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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare ? by James Shapiro
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.97For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir... -
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $20.141606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and... -
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Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro 9780571338894 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $5.38A BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week'Excellent.' New Statesman'Outstanding.' Irish Times'Enthralling.' Guardian'Shapiro at his best.' Daily Telegraph From the author of 1599, a fresh perspective on the... -
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1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro 9780571235797 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $7.681606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and... -
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare? by James Shapiro 9780571235766 [USED COPY]
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $7.54For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir... -
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War James Shapiro 9780571372775
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54'Tremendous.' DAVID HARE'An absorbing, necessary book.' AHAD AKHTAR'Fascinating and energising.' FINANCIAL TIMESFrom the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story... -
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1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro 9780571214815 [USED COPY]
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $4.73Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' award in 2023How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54Jonathan Bate's Soul of the Age brings us closer than ever to understanding what being Shakespeare was actually like.How did plague turn Shakespeare from a jobbing hack into a courtly poet? How did... -
Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future by James Shapiro
RRP: $36.10Booksplease Price: $28.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525522317Author James ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare Will Tosh 9781529390513
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.59'Fluent and witty . . . confident . . . highly readable'Kathryn Hughes, GUARDIAN'Lively and accomplished'Sophie Duncan, LITERARY REVIEW'Engaging, enthusiastic and informative'Philip Hensher,... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $33.44'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary... -
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $21.68Selected as a book of the year 2017 by The Times and Sunday TimesWhat is it about Adam and Eve's story that fascinates us? What does it tell us about how our species lives, dies, works or has sex?The... -
Hamlet: Globe to Globe: 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play Dominic Dromgoole 9781782116929
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54NEW YORK TIMES 100 NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017Over two full years, Dromgoole, the Artistic Director of the Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, and the Globe players toured all seven continents, and almost 200... -
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.69Longlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown'A remarkable achievement' SpectatorIn the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of a London printer's workshop. She did not leave her name, only... -
Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd 9780099437093
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $30.23Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to... -
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time by A. S. Byatt
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $15.49Unruly Times is a superlative portrait of the relationship between Wordsworth and Coleridge, and a fascinating exploration of the Romantic Movement and the dramatic events that shaped it. With a... -
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $28.60Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age.Shakespeare was a man of his time,... -
In Search Of Shakespeare by Michael Wood
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $26.73Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective... -
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Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd 9780099437093 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $4.56Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to... -
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $32.28Booksplease Price: $24.21Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work... -
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all... -
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The Biographer's Tale by A. S. Byatt 9780099283935 [USED COPY]
RRP: $30.38Booksplease Price: $3.76Phineas G. Nanson, a disenchanted graduate student, decides to immerse himself in the messiness of 'real life' by writing a biography of a great biographer. But a 'whole life' is hard to find... -
The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $17.54In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry -... -
Sonnets And Narrative Poems by William Shakespeare
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $22.40A complete and annotated edition of Shakespeare's non-dramatic verse, including the sonnets, "Venus and Adonis" and "The Rape of Lucrece".About the AuthorWilliam Shakespeare was born in... -
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Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode 9780140285925 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.39The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all... -
This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright Emma Smith 9780241361634
RRP: $20.88Booksplease Price: $17.54A THE TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'The best introduction to the plays I've read, perhaps the best book on Shakespeare, full stop' Alex Preston, Observer'It makes you impatient to see or re-read the... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $14.71Marlowe's seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus's encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of... -
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The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street by Charles Nicholl 9780141023748 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.68Booksplease Price: $4.52In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry -... -
Angels & Ducats: Shakespeare's Money & Medals Barrie Cook 9780714118215
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $14.06Deniers 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... -
The Gunpowder Plot: Terror And Faith In 1605 by Lady Antonia Fraser
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.95Remember, 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... -
The Comedy of Errors by William Shakespeare 9780141396286
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $12.67'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: $47.50Booksplease Price: $34.54Authoritative, 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... -
All's Well That Ends Well by William Shakespeare 9780141396262
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.89'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: $38.00Booksplease Price: $29.53A 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... -
Pericles by William Shakespeare
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $13.89Pericles 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... -
The Two Gentlemen of Verona by William Shakespeare 9780141396422
RRP: $15.18Booksplease Price: $13.89An 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... -
Albertans, The: 100 people who changed the province by Scott Rollans 9781551055114
RRP: $28.48Booksplease Price: $19.68In honour of Alberta's Centenary year, The Albertans profiles 100 individuals from our province who have either made a significant contribution to life in Alberta or have reached acclaim far beyond... -
Cymbeline by John Pitcher
RRP: $17.08Booksplease Price: $13.89One 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... -
The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
RRP: $18.98Booksplease Price: $13.89William 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... -
How Shakespeare Saved My Life by Jacob Ming-Trent (Folger Theatre, Washington, DC, USA.) 9781350595941
Booksplease Price: $22.04How Shakespeare Saved My Life is an autobiographical-inspired theatrical work by playwright and award-winning actor Jacob Ming-Trent.In this tour-de-force performance, Ming-Trent dares to rescue...