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  • Shakespeare's First Reader

    The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley

    by Jason Scott-Warren ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence; his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a guaranteed income, was the kind of which many men dreamed. Vast sums of money passed through his hands, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's First Reader

    The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley

    by Jason Scott-Warren ...
    Series series Material Texts
    Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence; his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a guaranteed income, was the kind of which many men dreamed. Vast sums of money passed through his hands, ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • 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 Wife of Bath

    A Biography

    by Marion Turner ...
    From the award-winning biographer of Chaucer, the story of his most popular and scandalous character, from the Middle Ages to #MeTooEver since her triumphant debut in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Wife of Bath, arguably the first ordinary and recognisably real woman in English literature, has obsessed readers—from Shakespeare to James Joyce, Voltaire to Pasolini, Dryden to Zadie Smith. Few ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Oxford: Son of Queen Elizabeth I

    by Paul Streitz ...
    On July 21, 1548, Princess Elizabeth Tudor gave birth to a son at Cheshunt, England. The father of the child was Thomas Seymour, her stepfather.The child was placed in the home of John de Vere, 16th Earl of Oxford and raised as Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford, better known to the world by his pen name "William Shakespeare."This is his story. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Shakespeare's First Folio

    Four Centuries of an Iconic Book

    by Emma Smith ...
    This is a biography of a book: the first collected edition of Shakespeare's plays printed in 1623 and known as the First Folio. It begins with the story of its first purchaser in London in December 1623, and goes on to explore the ways people have interacted with this iconic book over the four hundred years of its history. Throughout the stress is on what we can learn from individual copies now ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • 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 Critical Companion to John Skelton

    by Professor Sebastian I. Sobecki, John A. Burrow, John Scattergood, Julia Boffey, Nadine Kuipers, Thomas Betteridge, Professor A. S. G. Edwards, Carol Meale, David R. Carlson0, Elisabeth Dutton1, Greg Waite2, Helen Cooper3, Jane Griffiths4 ...
    John Skelton is a central literary figure and the leading poet during the first thirty years of Tudor rule. Nevertheless, he remains challenging and even contradictory for modern audiences.This book aims to provide an authoritative guide to this complex poet and his works, setting him in his historical, religious, and social contexts. Beginning with an exploration of his life and career, it goes ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Contemporary Dramatists

    Edited by Ton Hoenselaars ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    While Shakespeare's popularity has continued to grow, so has the attention paid to the work of his contemporaries. The contributors to this Companion introduce the distinctive drama of these playwrights, from the court comedies of John Lyly to the works of Richard Brome in the Caroline era. With chapters on a wide range of familiar and lesser-known dramatists, including Thomas Kyd, Christopher ... Read more

    Was $32.99 USD Now $28.69 USD

  • Literary Names

    Personal Names in English Literature

    by Alastair Fowler ...
    Why do authors use pseudonyms and pen-names, or ingeniously hide names in their work with acrostics and anagrams? How has the range of permissible given names changed and how is this reflected in literature? Why do some characters remain mysteriously nameless? In this rich and learned book, Alastair Fowler explores the use of names in literature of all periods - primarily English but also Latin, ... Read more

    $24.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Tudor Drama

    Edited by Thomas Betteridge, Greg Walker ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The Oxford Handbook to Tudor Drama is the authoritative secondary text on Tudor drama. It both integrates recent important research across different disciplines and periods and sets a new agenda for the future study of Tudor drama, questioning a number of the central assumptions of previous studies. Balancing the interests and concerns of scholars in theatre history, drama, and literary studies, ... Read more

    $43.99 USD

  • Shakespeare's Originality

    by John Kerrigan ...
    Series series Oxford Wells Shakespeare Lectures
    How original was Shakespeare and how was Shakespeare original? This lucid, innovative book sets about answering these questions by putting them in historical context and investigating how the dramatist worked with his sources: plays, poems, chronicles and prose romances. Shakespeare's Originality unlocks its topic with rewarding precision and flair, showing through a series of case studies that ... Read more

    $28.79 USD