The Real Shakespeare - Retrieving the Early Years, 1564-94 by Eric Sams
$25.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
In an account of the first 30 years of Shakespeare's life, Eric Sams controverts all orthodox editions, biographics and reference books. He reveals how, in conventional Shakespeare scholarship, the playwright's youth has been concealed within a web of elaborate literary theories which misrepresent his l ...Show more
Shakespeare's First Reader - The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley by Jason Scott-Warren
$35.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Series: Material Texts | Reading Level: near fine
Among [the Folger Shakespeare Library's] voluminous collections of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century books, there survive three volumes of manuscript journals that offer a detailed record of a life lived in the 1580s and 1590s. ... These small books are packed with text, penned in a crabbed hand that p ...Show more
The Creation & Re-Creation of Cardenio: Performing Shakespeare, Transforming Cervantes by Terri Bouros & Gary Taylor (eds)
$25.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: near fine
Did Shakespeare really join John Fletcher to write Cardenio, a lost play based on Don Quixote? In 2009, the world's first academic symposium dedicated to the "lost play" was convened in New Zealand. Since then, a flurry of activity has confirmed the play's place in the literary canon. Drawing on cutting ...Show more
Shakespeare : The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
Peter Ackroyd's method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, Ackroyd not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare's life, but also imparts an amazing amount of vivid, interesting material about place, period and background. The book is packed with gems - an ...Show more
The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare by Michael Dobson; Stanley Wells
$30.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: good-very good
This is a reference text on Shakespeare's works, times, life, and afterlives. From the conjectured identity of the Dark Lady of the "Sonnets" to the misprints in the First Folio, this guide covers the plays, the poems, and their interpretation around the world over the last four centuries.
Shakespeare and the Loss of Eden - The Construction of Family Values in Early Modern Culture by Catherine Belsey
$14.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
Catherine Belsey treats Shakespeare's plays as the location of cultural history rather than as isolated works of art, and analyzes visual and written material side by side, to explore the emergence of family values. Showing that the loving family was an object of propaganda then as now, Belsey points to ...Show more
The Truth Will Out: Unmasking the Real Shakespeare by Brenda James and William D. Rubinstein
$16.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
The question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays has been the subject of furious debate among scholars for over 150 years. Everything known about the facts of William Shakespeare's life seems incompatible with the extraordinary genius of his writing. Shakespeare candidates' abound, among them Sir Francis B ...Show more
Shakespeare's Face by Stephanie Nolen
$16.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
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Reinventing Shakespeare : A Cultural History from the Restoration to the Present by Gary Taylor
$15.00 NZD
Category: Shakespeare | Reading Level: very good
Shakespeare In Print A History And Chronology Of Shakespeare Publishing by Andrew Murphy
$65.00 NZD
Category: Books About Books | Reading Level: very good