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  • The Shakespeare Trail

    A Journey into Shakespeare's England

    by Zoe Bramley ...
    It has been 400 years since William Shakespeare, the man heralded as the greatest writer in the English language and England’s national poet, died. Shakespeare has made a profound mark on our culture and heritage. Yet many aspects of his life remain in the shadows, and many places throughout England have forgotten their association with him. This fascinating book takes the reader from the place of ... Read more

    $21.69 CAD

  • William Shakespeare in 100 Facts

    by Zoe Bramley ...
    Series series In 100 Facts
    William Shakespeare is the world’s best-loved playwright. His work is performed all over the globe and his life still tantalises us with its mysteries. The man who created classics such as Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth lived in the most turbulent yet thrilling era of English history. Shakespeare witnessed the flowering of English Renaissance drama and the construction of iconic playhouses such as ... Read more

    $8.19 CAD

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  • Shakespeare's London

    Everyday Life in London 1580-1616

    by Stephen Porter ...
    Everyday life in the teeming metropolis during William Shakespeare's time in the city. Shakespeare's London was a bustling, teeming metropolis that was growing so rapidly that the government took repeated, and ineffectual, steps to curb its expansion. From contemporary letters, journals and diaries, a vivid picture emerges of this fascinating city, with its many opportunities and also its ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD

  • The Lodger Shakespeare

    His Life on Silver Street

    by Charles Nicholl ...
    In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In The Lodger Shakespeare, Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bard's life. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of sources, Nicholl creates a compellingly detailed account ... Read more

    Was $18.99 CAD Now $6.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Who Wrote Shakespeare's Plays?

    by Professor William D. Rubinstein ...
    From an obscure family in a small provincial town, Shakespeare had no formal education after the age of thirteen. His surviving handwriting consists of six signatures on legal documents. His will makes no mention of his books or manuscripts. His two daughters were illiterate. There is, in other words, a seemingly enormous gap between the meagreness of Shakespeare's background and his achievements ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD

  • Shakespeare

    Poet and Citizen

    by Victor Kiernan ...
    'This book rests on a lifetime's thinking about history. It helps us see Shakespeare in “a more realistic light”.'Times Literary SupplementAlthough Shakespeare is rightly celebrated for the continued relevancy of his plays and poetry today, we too often lose sight of the wider historical context which shaped his work. In Shakespeare: Poet and Citizen, Victor Kiernan shows that Shakespeare was ... Read more

    $27.39 CAD

  • Making Publics in Early Modern Europe

    People, Things, Forms of Knowledge

    Edited by Bronwen Wilson, Paul Yachnin ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture
    The book looks at how people, things, and new forms of knowledge created "publics" in early modern Europe, and how publics changed the shape of early modern society. The focus is on what the authors call "making publics" — the active creation of new forms of association that allowed people to connect with others in ways not rooted in family, rank or vocation, but rather founded in voluntary ... Read more

    $67.32 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Mistress

    The Mystery of the Dark Lady Revealed

    by Aubrey Burl ...
    She is a mystery without a name. The years when she brought delight, desire and disgust to Shakespeare came after the Spanish Armada of 1588 and before the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a long, unsettled period of theatre, music, warfare and brutal death. Those years were dramatically rich. Shakespeare wrote plays including Romeo & Juliet, Twelfth Night, and King Lear. And he met the 'Dark Lady'. She ... Read more

    $10.89 CAD

  • Complete Works Of William Shakespeare (37 Plays + 160 Sonnets + 5 Poetry Books + 150 Illustrations)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    This ebook contains William Shakespeare's complete works. This edition has been professionally formatted and contains several tables of contents. The first table of contents (at the very beginning of the ebook) lists the titles of all novels included in this volume. By clicking on one of those titles you will be redirected to the beginning of that work, where you'll find a new TOC that lists all ... Read more

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  • A World Lit Only by Fire

    The Medieval Mind and the Renaissance - Portrait of an Age

    by William Manchester ...
    An absorbing history of the Middle Ages from the acclaimed historian William Manchester, author of The Last Lion**.**From tales of chivalrous knights to the barbarity of trial by ordeal, no era has been a greater source of awe, horror, and wonder than the Middle Ages. In handsomely crafted prose, and with the grace and authority of his extraordinary gift for narrative history, William Manchester ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Unsettled Toleration

    Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage

    by Brian Walsh ...
    Unsettled Toleration: Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage historicizes and scrutinizes the unstable concept of toleration as it emerges in drama performed on the Elizabethan and Jacobean stages. Brian Walsh examines plays by Shakespeare and his contemporaries that represent intra-Christian conflict between mainstream believers and various minorities, analyzing the sometimes explicit, ... Read more

    $107.99 CAD

  • Reformation

    Europe's House Divided 1490-1700

    by Diarmaid MacCulloch ...
    The Reformation was the seismic event in European history over the past 1000 years, and one which tore the medieval world apart. Not just European religion, but thought, culture, society, state systems, personal relations - everything - was turned upside down. Just about everything which followed in European history can be traced back in some way to the Reformation and the Counter-Reformation ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD