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The Annotated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, A. L. RowseISBN 0517436035 (0-517-43603-5)
Hardcover, Greenwich House
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The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances; Completeby William Shakespeare, A. L. Rowse, Hans PrintzISBN 0517665557 (0-517-66555-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Arbella: England's Lost Queenby Sarah GristwoodISBN 0618341331 (0-618-34133-1)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Arbella: England's Lost Queen'Book summary:In this U.K. bestseller, Lady Arbella Stuart emerges as a most contemporary royal, a young woman determined to shape her own destiny in the midst of her plot-ridden world.[via]
Arbella was niece to Mary Queen of Scots and cousin to Elizabeth I who indicated that the teenage Arbella was to be heir to her throne. A critical pawn in the struggle for succession, particularly during the long, tense period when Elizabeth lay dying, the young Arbella endured twenty-seven years of isolation at the grand Hardwick Hall, held by her scheming and powerful grandmother.
The accession of James I, Arbellas first cousin, ended the young womans royal aspirations but thrust her into Jamess licentious court. Then, at age thirty-five, she risked everything to make a forbidden marriage. An escape in disguise, a wild flight abroad, and capture at sea led in the end to an agonizing death in the Tower. Yet nothing is as remarkable as the almost modern freedom with which, in a series of extraordinary letters more passionate and extensive than those of any other woman of this suffocating age Arbella Stuart revealed her own compelling personality.More editions of Arbella: England's Lost Queen:
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The Autobiography of Henry VIIIby Margaret GeorgeISBN 0345342755 (0-345-34275-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Autobiography of Henry VIII'Book summary:An extraordinary novel that brings into vivid focus the larger-than-life King Henry VIII, monarch of prodigious appetites for wine, women, and song. This is a readable, entertaining, tour de force that captures the essence of the Sixteenth Century, in all its drama and atmosphere. A can't-miss for readers who delight in wonderful historical fiction perfectly rendered.
"It doth brim with lust, violence, cruelty and lively conversation...Margaret George has found a new and fresh way to tell the story."
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Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builderby Mary S. LovellISBN 039306221X (0-393-06221-X)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder'Book summary:From the author of The Sisters, a chronicle of the most brutal, turbulent, and exuberant period of England's history.
Bess Hardwick, the fifth daughter of an impoverished Derbyshire nobleman, did not have an auspicious start in life. Widowed at sixteen, she nonetheless outlived four monarchs, married three more times, built the great house at Chatsworth, and died one of the wealthiest and most powerful women in English history.
In 1527 England was in the throes of violent political upheaval as Henry VIII severed all links with Rome. His daughter, Queen Mary, was even more capricious and bloody, only to be followed by the indomitable and ruthless Gloriana, Elizabeth I. It could not have been more hazardous a period for an ambitious woman; by the time Bess's first child was six, three of her illustrious godparents had been beheaded.
Using journals, letters, inventories, and account books, Mary S. Lovell tells the passionate, colorful story of an astonishingly accomplished woman, among whose descendants are counted the dukes of Devonshire, Rutland, and Portland, and, on the American side, Katharine Hepburn. [via]More editions of Bess of Hardwick: Empire Builder:
The Blind Devotion of the People: Popular Religion and the English Reformationby Robert WhitingISBN 0521356067 (0-521-35606-7)
Hardcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Boy King: Edward VI and the Protestant Reformationby Diarmaid MacCullochISBN 0520234022 (0-520-23402-2)
Softcover, Univ of California Pr
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Causes of the English Revolutionby StoneISBN 0415109256 (0-415-10925-6)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642by Lawrence StoneISBN 0415266734 (0-415-26673-4)
Softcover, Routledge
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The Children of Henry VIIIby Alison WeirISBN 0345407865 (0-345-40786-5)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Children of Henry VIII'Book summary:At his death in 1547, King Henry VIII left four heirs to the English throne: his only son, the nine-year-old Prince Edward; the Lady Mary, the adult daughter of his first wife Katherine of Aragon; the Lady Elizabeth, the teenage daughter of his second wife Anne Boleyn; and his young great-niece, the Lady Jane Grey. In her brilliantly compelling new book, Alison Weir, author of four highly acclaimed chronicles of English royalty, paints a unique portrait of these four extraordinary rulers, examining their intricate relationships to each other and to history.
Weir opens her narrative with the death of Henry and the accession of the boy king Edward VI. Often portrayed as weak and sickly, Edward, in fact had a keen intelligence and a flair for leadership. Had he not contracted a fatal disease at the age of fifteen, Edward might have become one of England's great kings. Instead, his brief reign was marked by vicious court intrigue that took the monarchy to the verge of bankruptcy.
Edward's death in 1553 plunged England into chaos, and it was in this explosive atmosphere that the ill-fated Lady Jane Grey was crowned Queen of England. A fragile, intellectual girl, Jane was only too happy to end her nine-day rule when the rioting English populace proclaimed Mary their true and rightful sovereign. Despite her innocence, Jane was brutally executed at the age of sixteen.
Mary's reign was marked by her savage persecution of heretics (non-Catholics) and by the emotional turbulence of her marriage to King Philip II of Spain. Weir describes the mounting tensions of the final days of Mary's bloody reign, as the shrewd, politically adroit Elizabeth quietly positions herself to assume royal power. The Children of Henry VIII closes with Elizabeth's accession and the commencement of one of the longest, and most spectacularly successful, reigns in English history.
Deeply engrossing, written with grace and clarity, The Children of Henry VIII combines the best of history and biography. Weir's devoted readers will recognize this as her finest book yet. [via]More editions of The Children of Henry VIII:
Church and People: England 1420-1660by Claire CrossISBN 0631214674 (0-631-21467-4)
Softcover, Blackwell Pub
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England inherited, from medieval times, two systems of authority: the Church, governed by Pope and Bishops; and the State, ruled by Monarch and Lords. However, from the late fourteenth century onwards, this division was increasingly challenged by the laity's insistence on their right to choose not only between different systems of Church government but also between different forms of religious belief. The author charts the rivalry between clergy and laity's and shows how political and social developments between 1450 and 1660 were decisively influenced by this conflict. This second edition includes updates throughout the text in the light of recent scholarship and a new bibliography. [via]
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Complete Illustrated Shakespeareby John GilbertISBN 0405124104 (0-405-12410-4)
Hardcover, Ayer Co Pub
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The Complete Illustrated Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, Howard StauntonISBN 0517278901 (0-517-27890-1)
Hardcover, Park Lane
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Complete Plays of William Shakespeare : Cha Rivby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 051743623X (0-517-43623-X)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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The Complete Works of Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, David BevingtonISBN 032109333X (0-321-09333-X)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare'Book summary:Offering the most comprehensive scholarly apparatus available in any Shakespeare text, this anthology provides extensive introductions to the plays and poems - offering discussion topics, sources for each play, and the stage history of performances. [via]
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- The Complete Works of Shakespeare: ISBN 0321012542 (0-321-01254-2)
Hardcover, Addison-Wesley - The Complete Works of Shakespeare: ISBN 0673076911 (0-673-07691-1)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman - The Complete Works of Shakespeare: ISBN 067315193X (0-673-15193-X)
Hardcover, Scott, Foresman - The Complete Works of Shakespeare: ISBN 032109333X (0-321-09333-X)
Hardcover, Longman Pub Group
- The Complete Works of Shakespeare: ISBN 0321012542 (0-321-01254-2)
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The Complete Works of Shakespeareby David BevingtonISBN 0321366263 (0-321-36626-3)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Works of Shakespeare'Book summary:The discipline's most reader-friendly Shakespeare anthology is now available in a Portable Edition: a boxed set of four portable, paperback volumes organized by genre. This convenient new format features all the content of the hardcover original, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, 5e, in four paperbacks packaged in a slipcase. The four separate genre volumes can also be purchased on their own. A balanced editorial approach, a highly respected editor, and proven apparatus combine to make Bevingtons the most accessible Complete Works available. A prestigious editorial board provides state-of-the-art scholarship and interpretative balance on each play. In-depth historical coverage helps students understand the cultural context behind each play, without dictating their reading of it. Extensive notes and glosses give students the support they need to understand Elizabethan language and idiomatic expressions. For those who want Shakespeare's complete works in a portable format.
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby William ShakespeareISBN 0517053616 (0-517-05361-6)
Hardcover, Outlet
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Complete Works of William Shakespeare'Book summary:FROM THE WORLD FAMOUS ROYAL SHAKESPEARE COMPANY, THE FIRST AUTHORITATIVE, MODERNIZED, AND CORRECTED EDITION OF SHAKESPEARES FIRST FOLIO IN THREE CENTURIES.
Skillfully assembled by Shakespeares fellow actors in 1623, the First Folio was the original Complete Works. It is arguably the most important literary work in the English language. But starting with Nicholas Rowe in 1709 and continuing to the present day, Shakespeare editors have mixed Folio and Quarto texts, gradually corrupting the original Complete Works with errors and conflated textual variations.
Now Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen, two of todays most accomplished Shakespearean scholars, have edited the First Folio as a complete book, resulting in a definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century.
Combining innovative scholarship with brilliant commentary and textual analysis that emphasizes performance history and values, this landmark edition will be indispensable to students, theater professionals, and general readers alike.
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Hardcover, Bantam Dell Pub Group - Complete Works of William Shakespeare: ISBN 0517383322 (0-517-38332-2)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub - Complete Works of William Shakespeare: ISBN 0517453738 (0-517-45373-8)
Hardcover, Chatham River Press - Complete Works of William Shakespeare: ISBN 0517053616 (0-517-05361-6)
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Complete Works of William Shakespeareby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517263297 (0-517-26329-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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Counties of Britain: A Tudor Atlasby John SpeedISBN 0500251045 (0-500-25104-5)
Hardcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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Dark Fireby C. J. SansomISBN 0670033723 (0-670-03372-3)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dark Fire'Book summary:It is 1540, and Matthew Shardlake, the lawyer renowned as "the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England," is pressed to help a friends young niece who is charged with murder. Despite threats of torture and death by the rack, the girl is inexplicably silent. Shardlake is about to lose her case when he is suddenly granted a reprieveone that will ensnare him in the dangerous schemes of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIIIs feared vicar-general.
