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  • The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship

    by Rory Loughnane, Will Sharpe ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Early Modern Authorship draws together leading and emerging scholars of Shakespeare and early modern literature to consider anew how authorship worked in the time in which Shakespeare wrote, and to interrogate the construction of the Shakespeare-as-author figure. Composed of four main sections, it offers fresh analysis of the literary and cultural influences ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • King Henry VIII; or All is True

    The New Oxford Shakespeare

    by William Shakespeare, Emma Smith ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    'Men's evil manners live in brass, their virtues We write in water.' Henry VIII or All is True is Shakespeare's retelling of one of the defining periods in English history: the marriage and divorce of Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon. Written in the wake of the sudden death of Henry Stuart, King James I and VI's oldest son and heir, Shakespeare's most 'contemporary' history play offers ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Shakespeare & Collaborative Writing

    by Dr Will Sharpe ...
    Series series Oxford Shakespeare Topics
    Shakespeare and Collaborative Writing offers a rich account of Shakespeare's artistic development in, against, and beyond collaboration. We see him afresh as a poetic innovator in continual flux, and in continual artistic debt: an author shaped by others in a collaborative network of intellectual influence and dynamic interchange, and, the book argues, one that he helped substantially to create. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Michael Dobson, Stanley Wells, Will Sharpe, Erin Sullivan ...
    The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare is the most comprehensive reference work available on Shakespeare's life, times, works, and his 400-year global legacy. In addition to the authoritative A-Z entries, it includes nearly 100 illustrations, a chronology, a guide to further reading, a thematic contents list, and special feature entries on each of Shakespeare's works. Tying in with the 400th ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

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  • The Life of William Shakespeare

    A Critical Biography

    by Lois Potter ...
    Series Book 14 - Wiley Blackwell Critical Biographies
    The Life of William Shakespeare is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of Shakespeare's life and works focusing on oftern neglected literary and historical contexts: what Shakespeare read, who he worked with as an author and an actor, and how these various collaborations may have affected his writing.Written by an eminent Shakespearean scholar and experienced theatre reviewerPays particular ... Read more

    $31.00 USD

  • A Short History of English Renaissance Drama

    by Helen Hackett ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Shakespeare 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 creative fertility. This was an age when new media - popular drama and print - were seized upon avidly and inventively by a generation of exceptionally talented writers. In her sparkling new book, Helen ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Shakespeare, Court Dramatist

    by Richard Dutton ...
    Shakespeare, Court Dramatist centres around the contention that the courts of both Elizabeth I and James I loomed much larger in Shakespeare's creative life than is usually appreciated. Richard Dutton argues that many, perhaps most, of Shakespeare's plays have survived in versions adapted for court presentation, where length was no object (and indeed encouraged) and rhetorical virtuosity was ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613

    Edited by Andrew J. Power, Rory Loughnane ...
    In fourteen specially commissioned chapters by leading Shakespeare scholars from around the globe, Late Shakespeare, 1608–1613 provides an essential reappraisal of the final phase of Shakespeare's writing life. Arranged for the first time in the best-established chronological sequence, Shakespeare's last seven extant plays are discussed in detail in dedicated chapters, from Pericles to the other ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies

    How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature

    by Elizabeth Winkler ...
    An “extraordinarily brilliant” and “pleasurably naughty” (André Aciman) investigation into the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be.The theory that Shakespeare may not have written the works that bear his name is the most horrible, unspeakable subject in the history of English ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Year of Lear

    Shakespeare in 1606

    by James Shapiro ...
    Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America**, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth,** and Antony and Cleopatra. **“**The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (<strong... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • William Shakespeare

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    In this new offering from Stanley Wells, the pre-eminent Shakespearian scholar, comes a Very Short Introduction to the life and writings of the world's greatest and best-known dramatists: William Shakespeare. Looking at his early life and education, Wells explores Shakespeare's social and intellectual background and the literary traditions on which Shakespeare drew. Examining the theatres and ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare

    Edited by Margreta De Grazia, Stanley Wells ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Written by a team of leading international scholars, this Companion is designed to illuminate Shakespeare's works through discussion of the key topics of Shakespeare studies. Twenty-one essays provide lively and authoritative approaches to recent scholarship and criticism for readers keen to expand their knowledge and appreciation of Shakespeare. The book contains stimulating chapters on ... Read more

    $31.99 USD