary genius of the Western canon? 'Powerful and illuminating' James Shapiro, author of 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, winner of... -
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $14.61*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**No 1 Sunday Times bestseller*'Immensely enjoyable and gloriously dark' Daily ExpressHe's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a... -
The Phenomenology of Religious Belief: Media, Philosophy, and the Arts by Professor Michael J. Shapiro 9781350164307
Booksplease Price: $199.31In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief, the renowned philosopher Michael J. Shapiro investigates how art - and in particular literature and film - can impact upon both traditional interpretations... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780140714609
RRP: $23.40Booksplease Price: $16.05The acclaimed Pelican Shakespeare series edited by A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with... -
The Phenomenology of Religious Belief: Media, Philosophy, and the Arts by Professor Michael J. Shapiro 9781350243989
Booksplease Price: $62.13In The Phenomenology of Religious Belief, the renowned philosopher Michael J. Shapiro investigates how art - and in particular literature and film - can impact upon both traditional interpretations... -
Macbeth by Jo Nesbo 9780099598077
Booksplease Price: $16.46*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 50 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**No 1 Sunday Times bestseller*'Immensely enjoyable and gloriously dark' Daily ExpressHe's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a... -
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Macbeth by Jo Nesbo 9780099598060 [USED COPY]
RRP: $19.48Booksplease Price: $4.68*JO NESBO HAS SOLD OVER 60 MILLION BOOKS WORLDWIDE**No 1 Sunday Times bestseller*'Immensely enjoyable and gloriously dark' Daily ExpressHe's the best cop they've got. When a drug bust turns into a... -
Shakespeare and Biography by David Bevington 9780199586479
Booksplease Price: $59.44OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination: A Scattered Nation Eva Johanna Holmberg 9781138111011
RRP: $97.48Booksplease Price: $90.66Based on travel writings, religious history and popular literature, Jews in the Early Modern English Imagination explores the encounter between English travellers and the Jews. While literary and...