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Portraits of Shakespeare by Katherine Duncan-Jones
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.91Within Shakespeare's lifetime there was already some curiosity about what the writer of such brilliant poems, sonnets and plays looked like. Yet like so much else about him, Shakespeare's appearance... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets Prof Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408128985
Booksplease Price: £24.62"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" Shakespeare's much-quoted sonnets are some of the most beautiful and moving poems in English literature. Dealing with love, beauty and the effects of time,... -
Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life by Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408125083
Booksplease Price: £17.42'[A] deeply considered and stimulating book, informed throughout by the author's intimate knowledge of the literature and society of Shakespeare's age...' Stanley Wells, TLS 'It is unquestionably the... -
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Revised Prof Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408017975
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05Shakespeare's Sonnets are universally loved and much-quoted throughout the world, while debates still rage as to the identity of the Dark Lady and how autobiographical the sonnets really are. First... -
Shakespeare: Upstart Crow to Sweet Swan: 1592-1623 by Katherine Duncan-Jones 9781408130148
Booksplease Price: £95.49An original and provocative study of the evolution of Shakespeare's image, building on the success of Duncan-Jones' acclaimed biography, Shakespeare: An Ungentle Life. Taking a broadly chronological... -
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson 9781472994820
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.37When you combine the deepest learning and the highest readability with the most plumptious story-telling, the result is A. N. Wilson ... Stephen Fry Known for his journalism, biographies and... -
Confessions: A Life of Failed Promises by A. N. Wilson
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.54Known for his journalism, biographies and novels, A. N. Wilson turns a merciless searchlight on his own early life, his experience of sexual abuse, his catastrophic mistakes in love (sacred and... -
The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-century Europe: Traditions, Texts and Performance by T. F. Earle
Booksplease Price: £85.04This book discusses the styles of performance developed in different European countries in response to prevailing conditions, drawing attention to the complex relationship between scripted text and... -
The Reinvention of Theatre in Sixteenth-century Europe: Traditions, Texts and Performance by T.F. Earle
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £42.10This book discusses the styles of performance developed in different European countries in response to prevailing conditions, drawing attention to the complex relationship between scripted text and... -
Redeeming Eve: Women Writers of the English Renaissance by Elaine V. Beilin 9780691608037
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £46.54An introduction to women writers of the English Renaissance which takes up 44 works, many as thumbnail sketches; shows how women's writing was hampered by the assumption that poets were male, by... -
As You Like It by William Shakespeare 9780141396279
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67'All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players' Rosalind, banished by her cruel uncle, travels secretly to the Forest of Arden, where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed... -
Shakespeare Scholars in Conversation: Interviews with 24 Leading Experts by Michael P. Jensen 9781476670607
RRP: £28.99Booksplease Price: £25.19Twenty-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... -
The Reckoned Expense - Edmund Campion and the Early English Jesuits. by Thomas M. McCoog
RRP: £115.00Booksplease Price: £111.92This volume forms the first modern study of Edmund Campion, the Jesuit priest executed at Tyburn in 1581, and through him focuses on a theme that has been attracting growing interest among... -
Poems: Third Series William Shakespeare 9781903436875
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.35In 1593 Shakespeare awoke and found himself famous. Lines from his comic, erotic, tragic poem Venus and Adonis were on everyone's lips.The appearance in 1594 of the darkly reflective and richly... -
The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia (The Old Arcadia) by Sir Philip Sidney
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £9.10Philip Sidney was in his early twenties when he wrote his `Old' Arcadia for the amusement of his younger sister, the Countess of Pembroke. The book, which he called 'a trifle, and that triflingly... -
A Short History of English Renaissance Drama by Helen Hackett 9781848856868
Booksplease Price: £17.19Shakespeare is a towering presence in English and indeed global culture. Yet considered alongside his contemporaries he was not an isolated phenomenon, but the product of a period of astonishing... -
The Book: A Global History by Michael F. Suarez
RRP: £46.49Booksplease Price: £32.57A concise edition of the highly acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Book, this book features the 51 articles from the Companion plus 3 brand new chapters in one affordable volume. The 54 chapters... -
Shakespeare and Biography by David Bevington 9780199586479
RRP: £25.49Booksplease Price: £23.03OXFORD SHAKESPEARE TOPICS General Editors: Peter Holland and Stanley Wells Oxford Shakespeare Topics provide students and teachers with short books on important aspects of Shakespeare... -
Shakespeare's Literary Lives: The Author as Character in Fiction and Film by Paul Franssen 9781107565210
Booksplease Price: £32.12This is an entertaining account of Shakespeare's afterlives in fiction. Paul Franssen offers the first sustained analysis of stories and films that involve the character of Shakespeare. Taking a... -
Local Attachments: The Province of Poetry by Fiona Stafford 9780199558162
Booksplease Price: £82.13How can poems so firmly attached to particular regions speak to readers far away, who might have no knowledge of the places featuring in the work? Why do writers turn to their own communities for... -
Documents of Performance in Early Modern England by Tiffany Stern 9781107656208
RRP: £47.00Booksplease Price: £45.41As well as 'play-makers' and 'poets', playwrights of the early modern period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made from separate documents. This book is the first to consider... -
Documents of Performance in Early Modern England by Tiffany Stern 9780521842372
RRP: £110.00Booksplease Price: £106.88As well as 'play-makers' and 'poets', playwrights of the early modern period were known as 'play-patchers' because their texts were made from separate documents. This book is the first to consider... -
John Aubrey: Brief Lives with An Apparatus for the Lives of our English Mathematical Writers by Kate Bennett 9780198806479
Booksplease Price: £83.27This is the first scholarly edition of Aubrey's Brief Lives since 1898, the first to include the complete text of the three Brief Lives manuscripts (including censored and deleted material, title... -
Injury Time by Clive James
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.76The publication of Clive James's Sentenced to Life was a major literary event. Facing the end, James looked back over his life with a clear-eyed and unflinching honesty to produce his finest work:... -
Hamlet in Purgatory: Expanded Edition by Stephen Greenblatt 9780691160245
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £15.57In Hamlet in Purgatory, renowned literary scholar Stephen Greenblatt delves into his longtime fascination with the ghost of Hamlet's father, and his daring and ultimately gratifying journey takes him...