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Shakespeare and the Jews by James Shapiro
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.69First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the significance of Jewish questions in Shakespeare's... -
Shakespeare in a Divided America by James Shapiro
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £6.48A 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... -
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare ? by James Shapiro
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51For 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: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.511606: 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... -
1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.51Winner 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... -
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro 9781416541653
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416541653Author James ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon... -
A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 by Professor James Shapiro 9780060088743
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060088743Author Professor James ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint HarperCollins... -
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Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare ? by James Shapiro 9780571235773 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.66For 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 by James Shapiro 9780571372768
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.80From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politicians that engineered its downfall.1935. As part of... -
The Playbook: A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War James Shapiro 9780571372775
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23'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... -
The Playbook: A Story of Theater, Democracy, and the Making of a Culture War by James Shapiro 9780593490204
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £21.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593490204Author James ShapiroFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint The Penguin PressPublisher... -
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1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare by James Shapiro 9780571214815 [USED COPY]
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £2.49Winner 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... -
Oberammergau: The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play by Professor James Shapiro 9780375708527
RRP: £17.00Booksplease Price: £13.33Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375708527Author James ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher... -
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Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate 9780141015866 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £4.07Jonathan 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... -
Soul of the Age: The Life, Mind and World of William Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Jonathan 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: £19.00Booksplease Price: £15.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525522317Author James ShapiroFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan 9781529365160
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Witty and scholarly'JONATHAN BATE, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Thrilling'GUARDIAN'Illuminating . . . as vital and provocative as the character herself'LITERARY REVIEW'Buoyant'TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT'An... -
Searching for Juliet: The Lives and Deaths of Shakespeare's First Tragic Heroine by Sophie Duncan
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.60'Invigorating ... engaging ... thrilling' Samantha Ellis, GUARDIAN'An astonishing tour-de-force . . . Juliet has found the biographer she deserves' Marion TurnerA cultural, historical, and literary... -
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare by Will Tosh 9781529390476
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.62'Fluent and witty . . . confident . . . highly readable'Kathryn Hughes, GUARDIAN'Brilliant - so vivid and so sharp, fantastically clever and consistently fascinating'KATHERINE RUNDELL, author of... -
Straight Acting: The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare Will Tosh 9781529390513
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.26'Fluent and witty . . . confident . . . highly readable'Kathryn Hughes, GUARDIAN'Lively and accomplished'Sophie Duncan, LITERARY REVIEW'Engaging, enthusiastic and informative'Philip Hensher,... -
The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for the Rebel Pamphleteers by Joseph Hone
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49Longlisted 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... -
The Rise and Fall of Adam and Eve by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.41Selected 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... -
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Stephen 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,... -
Hamlet: Globe to Globe: 193,000 Miles, 197 Countries, One Play Dominic Dromgoole 9781782116929
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23NEW 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... -
Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd 9780099437093
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91Dickens 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... -
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Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd 9780099437093 [USED COPY]
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £2.40Dickens 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... -
In Search Of Shakespeare by Michael Wood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Almost 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... -
King Lear in Brooklyn by Michael Pennington 9781783193264
Booksplease Price: £31.83An original approach to Shakespeare's King Lear: Michael Pennington takes us on a fascinating journey through the play from the point of view of Lear himself and others. Although Michael also writes... -
Unruly Times: Wordsworth and Coleridge in Their Time by A. S. Byatt
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.15Unruly 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... -
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In Search Of Shakespeare by Michael Wood 9780563521419 [USED COPY]
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £2.51Almost 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... -
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The 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: £15.99Booksplease Price: £1.98Phineas 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23In 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 -... -
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Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode 9780140285925 [USED COPY]
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.31The 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... -
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.10Peter 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... -
The Complete Plays by Christopher Marlowe
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £7.74Marlowe'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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £2.38In 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 -... -
This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World's Greatest Playwright Emma Smith 9780241361634
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A 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... -
Sonnets And Narrative Poems by William Shakespeare
RRP: £15.00Booksplease Price: £11.43A 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... -
Lady Romeo: The Radical and Revolutionary Life of Charlotte Cushman, America's First Celebrity by Tana Wojczuk 9781501199530
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £11.85Finalist for a Lambda Literary Award Finalist for the Publishing Triangle's Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction Finalist for the Marfield Prize For fans of Book of Ages and American Eve, this...