In exchange for two more weeks to investigate the murder, Shardlake accepts Cromwells dangerous assignment to find a lost cache of "dark fire," a legendary weapon of mass destruction. Cromwell, out of favor since Henrys disastrous marriage to Anne of Cleves, is relying on Shardlake to save his position at court, which is rife with treasonous conspiracies.
With its wonderful attention to period detail and its brilliant handling of suspense, Dark Fire is sure to win comparisons with Margaret Georges Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles and captivate readers of Philippa Gregory and David Liss. [via]
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Discoveries and Reviews from Renaissance to Restorationby A. L. RowseISBN 0333183924 (0-333-18392-4)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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Dissolutionby C. J. SansomISBN 0670032034 (0-670-03203-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dissolution'Book summary:It is the winter of 1537 and England is divided into those faithful to the Catholic Church and those loyal to the King and the newly established Church of England. Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's feared vicar-general, crusades against the old Church with savage new laws, rigged trials, and a vast network of informers. Queen Anne Boleyn has been beheaded and monasteries are being dissolved-their treasures pillaged and their lands eyed greedily by courtiers and country gentry. But having put down one people's rebellion, Cromwell fears another might topple the realm. So, when one of his commissioners is murdered in the monastery at Scarnsea on the south coast of England, he enlists his fellow reformer, Matthew Shardlake, a lawyer renowned as "the sharpest hunchback in the courts of England," to head the inquiry.
When Shardlake and his young clerk and protégé, Mark Poer, arrive at Scarnsea, the two are greeted with thinly veiled hostility and suspicion as their investigation quickly uncovers evidence of sexual misconduct, embezzlement, and treason. While the community of brothers is revealed to be far less pious than they would seem, Shardlake himself is shocked to discover truths about Cromwell that undermine his own beliefs and threaten to cost him his faith, and even his life. But when a novice is poisoned and a year-old corpse dredged up from a nearby pond, Shardlake must act quickly to prevent the killer from murdering again
Exciting and elegant, Dissolution is a riveting historical novel and a brilliant debut by a writer who is sure to attract fans of Iain Pears, Ellis Peters, and Umberto Eco. [via]More editions of Dissolution:
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Diversity and Depth in Fictionby Angus Wilson, Kerry McSweeneyISBN 0670770760 (0-670-77076-0)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queensby Jane DunnISBN 0375708200 (0-375-70820-0)
Softcover, Vintage Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens'Book summary:Jane Dunns Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens offers a blend of history and biography that traces the "dynamic interaction" between two of the most powerful women in Western history. Dunn remains ever aware of the uniqueness of her two central figures: both women ruled as divinely ordained monarchs in a male dominated power structure; and both women were from the same family (Elizabeth I was the granddaughter of Henry VII, and Mary Queen of Scots the great-granddaughter of King Henry).
By focusing not on pure biography but instead on relationships, Dunn is able to narrow her book (still mammoth in scope) to the most salient and interesting events in the two queens lives. The book begins in 1558, the year in which Mary first wed and Elizabeth assumed the throne of England. Almost immediately the cousins were embroiled in a conflict that would endure for the remainder of Marys life. A restless, sexually-active Catholic, and leader of the Scottish people in alliance with France, Mary was ever a conduit for rumors of rebellion. The "Virgin Queen" Elizabeth used Mary as a dark reflection to underline her own celibate constancy as a ruler of law and order.
The pair never met face to face, but as Dunn reveals, their lives were closely intertwined. After holding Mary in Fotheringhay prison for nearly two decades, Elizabeth ordered her cousin executed in 1587. Mary had chosen martyrdom in favor of a confession to complicity in the Babington assassination plot. In court, she declared: "I would never make Shipwreck of my Soul by conspiring the Destruction of my dearest Sister." Though the ostensible victor, Elizabeth (who had struggled to find a way to release her cousin while still upholding her own power as queen) confessed, "I am not free, but a captive." In Elizabeth and Mary, Dunn has built a rich world that underlines the tragic struggle between private emotions and the public faces history puts on them. --Patrick OKelley [via]
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Elizabeth Iby Anne SomersetISBN 0385721579 (0-385-72157-9)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Elizabeth I'Book summary:Glitteringly detailed and engagingly written, the magisterial Elizabeth I brings to vivid life the golden age of sixteenth-century England and the uniquely fascinating monarch who presided over it. A woman of intellect and presence, Elizabeth was the object of extravagant adoration by her contemporaries. She firmly believed in the divine providence of her sovereignty and exercised supreme authority over the intrigue-laden Tudor court and Elizabethan England at large. Brilliant, mercurial, seductive, and maddening, an inspiration to artists and adventurers and the subject of vicious speculation over her choice not to marry, Elizabeth became the most powerful ruler of her time. Anne Somerset has immortalized her in this splendidly illuminating account.
