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1	Shakespeare: The World as Stage more books like this by Bill Bryson add to wishlist In this new installment in the critically acclaimed Eminent Lives series, Bryson explores the life and work of Shakespeare in a typically Brysonian fashion. That is to say, he has crafted a travelogue of sorts, narrating his quest for the Bard. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare: An Introduction with Documents more books like this by Russ McDonald, Ph.D. (Editor) add to wishlist This text provides a combination of well written, up-to-date background information and selections from primary documents. "The Bedford Companion to Shakespeare" introduces students to the topics most important to the study of Shakespeare in their full historical and cultural context. This second edition contains many new documents, particularly ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| SVS
3	The Shorter Pepys more books like this by Samuel Pepys (Photographer), Robert Latham (Editor) add to wishlist Pepys's accounts of life in Restoration London offer a fascinating view of the society and culture of that period. He witnessed some of the most significant events of his time, including the return of Charles II in 1660, the Great Plague in 1665, the Fire of London in 1666, and the burning of the English fleet by the Dutch in 1667. Although all ... see all copies from $6.82! new only from $49.00! \| first editions
4	Bard of Avon: The Story of William Shakespeare more books like this by Diane Stanley add to wishlist How did a man from an unremarkable family cr eate a legacy of plays that are performed regularly everywhe re? There will always be mysteries about William Shakespeare , but what is known of his life, his times, and his theatre makes an exciting story. ' see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.08! \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Penguin Book of Renaissance Verse: 1509-1659 more books like this by David Norbrook (Editor), Various, Henry Woudhuysen (Editor) add to wishlist The era between the accession of Henry VIII and the crisis of the English republic in 1659 formed one of the most fertile epochs in world literature. This anthology offers a broad selection of its poetry, and includes a wide range of works by the great poets of the age - notably Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Sepnser, John Donne, William Shakespeare ... see all copies from $3.12! new only from $12.50! \| SVS
6	Palgrave's Golden treasury. more books like this by Francis Turner Palgrave (Compiled by) add to wishlist Originally published in 1861, Palgrave's Golden Treasury quickly established itself as the most popular selection of English poems. Today it stands as a testament to the richness of our finest native poetic writing from Spenser, Shakespeare, and Wordsworth, to Tennyson, Yeats, Eliot, and Betjeman. This edition includes a sixth book, prepared by ... see all copies from $3.00! new only from $13.41! \| first editions \| SVS
7	The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth-Century Verse more books like this by Emrys Jones (Editor) add to wishlist The original "Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse" was published nearly 60 years ago, in 1932. The literary taste that informed it was more Edwardian or late Victorian than modern, and in particular it reflected the lyricizing preferences of Palgrave's influential "Golden Treasury" (1861). In so doing, an image of the Elizabethan period as one ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.19! \| first editions \| SVS
8	William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life more books like this by S Schoenbaum add to wishlist This new edition has been brought up to date with the latest Shakespearian scholarship. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.47! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Shakespeare more books like this by Peter Chrisp add to wishlist This Eyewitness guide to Shakespeare, one of the world's greatest playwrights, is intended as a resource for pupils and a useful companion to Shakespeare's complete works. It contains over 200 photographs and 50 illustrations, and includes the latest research on Shakespeare's life and works. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.21!
