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The Private Life of William Shakespeare by Lena Cowen Orlin 9780198924937
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.81The Private Life of William Shakespeare tells the story of Shakespeare as a family man in Stratford-upon-Avon. Cowen Orlin offers close readings of key archival documents associated with Shakespeare... -
Cosmosapiens: Human Evolution from the Origin of the Universe by John Hands
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.83A Daily Telegraph and TLS Book of the Year 'An audacious tour of all that science can teach us' Edward O. Wilson Specialist scientific fields are developing at incredibly swift speeds, but what... -
Astonish Me!: First Nights That Changed the World by Dominic Dromgoole 9781788166812
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.84A SUNDAY TIMES BEST FILM AND THEATRE BOOK OF 2022 'Anyone in love with the arts will fall in love with this beautifully written and fascinating book' Kathy Burke Astonish Me! is an... -
The Owl Was a Baker's Daughter by Grace Tiffany 9780063380530
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.79"Stellar historical fiction imbued with a rich sense of place."-New York Times Book Review"Witty, resilient, and fiercely intelligent, Judith emerges as a heroine for the ages. Her journey, rich in... -
The Private Life of William Shakespeare by Lena Cowen Orlin 9780192846303
RRP: £34.49Booksplease Price: £34.40A new biography of William Shakespeare that explores his private life in Stratford-upon-Avon, his personal aspirations, his self-determination, and his relations with the members of his family and... -
Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness by Rhodri Lewis 9780691166841
RRP: £48.00Booksplease Price: £40.73Hamlet and the Vision of Darkness is a radical new interpretation of the most famous play in the English language. By exploring Shakespeare's engagements with the humanist traditions of early modern... -
Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England by Yasmin Arshad 9781350058965
Booksplease Price: £112.13Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern... -
Shakespeare and Elizabeth: The Meeting of Two Myths by Helen Hackett 9780691128061
RRP: £52.00Booksplease Price: £44.55Did William Shakespeare ever meet Queen Elizabeth I? There is no evidence of such a meeting, yet for three centuries writers and artists have been provoked and inspired to imagine it. Shakespeare and... -
Imagining Cleopatra: Performing Gender and Power in Early Modern England by Yasmin Arshad 9781350248878
Booksplease Price: £29.16Shakespeare's characterization of Cleopatra may dominate the collective consciousness, but he was only one of several 16th-century writers fascinated by the enigmatic queen of Egypt. Early modern... -
The Actor and the Space by Declan Donnellan 9781839043000
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16'There is no acting, only reacting to the space.' In his bestselling book The Actor and the Target, Declan Donnellan laid out a fresh and radical approach to acting that has inspired actors around... -
Dark Renaissance: The Dangerous Times and Fatal Genius of Shakespeare's Greatest Rival by Stephen Greenblatt 9780393882278
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £19.21In repressive Elizabethan England, artists are frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners are suspect; popular entertainment largely consists of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings... -
The People's Tongue: Americans and the English Language by Ilan Stavans
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £15.30A riveting, one-of-a-kind anthology of the diversity, strangeness, and power of American English that features a tremendous array of letters, poems, memoir, jeremiads, stories, songs, documents, and... -
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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells 9780198703297 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.71Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £17.01Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
Authorial Personality and the Making of Renaissance Texts: The Force of Character Douglas S. Pfeiffer 9780197901205
Booksplease Price: £32.54How did we first come to believe in a correspondence between writers' lives and their works? When did the person of the author-both as context for and target of textual interpretation-begin to matter... -
Thomas Middleton: The Collected Works by Gary Taylor 9780199580538
RRP: £43.49Booksplease Price: £43.37Thomas Middleton (1580-1627) - 'our other Shakespeare' - is the only other Renaissance playwright who created lasting masterpieces of both comedy and tragedy; he also wrote the greatest box-office... -
Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture: A Companion to the Collected Works by Gary Taylor 9780199678730
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £47.91Thomas Middleton and Early Modern Textual Culture is not only a companion to The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton, which every scholar of Renaissance literature will find indispensable. It is also... -
Shakespeare's Binding Language by John Kerrigan 9780198757580
Booksplease Price: £65.24This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the... -
Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh by Stanley Wells 9780198769729
RRP: £14.49Booksplease Price: £11.78Great Shakespeare Actors offers a series of essays on great Shakespeare actors from his time to ours, starting by asking whether Shakespeare himself was the first--the answer is No--and continuing... -
Shakespeare's Binding Language by John Kerrigan 9780198818359
Booksplease Price: £40.01This remarkable, innovative book explores the significance in Shakespeare's plays of oaths, vows, contracts, pledges, and the other utterances and acts by which characters commit themselves to the... -
William Shakespeare and Others: Collaborative Plays by Eric Rasmussen 9781137271440
Booksplease Price: £41.43Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company, this is the first edition for over a hundred years of the fascinatingly varied body of plays that has become known as 'The Shakespeare... -
Boswell's Enlightenment by Robert Zaretsky 9780674368231
RRP: £35.95Booksplease Price: £30.26Throughout his life, James Boswell struggled to fashion a clear account of himself, but try as he might, he could not reconcile the truths of his era with those of his religious upbringing. Boswell's... -
Dark Renaissance by Stephen Greenblatt 9781847927132
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Poor 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... -
Walking Shadow: Love, Loss and Shakespeare Greg Doran 9781526694379
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23'A deeply involving, humane book' ROWAN WILLIAMS'Intimate, humorous, yet profoundly moving' STANLEY WELLS'Deeply enjoyable' HARRIET WALTERA compelling blend of memoir, travelogue and investigation,... -
Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education by Martha C. Nussbaum 9780674179493
RRP: £30.95Booksplease Price: £25.20How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and...