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Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudorby Kathryn LaskyISBN 0590684841 (0-590-68484-1)
Hardcover, Scholastic
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The Gilded Chainby Dave DuncanISBN 0380791269 (0-380-79126-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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The Globe Illustrated Shakespeareby Howard StauntonISBN 0517623803 (0-517-62380-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare'Book summary:The complete theatrical works of the immortal bard, uniquely supplemented with annotation and critical analysis by a host of eminent scholars and critics -- from Samuel Coleridge to Samuel Johnson. Plus a biography of Shakespeare himself. For the collection of the Shakespeare enthusiast, and the edification of the Shakespeare novice. [via]
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The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare: The Complete Works Annotatedby William Shakespeare, Howard Staunton, John Gilbert, Ray Abel, Brothers DalzielISBN 0517205963 (0-517-20596-3)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Globe Illustrated Shakespeare : The Complete Works Annotated'Book summary:English literature. [via]
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Henry VIII: The King and His Courtby Alison WeirISBN 034543708X (0-345-43708-X)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Henry VIII: The King and His Court'Book summary:Contemporary observers described the young king in glowing terms. At over six feet tall, with rich auburn hair, clear skin, and a slender waist, he was, to many, "the handsomest prince ever seen." From this starting point in Henry VIII, the King and His Court, biographer extraordinare Alison Weir reveals a Henry VIII far different from the obese, turkey-leg gnawing, womanizing tyrant who has gone down in history. Henry embodied the Renaissance ideal of a man of many talents--musician, composer, linguist, scholar, sportsman, warrior--indeed, the Dutch humanist Erasmus (not a man inclined to flattery) declared him a "universal genius." In scholarly yet readable style, Weir brings Henry and his court to life in meticulous, but never tedious, detail. Weir describes everything from courtly fashions to political factions and elaborate meals to tournament etiquette. Along the way she offers up charming--if all too brief--glimpses of Henry's court: tiny Princess Mary, still a very young girl, at her betrothal ceremony saying to the proxy, "Are you the Dauphin of France? If you are, I want to kiss you"; Henry weeping with joy as he held his long-awaited son and heir for the first time; Henry showing off his legs to the Venetian ambassador ("Look here! I have also a good calf to my leg"); Henry's courtiers dressing in heavily padded clothes to emulate--and flatter--their increasingly stout monarch. She also reveals some surprises, for example, that Henry and Katherine were still hunting together as late as 1530, even though Henry was desperately trying to have their marriage annulled. Weir also describes surprisingly happier times in their relationship; Henry loved to dress up in costume, and "was especially fond of bursting in upon Queen Katherine and her ladies in the Queen's Chambers.... Henry took a boyish delight in these disguisings and Katherine seemingly never tired of feigning astonishment that it was her husband who had surprised her." Henry's queens receive relatively little attention here (for them, see Weir's excellent Six Wives of Henry VIII), but this book is fascinating and a joy to read. Alison Weir has done it again. --Sunny Delaney [via]
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionageby Stephen BudianskyISBN 0452287472 (0-452-28747-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage'Book summary:Sir Francis Walsinghams official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was Englands first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeths rival Mary Queen of Scots and outwit Catholic Spain and France, which had arrayed their forces behind her.
Though he cut an incongruous figure in Elizabeths worldly court, Walsingham managed to win the trust of key players like William Cecil and the Earl of Leceister before launching his own secret campaign against the queens enemies. Covert operations were Walsinghams genius; he pioneered techniques for exploiting double agents, spreading disinformation, and deciphering codes with the latest code-breaking science that remain staples of international espionage.
In the taut narrative of a spy novel, Budiansky recounts how this legendary spymaster invented the art and science of modern espionageand in the process set Elizabethan England on the path to empire. [via]
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I, Elizabethby Rosalind MilesISBN 0330309773 (0-330-30977-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Elizabeth'Book summary:Publicly declared a bastard at the age of three, daughter of a disgraced and executed mother, last in the line of succession to the throne of England, Elizabeth I inherited an England ravaged by bloody religious conflict, at war with Spain and France, and badly in debt. When she died in 1603, after a forty-five- year reign, her empire spanned two continents and was united under one church, victorious in war, and blessed with an overflowing treasury. Whats more, her favoritesWilliam Shakespeare, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Walter Raleighhad made
the Elizabethan era a cultural Golden Age still remembered today.
But for Elizabeth the woman, tragedy went hand in hand with triumph. Politics and scandal forced the passionate queen to reject her true love, Robert Dudley, and to execute his stepson, her much-adored Lord Essex. Now in this spellbinding novel, Rosalind Miles brings to life the woman behind the myth. By turns imperious, brilliant, calculating, vain, and witty, this is the Elizabeth the world never knew. From the days of her brutal father, Henry VIII, to her final dying moments, Elizabeth tells her story in her own words. [via]More editions of I, Elizabeth:
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I, Elizabeth: The Word of a Queenby Rosalind MilesISBN 0385471602 (0-385-47160-2)
Hardcover, Doubleday Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'I, Elizabeth: The Word of a Queen'Book summary:A fictional autobiography of Elizabeth I of England combines historical accuracy and exciting, fully drawn characters to give an accurate and insightful behind-the-scenes look at the world in 1600. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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The Impact of the English Reformation 1500-1640by Peter MarshallISBN 0340677090 (0-340-67709-0)
Softcover, Oxford Univ Pr on Demand
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Impact of the English Reformation 1500-1640'Book summary:This reader examines the effects of the Reformation on English society and asks such question as: how widespead was the appeal of Protestantism in England?; how did local communities react to the swings of official policy?; and how much continuity remained with the Catholic past? The contributions in the book identify, and in different and sometimes contradictory ways, attempt to resolve these and other questions. It is structured in three sections that combine a thematic focus with an overall sense of chronological development, exploring the English Reformation in terms of its origins, implementation, and outcomes. [via]
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In the Shadow of the Crownby Jean PlaidyISBN 0609810197 (0-609-81019-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In the Shadow of the Crown'Book summary:As Henry VIII's only child, the future seemed golden for Princess Mary. She was the daughter of Henry's first queen, Katharine of Aragon, and was heir presumptive to the throne of England. Red-haired like her father, she was also intelligent and deeply religious like her staunchly Catholic mother. But her father's ill-fated love for Anne Boleyn would shatter Mary's life forever. The father who had once adored her was now intent on having a male heir at all costs. He divorced her mother and, at the age of twelve, Mary was banished from her fathers presence, stripped of her royal title, and replaced by his other children--first Elizabeth, then Edward. Worst of all, she never saw her beloved mother again; Katharine was exiled too, and died soon after. Lonely and miserable, Mary turned for comfort to the religion that had sustained her mother.
