Author: Levi Fox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780711709744
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32

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Author: Paul Edmondson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110705432X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 371

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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.

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Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 9780375916106
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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An illustrated collection of stories based on the plays of William Shakespeare.

Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Richard Schoch
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350409367
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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In the wide realm of Shakespeare worship, the house in Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born in 1564 – known colloquially as the 'Birthplace' – remains the chief shrine. It's not as romantic as Anne Hathaway's thatched cottage, it's not where he wrote any of his plays, and there's nothing inside the house that once belonged to Shakespeare himself. So why, for centuries, have people kept turning up on the doorstep? Richard Schoch answers that question by examining the history of the Birthplace and by exploring how its changing fortunes over four centuries perfectly mirror the changing attitudes toward Shakespeare himself. Based on original research in the archives of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust in Stratford-upon-Avon and the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, and featuring two black and white illustrated plate sections which draw on the wide array of material available at the Folger Shakespeare Library and the Victoria and Albert Museum, this book traces the history of Shakespeare's birthplace over four centuries. Beginning in the 1560s, when Shakespeare was born there, it ends in the 1890s, when the house was rescued from private purchase and turned into the Shakespeare monument that it remains today.

Author: Jackie Bennett
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Children's Books
ISBN: 0711256985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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For the first time, Shakespeare's Gardens brings together brand new photography of the gardens with beautiful archive images of flowers, old herbals, and 16th century illustrations. It tells the story of Will's journey - from glove maker's son to national bard - and how he came to know so much about plants, flowers and gardens of the Elizabethan era.

Author: N. Watson
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 023058456X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 250

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This original, witty, illustrated study offers the first analytical history of the rise and development of literary tourism in nineteenth-century Britain, associated with authors from Shakespeare, Gray, Keats, Burns and Scott, the Brontë sisters, and Thomas Hardy. Invaluable for the student of travel and literature of the nineteenth century.

Author: Lena Cowen Orlin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192846302
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 447

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Tells the story of Shakespeare in Stratford as a family man. The book offers close readings of key documents associated with Shakespeare and develops a contextual understanding of the genres from which these documents emerge. It reconsiders clusters of evidence that have been held to prove some persistent biographical fables

Author: Jenny Oliver
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008297568
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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The best kept secrets are waiting to be found... ‘A lovely read ... leaving you with a warm glow and a smile your face’ Jo Thomas ‘The perfect summer read ... I loved everything about it!’ Bella Osborne ‘Fresh and original, haunting and evocative’ Jules Wake ‘A delicious ice-cream of a book’ Josie Lloyd

Author: Paul Edmondson
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526106515
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 308

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This ground-breaking book provides an abundance of fresh insights into Shakespeare's life in relation to his lost family home, New Place. The findings of a major archaeological excavation encourage us to think again about what New Place meant to Shakespeare and, in so doing, challenge some of the long-held assumptions of Shakespearian biography. New Place was the largest house in the borough and the only one with a courtyard. Shakespeare was only ever an intermittent lodger in London. His impressive home gave Shakespeare significant social status and was crucial to his relationship with Stratford-upon-Avon. Archaeology helps to inform biography in this innovative and refreshing study which presents an overview of the site from prehistoric times through to a richly nuanced reconstruction of New Place when Shakespeare and his family lived there, and beyond. This attractively illustrated book is for anyone with a passion for archaeology or Shakespeare.