10	Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy more books like this by Park Honan add to wishlist Christopher Marlowe: Poet & Spy is the most thorough and detailed life of Marlowe since John Bakeless's in 1942. It has new material on Marlowe in relation to Canterbury, also on his home life, schooling, and six and a half years at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and includes fresh data on his reading, teachers, and early achievements, ... see all copies from $2.09! new only from $5.98! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	George Herbert and the Seventeenth-Century Religious Poets more books like this by George Herbert, Mario A Di Cesare (Editor) add to wishlist This volume presents the major works of five poets-George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Andrew Marvell, Henry Vaughan, and Thomas Traherne. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.41! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Shakespeare: The Biography more books like this by Peter Ackroyd add to wishlist While literary biography Peter Ackroyd breaks little new ground here, he successfully and beautifully amalgamates what scholars know about the enigmatic and forever popular playwright, mining the plays and sonnets for insight into Shakespeare's personality and personal history, and bringing to life the colorful milieu in which he lived and wrote. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.48! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Essays more books like this by Francis Bacon add to wishlist One of the major political figures of his time, Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626) served in the court of Elizabeth I and ultimately became Lord Chancellor under James I in 1617. A scholar, wit, lawyer and statesman, he wrote widely on politics, philosophy and science - declaring early in his career that 'I have taken all knowledge as my province'. In ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.44! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Lives of the English poets more books like this by Samuel Johnson add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: BLACKMOKE. Sib Richard Blackmobb is one of those men whose writings have attracted much notice, but of whose life and manners very little has been communicated, and ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $17.11! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Shakespeare's Imagery and What It Tells Us more books like this by Caroline Frances Eleanor Spurgeon add to wishlist Caroline Spurgeon's pioneer study of the imagery of Shakespeare's plays shows how much light can be thrown on Shakespeare's own mind and thought and on the themes and characters of the plays by a detailed examination of his imagery. At the same time she contrasts Shakespeare with other dramatists of his time, including Marlowe, Bacon, Ben Jonson ... see all copies from $3.60! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Shakespeare's Language: A Glossary of Unfamiliar Words in His Plays and Poems more books like this by Eugene F Shewmaker add to wishlist Rife with arcane references, unfamiliar expressions, and words of his own invention, Shakespeare's texts can intimidate even the most learned reader. "Shakespeare's Language, Second Edition" is a comprehensive and straightforward guide to the ornate and sometimes bewildering language that may be unfamiliar to today's readers of Shakespeare's plays ... see all copies from $2.22! new only from $17.14! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose Fiction more books like this by Paul Salzman (Editor) add to wishlist These five works - George Gascoigne's The Adventures of Master F. J; John Lyly's Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit; Robert Greene's Pandosto. The Triumph of Time; Thomas Nashe's The Unfortunate Traveller and Thomas Deloney's Jack of Newbury - represent Elizabethan fiction at its best. The Adventures of Master F. J. is a comedy of manners with a sting ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.39! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Think on My Words: Exploring Shakespeare's Language more books like this by Professor David Crystal add to wishlist 'You speak a language that I understand not.' Hermione's words to Leontes in The Winter's Tale are likely to ring true with many people reading or watching Shakespeare's plays today. For decades, people have been studying Shakespeare's life and times, and in recent years there has been a renewed surge of interest into aspects of his language. So ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary more books like this by Samuel Pepys add to wishlist Pepys's diary has long been recognized as one of the most remarkable in the English language, but it has been impossible until recent times to print it as he wrote it. Little academic work had been done on it and legal restrictions prevented the publication of its frankest passages in which Pepys describes his vigorous love life. In the pages ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.98! \| first editions
20 view cover	Who Was William Shakespeare? more books like this by C Mannis add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
21 view cover	Shakespeare's Words: A Glossary and Language Companion more books like this by Professor David Crystal, Bette Greene add to wishlist A vital resource for scholars, students and actors, this book contains glosses and quotes for over 14,000 words that could be misunderstood by or are unknown to a modern audience. Displayed panels look at such areas of Shakespeare's language as greetings, swear-words and terms of address. Plot summaries are included for all Shakespeare's plays and ... see all copies from $10.82! new only from $10.82! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	British Literature 1640-1789: An Anthology more books like this by Professor Robert DeMaria, Jr. (Editor) add to wishlist This is a collection of writings from the period between the English "Rebellion" and the French Revolution. The anthology includes the works of many authors, and provides a wide variety of genres, forms, opinions, viewpoints and styles. Extensive coverage is given to literature that concerns issues of gender, sexuality, health, slavery, ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.90! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Of Empire more books like this by Francis Bacon add to wishlist The perfect books for the true book lover, Penguinas Great Ideas series features twelve more groundbreaking works by some of historyas most prodigious thinkers. Each volume is beautifully packaged with a unique type-driven design that highlights the bookmakeras art. Offering great literature in great packages at great prices, this series is ideal ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.69! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Amazing Grace: An Anthology of Poems about Slavery, 1660-1810 more books like this by James G Basker add to wishlist This collection of more than 400 poems demonstrates an enormous range of styles--verse dramas, odes, lyric poetry, sonnets--from writers as diverse as Daniel Defoe and the astronomer Benjamin Banneker, along with eloquent works by slaves and former slaves. see all copies from $3.60! new only from $29.12! \| first editions
25 view cover	Alias Shakespeare: Solving the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time more books like this by Joseph Sobran add to wishlist This text claims that the link between William Shakespeare and the works published under his name is weak, and it argues instead that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford and a literary Elizabethan courtier, is a far more plausible author than Shakespeare, the obscure country actor. see all copies from $4.14! new only from $16.60! \| signed copies \| first editions

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