In a stroke of fate, however, Henry's much-longed-for son died in his teens, leaving Mary the legitimate heir to the throne. It was, she felt, a sign from God--proof that England should return to the Catholic Church. Swayed by fanatical advisors and her own religious fervor, Mary made horrific examples of those who failed to embrace the Church, earning her the immortal nickname "Bloody Mary." She was married only once, to her Spanish cousin Philip II--a loveless and childless marriage that brought her to the edge of madness.
With In the Shadow of the Crown, Jean Plaidy brings to life the dark story of a queen whose road to the throne was paved with sorrow. [via]More editions of In the Shadow of the Crown:
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Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Greyby Alison WeirISBN 0345494857 (0-345-49485-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Innocent Traitor: A Novel of Lady Jane Grey'Book summary:I am now a condemned traitor . . . I am to die when I have hardly begun to live.
Historical expertise marries page-turning fiction in Alison Weirs enthralling debut novel, breathing new life into one of the most significant and tumultuous periods of the English monarchy. It is the story of Lady Jane Grey the Nine Days Queen a fifteen-year-old girl who unwittingly finds herself at the center of the religious and civil unrest that nearly toppled the fabled House of Tudor during the sixteenth century.
The child of a scheming father and a ruthless mother, for whom she is merely a pawn in a dynastic game with the highest stakes, Jane Grey was born during the harrowingly turbulent period between Anne Boleyns beheading and the demise of Janes infamous great-uncle, King Henry VIII. With the premature passing of Janes adolescent cousin, and Henrys successor, King Edward VI, comes a struggle for supremacy fueled by political machinations and lethal religious fervor.
Unabashedly honest and exceptionally intelligent, Jane possesses a sound strength of character beyond her years that equips her to weather the vicious storm. And though she has no ambitions to rule, preferring to immerse herself in books and religious studies, she is forced to accept the crown, and by so doing sets off a firestorm of intrigue, betrayal, and tragedy.
Alison Weir uses her unmatched skills as a historian to enliven the many dynamic characters of this majestic drama. Along with Lady Jane Grey, Weir vividly renders her devious parents; her much-loved nanny; the benevolent Queen Katherine Parr; Janes ambitious cousins; the Catholic Bloody Mary, who will stop at nothing to seize the throne; and the protestant and future queen Elizabeth. Readers venture inside royal drawing rooms and bedchambers to witness the power-grabbing that swirls around Lady Jane Grey from the day of her birth to her unbearably poignant death. Innocent Traitor paints a complete and compelling portrait of this captivating young woman, a faithful servant of God whose short reign and brief life would make her a legend.
An impressive debut. Weir shows skill at plotting and maintaining tension, and she is clearly going to be a major player in the . . . historical fiction game.
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Alison Weir is one of our greatest popular historians. In her first work of fiction . . . Weir manages her heroines voice brilliantly, respecting the pasts distance while conjuring a dignified and fiercely modern spirit.
