Shakespeare Quotations


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What's So Special About Shakespeare?


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Originally published as: Shakespeare: his work and his world / illustrated by Robert Ingpen. 2001.




Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare (Anniversary Edition)


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Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.




William Shakespeare


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Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.




Truth About William Shakespeare


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A polemical attack on the ways recent Shakespeare biographers have disguised their lack of information




30 Great Myths about Shakespeare


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Think you know Shakespeare? Think again . . . Was a real skull used in the first performance of Hamlet? Were Shakespeare's plays Elizabethan blockbusters? How much do we really know about the playwright's life? And what of his notorious relationship with his wife? Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material—or its absence—can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.




Henry VI


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The Shakespeare Circle


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This collection tells the life stories of the people whom we know Shakespeare encountered, shedding new light on Shakespeare's life and times.




Contested Will


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Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.




Shakespeare's Secret


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A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare—can Hero uncover the connections?