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The Life of Elizabeth Iby Alison WeirISBN 0345425502 (0-345-42550-2)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Life of Elizabeth I'Book summary:The long life and powerful personality of England's beloved Virgin Queen have eternal appeal, and popular historian Alison Weir depicts both with panache. She's especially good at evoking the physical texture of Tudor England: the elaborate royal gowns (actually an intricate assembly of separate fabric panels buttoned together over linen shifts), the luxurious but unhygienic palaces (Elizabeth got the only "close stool"; most members of her retinue relieved themselves in the courtyards), the huge meals heavily seasoned to disguise the taste of spoiled meat. Against this earthy backdrop, Elizabeth's intelligence and formidable political skills stand in vivid relief. She may have been autocratic, devious, even deceptive, but these traits were required to perform a 45-year tightrope walk between the two great powers of Europe, France and Spain. Both countries were eager to bring small, weak England under their sway and to safely marry off its inconveniently independent queen. Weir emphasizes Elizabeth's precarious position as a ruling woman in a man's world, suggesting plausibly that the single life was personally appealing as well as politically expedient for someone who had seen many ambitious ladies--including her own mother--ruined and even executed for just the appearance of sexual indiscretions. The author's evaluations of such key figures in Elizabeth's reign as the Earl of Leicester (arguably the only man she ever loved) and William Cecil (her most trusted adviser) are equally cogent and respectful of psychological complexity. Weir does a fine job of retelling this always-popular story for a new generation. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Mary Queen of Scotsby Antonia FraserISBN 038531129X (0-385-31129-X)
Softcover, Delta
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Mary Queen of Scotsby Outlet Book Company Staff, Random House Value Publishing StaffISBN 0517414244 (0-517-41424-4)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Mary Queen of Scots'Book summary:Mary Queen of Scots passed her childhood in France and married the Dauphin to become Queen of France at the age of sixteen. Widowed less than two years later, she returned to Scotland as Queen after an absence of thirteen years. Her life then entered its best known phase: the early struggles with John Knox and the unruly Scottish nobility; the fatal marriage to Darnley and his mysterious death; her marriage to Bothwell, the chief suspect, that led directly to her long English captivity at the hands of Queen Elizabeth; the poignant and extraordinary story of her long imprisonment that ended with the labyrinthine Babington plot to free her, and her execution at the age of forty-four. [via]
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Mary, Queen of Scots and the Murder of Lord Darnleyby Alison WeirISBN 034543658X (0-345-43658-X)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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New Worlds, Lost Worlds : The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603by Susan BrigdenISBN 0670899852 (0-670-89985-2)
Hardcover, Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
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› Find signed collectible books: 'New Worlds, Lost Worlds : The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603'Book summary:No period in British history retains more resonance and mystery for contemporary readers than the sixteenth century. For history buffs, or almost any reader, the figures and events of Tudor Britain approach those of myth. Already published to critical acclaim in Great Britain, The Rule of the Tudors traces the course and currents of this formative era from the secretive Henry VII and his charming, capricious, ruthless Renaissance son, Henry VIII, to "Bloody Mary" Tudor and her nemesis, Elizabeth I, who trumpeted her adroit rule of a man's world with "the body of a weak and feeble woman but...the heart and stomach of a king."
Above all, the Tudor epoch emerges as a battleground between the new world of Protestantism and the old one of unquestioned Catholicism-a great religious rent in the fabric of English society that underlies turbulence and carnage from Henry VIII's break with Rome to the threat of conquest by Spain. The Rule of the Tudors is an authoritative, impeccably written, and startlingly atmospheric history. [via]More editions of New Worlds, Lost Worlds : The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603:
Nine Days Queenby BradfordISBN 0590716174 (0-590-71617-4)
Softcover, Scholastic Book Service
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The Norton Shakespeare: Based on the Oxford Editionby William Shakespeare, Stephen Greenblatt, Walter Cohen, Jean E. Howard, Katharine E. MausISBN 0393041077 (0-393-04107-7)
Hardcover, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Norton Shakespeare : Based on the Oxford Edition'Book summary:Comprising the complete works of William Shakespeare, based on the Oxford edition, this book has been edited and annotated to provide a single-column text. Each play has an introduction aimed at encouraging a fresh approach to the work. In the general introduction, the editor draws a picture of everyday life in Elizabethan England: the culture, the people, commerce, politics and religion. He describes Shakespeare's family life and his professional career as a working man of the theatre. He also discusses the printing and publishing of the plays, and recent developments in textual scholarship. Lastly, he considers questions affecting Shakespeare criticism. An essay by Andrew Gurr (University of Reading), on the staging of Shakespeare's plays explains, for example, how the plays were performed at the "Globe" theatre. An accompanying CD-ROM, "The Norton Shakespeare Workshop" is also available. [via]
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The Perilous Gardby Elizabeth Marie Pope, Richard CuffariISBN 0618150730 (0-618-15073-0)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Perilous Gard'Book summary:In 1558, while exiled by Queen Mary Tudor to a remote castle known as Perilous Gard, young Kate Sutton becomes involved in a series of mysterious events that lead her to an underground world peopled by Fairy Folkwhose customs are even older than the Druids and include human sacrifice.[via]-
Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymourby Laurien GardnerISBN 0515141550 (0-515-14155-0)
Softcover, Jove Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Plain Jane: A Novel of Jane Seymour'Book summary:With a plain face, Jane Seymour has no suitors and few hopes. Then she is granted a position at court as maid of honor to Queen Catherine. There, Henry VIII ignores his aging wife, showering favor on the dark beauty Anne Boleyn, soon to be his new queen. But he tires of stubborn Anne, and his wandering eye falls on plain Jane. Although she cares for Henry, she must not let herself be swept away by his attentions. For she intends to win not only his heart but also the greatest prize of all-the crown. [via]
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Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuartby John GuyISBN 0618619178 (0-618-61917-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart'Book summary:The eminent British historian John Guy has unearthed a wealth of evidence that upends the popular notion of Mary Queen of Scots as a femme fatale and establishes her as the intellectual and political equal of Elizabeth I.[via]
Guy draws on sources as varied as the secret communiqués of English spies and Marys own letters (many hitherto unstudied) to depict her world and her actions with stunning immediacy. Here is a myth-shattering reappraisal of her multifaceted character and prodigious political skill. Guy dispels the persistent popular image of Mary as a romantic leading lady, achieving her ends through feminine wiles, driven by love to murder, undone by passion and poor judgment. Through his pioneering research, we come to see her as an emotionally intricate woman and an adroit diplomat, maneuvering ingeniously among a dizzying array of powerful factions the French, the English, duplicitous Scottish nobles, and religious zealots who sought to control or dethrone her. Guys investigation of Marys storied downfall throws sharp new light on questions that have baffled historians for centuries, and offers convincing new evidence that she was framed for the murder for which she was beheaded.
Queen of Scots, the first full-scale biography of Mary in more than thirty years, offers a singularly novel, nuanced, and dramatic portrait of one of historys greatest women.More editions of Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart:
Queen of This Realmby Jean PlaidyISBN 0609810200 (0-609-81020-0)
Softcover, Three Rivers Pr
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Queen of This Realm: The Story of Elizabeth Iby Victoria Holt, Jean Plaidy, Philippa Carr, Eleanor HibbertISBN 0399129855 (0-399-12985-5)
Hardcover, Granite Impex Ltd
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Queen of This Realm: The Story of Elizabeth I'Book summary:In this "memoir" by Elizabeth I, legendary historical novelist Jean Plaidy reveals the Virgin Queen as she truly was: the bewildered, motherless child of an all-powerful father; a captive in the Tower of London; a shrewd politician; a lover of the arts; and eventually, an icon of an era. It is the story of her improbable rise to power and the great triumphs of her reign--the end of religious bloodshed, the settling of the New World, the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Brilliantly clever, a scholar with a ready wit, she was also vain, bold, and unpredictable, a queen who commanded--and won--absolute loyalty from those around her.
But in these pages, in her own voice, Elizabeth also recounts the emotional turmoil of her life: the loneliness of power; the heartbreak of her lifelong love affair with Robert Dudley, whom she could never marry; and the terrible guilt of ordering the execution of her cousin, Mary, Queen of Scots. In this unforgettable novel, Elizabeth emerges as one of the most fascinating and controversial women in history, and as Englands greatest monarch.
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The Rise and Fall of Anne Boleyn: Family Politics at the Court of Henry VIIIby Retha M. WarnickeISBN 0521406773 (0-521-40677-3)
Softcover, Cambridge Univ Pr
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The Riverside Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, G. Blakemore Evans, Heather Dubrow, Charles H. Shattuck, William T. Liston, Frank Kermode, Hallett Smith, Anne Barton, Harry Levin, Herschel Baker, Marie Edel, Joseph Jay TobinISBN 0395754909 (0-395-75490-9)
Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Riverside Shakespeare'Book summary:After more than a generation and despite its many imitators, The Riverside Shakespeare remains the Shakespeare of choice for scholars and general readers alike. Recently revised to reflect the last quarter century of literary scholarship, it is now available in a deluxe edition - two volumes, bound in full cloth, in a handsome, four-color slipcase. The new, revised version of The Riverside Shakespeare retains all the features that made the first edition so popular - the invaluable notes, the wide-ranging introduction, and the brilliant critical prefaces to the individual works. Additions include the history play Edward IIIand the poem "A Funeral Elegy," both recently claimed for Shakespeare by computer-aided textual analysis. The original appendices have been updated and expanded and are joined by two new essays, "Twentieth-Century Shakespeare Criticism" and "Shakespeare's Plays in Performance: From 1970," the latter accompanied by eight pages of full-color photographs. [via]
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Hardcover, Houghton Mifflin - The Riverside Shakespeare: ISBN 0395172268 (0-395-17226-8)
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The Serpent Gardenby Judith Merkle RileyISBN 067086661X (0-670-86661-X)
Hardcover, Penguin USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Serpent Garden'Book summary:When Henry VIII arranges a marriage between his sister and the aging French king, widowed painter Susanna Dallet joins the entourage of the princess-bride, unwittingly carrying a perilous secret that will embroil her in the dark intrigues of the French court. 35,000 first printing. $35,000 ad/promo. Tour. [via]
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Shakespeareby A. L. RowseISBN 0517535092 (0-517-53509-2)
Hardcover, Crown Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shakespeare'Book summary:The Annotated Shakespeare: The Comedies, Histories, Sonnets and Other Poems, Tragedies and Romances Complete (Three Volume Set in Slipcase) [Dec 12, 1978] A.L. Rowse [via]
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The Spanish Bride: A Novel of Catherine of Aragonby Laurien GardnerISBN 0515140279 (0-515-14027-9)
Softcover, Berkley Pub Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Spanish Bride: A Novel of Catherine of Aragon'Book summary:Catherine of Aragon treasured the romantic ideal of the chivalrous knight in shining armor. Believing she'd married one, she surrendered her fate to a monarch whose treatment of his wives would make him notorious. [via]
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This Realmby SmithISBN 0669244589 (0-669-24458-9)
Softcover, D C Heath & Co
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This Realm of England: 1399-1688by SmithISBN 0669134228 (0-669-13422-8)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Realm of England: 1399-1688'Book summary:This text, which is the second volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. The Eighth Edition incorporates more women's history, while continuing to provide balanced political and economic coverage with social and cultural history woven throughout. [via]
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This Realm of England, 1399 to 1688by Lacey Baldwin Smith, Baldwin Lacey SmithISBN 0618001026 (0-618-00102-6)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin College Div
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› Find signed collectible books: 'This Realm of England 1399-1688'Book summary:This text, which is the second volume in the best-selling History of England series, tells how a small and insignificant outpost of the Roman empire evolved into a nation that has produced and disseminated so many significant ideas and institutions. The Eighth Edition incorporates more women's history, while continuing to provide balanced political and economic coverage with social and cultural history woven throughout. [via]
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Tudor Rebellionsby Anthony Fletcher, Diarmaid MacCullochISBN 0582772850 (0-582-77285-0)
Softcover, Addison-Wesley
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Tudor Rebellions'Book summary:The Tudor age was a tumultuous one ¿ a time of the Reformation, conspiracies, uprisings and rebellions. The Tudor Rebellions gives a chronological run-down of the major rebellions and throws light on some of the main themes of Tudor history, including the dynasty¿s attempt to bring the north and west under the control of the capital, the progress of the English Reformation and the impact of inflation, taxation and enclosure on society.
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Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeareby Stephen GreenblattISBN 039332737X (0-393-32737-X)
Softcover, W W Norton & Co Inc
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare'Book summary:There's no shortage of good Shakespearean biographies. But Stephen Greenblatt, brilliant scholar and author of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare, reminds us that the "surviving traces" are "abundant but thin" as to known facts. He acknowledges the paradox of the many biographies spun out of conjecture but then produces a book so persuasive and breathtakingly enjoyable that one wonders what he could have done if the usual stuff of biographical inquiry--memoirs, interviews, manuscripts, and drafts--had been at his disposal. Greenblatt uses the "verbal traces" in Shakespeare's work to take us "back into the life he lived and into the world to which he was so open." Whenever possible, he also ushers us from the extraordinary life into the luminous work. The result is a marvelous blend of scholarship, insight, observation, and, yes, conjecture--but conjecture always based on the most convincing and inspired reasoning and evidence. Particularly compelling are Greenblatt's discussions of the playwright's relationship with the university wit Robert Greene (discussed as a chief source for the character of Falstaff) and of Hamlet in relation to the death of Shakespeare's son Hamnet, his aging father, and the "world of damaged rituals" that England's Catholics were forced to endure.
Will in the World is not just the life story of the world's most revered writer. It is the story, too, of 16th- and 17th-century England writ large, the story of religious upheaval and political intrigue, of country festivals and brutal public executions, of the court and the theater, of Stratford and London, of martyrdom and recusancy, of witchcraft and magic, of love and death: in short, of the private but engaged William Shakespeare in his remarkable world. Throughout the book, Greenblatt's style is breezy and familiar. He often refers to the poet simply as Will. Yet for all his alacrity of style and the book's accessibility, Will in the World is profoundly erudite, an enormous contribution to the world of Shakespearean letters. --Silvana TropeaInterview with Stephen Greenblatt
Stephen Greenblatt shares his thoughts about what make Shakespeare Shakespeare and why the Bard continues to fascinate us endlessly.More editions of Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare:
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William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Veniceby William ShakespeareISBN 0517092948 (0-517-09294-8)
Hardcover, Grammercy
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet/Macbeth/Hamlet/Othello/The Taming of the Shrew/A Midsummer Night's Dream/The Merchant of Venice'Book summary:Definitive, comprehensive, and handsome edition presents every one of Shakespeare's great plays-the Comedies, Tragedies and Histories-plus his poems and, of course, the Sonnets. All in one beautifully illustrated volume. B&W illustrations throughout. 1248 pages. [via]
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William Shakespeare, the Complete Works: Illustratedby William ShakespeareISBN 0517163020 (0-517-16302-0)
Hardcover, Gramercy Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'William Shakespeare, the Complete Works: Illustrated'Book summary:A landmark in Shakespeare studies, this version of The Complete Oxford Shakespeare is the first critical edition of the complete works in the original spelling and punctuation. It is based on the most thorough examination ever undertaken of the nature and authority of the earliest manuscripts, representing eight years of work by a team of British and American scholars. The works are arranged in conjectural order of composition based on the new research, and where the opportunity for choice existed, the spelling and punctuation of the text closest to Shakespeare's own manuscript has been chosen. With this Original Spelling Edition scholars and general readers have for the first time--
· The uncensored text of Henry IV and the original titles of three other plays
· Edited texts of King Lear both as Shakespeare originally wrote it and as it was revised for performance years later
Additional features include--
· Major textual alternatives--first versions and deleted lines--are printed as additional passages
· Stage directions have been reconsidered in light of the play's original staging and many directions have been added
· Conjectural stage directions and speech prefixes are identified in brackets
· A general introduction, brief introductions to each work, and an essay on the language of Shakespeare's time are provided [via]More editions of William Shakespeare, the Complete Works: Illustrated:
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The Wives of Henry VIIIby Antonia FraserISBN 0394585380 (0-394-58538-0)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wives of Henry VIII'Book summary:When we think of the wives of Henry VIII, we tend to think of women who literally lost their heads. But Antonia Fraser opens the door to the political and cultural demands that shaped the destinies of the king and his royal wives. Romance, unfortunately, rarely had anything to do with it. And if you think the modern American media is too tough on political leadership, you oughta READ about the royal court in King Henry's day! That's one family you'd never want to marry into. [via]
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Works: William Shakespeareby William Shakespeare, William G. Clark, William Aldis WrightISBN 0404059503 (0-404-05950-3)
Hardcover, Ams Pr Inc
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