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9780141012605
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Author: William Shakespeare (ed/commenetary Stanley Wells/ Intro Helen Hackett)
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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A young woman flees Athens with her lover, only to be pursued by her would-be husband and by her best friend. Unwittingly, all four find themselves in an enchanted forest where fairies and sprites soon take an interest in human affairs, dispensing magical love potions and casting mischievous spells. In this dazzling comedy, confusion ends in harmony, as love is transformed, misplaced, and ultimately restored.
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9780141012278
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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When Rosalind is banished by her uncle, who has usurped her father's throne, she flees to the Forest of Arden where her exiled father holds court. There, dressed as a boy to avoid discovery, she encounters the man she loves now a fellow exile and resolves to remain in disguise to test his feelings for her. A gloriously sunny comedy, As You Like It is an exuberant combination of concealed identities and verbal jousting, reconciliations and multiple weddings.
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9780571235766
Contested Will : Who Wrote Shakespeare? order quantity
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Author: James Shapiro
Published by: Faber and Faber
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For two hundred years after Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including Sir Francis Bacon and the Earl of Oxford - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the mystery of when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote the plays (among them such leading writers and artists as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, and Sir Derek Jacobi). Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro's fascinating search for the source of this controversy retraces a path strewn with fabricated documents, calls for trials, false claimants, concealed identity, bald-faced deception and a failure to grasp what could not be imagined. If Contested Will does not end the authorship question once and for all, it will nonetheless irrevocably change the nature of the debate by confronting what's ... more
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9780141013077
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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A young prince meets with his father's ghost, who alleges that his own brother, now married to his widow, murdered him. The prince devises a scheme to test the truth of the ghost's accusation, feigning wild madness while plotting a brutal revenge. But his apparent insanity soon begins to wreak havoc on innocent and guilty alike.
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9780141013695
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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Promised a golden future as ruler of Scotland by three sinister witches, Macbeth murders the king to ensure his ambitions come true. But he soon learns the meaning of terror - killing once, he must kill again and again, and the dead return to haunt him. A story of war, witchcraft and bloodshed, Macbeth also depicts the relationship between husbands and wives, and the risks they are prepared to take to achieve their desires.

This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre, a separate introduction to Macbeth, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary.
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9780141013039
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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The bitter, deformed brother of the King is secretly plotting to seize the throne of England. Charming and duplicitous, powerfully eloquent and viciously cruel, he is prepared to go to any lengths to achieve his goal and, in his skilful manipulation of events and people, Richard is a chilling incarnation of the lure of evil and the temptation of power.
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9780141012261
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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A young man and woman meet by chance and fall instantly in love. But their families are bitter enemies, and in order to be together the two lovers must be prepared to risk everything. Set in a city torn apart by feuds and gang warfare, Romeo and Juliet is a dazzling combination of passion and hatred, bawdy comedy and high tragedy.
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9780007325238
Shakespeare (illustrated gift edn) order quantity
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NZ$ 45.00 each
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Author: Bill Bryson
Published by: Harper Collins
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This exquisitely illustrated edition of Bill Bryson's best-selling biography of William Shakespeare takes the reader on an enthralling guide through Elizabethan England and the eccentricities of Shakespearean scholarship. Bill Bryson's Shakespeare pairs our most celebrated writer in history with one of the most cherished writers in the English language today. In this elegant new illustrated edition, the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright are evoked through a series of full-colour paintings, drawings, portraits, documents and photographs. Bryson also includes the recent discoveries of the Cobbe portrait and the remains of Shakespeare's first theatre in Shoreditch. Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bryson - with his inimitable wit and intelligence - has attempted to make sense of the man behind the masterpieces. In a journey through the ... more
 
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9780099518860
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Vintage/Ebury
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9781844837731
The Art of Love : The most eloquent love passages in Shakespeare's plays and poetry - includes all 154 sonnets order quantity
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Author: William Shakespeare (ed Michael Best)
Published by: Watkins Publishing
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The beauty and meaning behind his poetry and prose has meant that Shakespeare's work has lived on throughout history long after his death. We still fall in love and become passionate, or jealous, or dim-witted, or melancholy, or dreamy, or vengeful, or courageous on behalf of a loved one. We still use language with outlandish imagery or moving simplicity of expression to attempt the impossible - that is, distil the essence of love into words. Shakespeare achieved this alchemy of the imagination as no other writer before or since. Here, in a beautiful volume to treasure, we offer wonderful words on love in all its moods, in verse and prose, from the poetry and the plays - with a brilliantly illuminating introduction and commentary from a Shakespeare scholar. From the star-crossed Romeo and Juliet, and the witty Benedick and Beatrice, to the broody passion of Othello and the Dark Lady of the sonnets, there is so much here to admire, ... more
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9780141000589
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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This major new complete edition of Shakespeare's works combines accessibility with the latest scholarship. Each play and collection of poems is preceded by a substantial introduction that looks at textual and literary-historical issues. The texts themselves have been scrupulously edited and are accompanied by same-page notes and glossaries. Particular attention has been paid to the design of the book to ensure that this first new edition of the twenty-first century is both attractive and approachable.
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9780141014708
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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Separated from her twin brother Sebastian after a shipwreck, Viola disguises herself as a boy to serve the Duke of Illyria. Wooing a countess on his behalf, she is stunned to find herself the object of his beloved's affections. With the arrival of Viola's brother, and a trick played upon the countess's steward, confusion reigns in this romantic comedy of mistaken identity.
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9780141016603
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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A poor physician’s daughter cures the King of France, and in return is promised the hand of any nobleman she wishes. But the man she chooses, the proud young Count of Rosillion, refuses to consummate the forced marriage and flees to Florence. Depicting the triumph of trickery over youthful arrogance, All’s Well that Ends Well is among Shakespeare’s darkest romantic comedies, yet it remains a powerful tribute to the strength of love.
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9780141012285
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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A battle-hardened soldier, Antony is one of the three leaders of the Roman world. But he is also a man in the grip of an all-consuming passion for the exotic and tempestuous queen of Egypt. And when their life of pleasure together is threatened by the encroaching politics of Rome, the conflict between love and duty has devastating consequences.
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9780004704753
Complete Works of William Shakespeare order quantity
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers
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This edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare includes commissioned introductions to each of the plays and poems by a team of academics, including John Jowett and Philip Hobsbaum, with a textual introduction by Alec Yearling explaining the significance of the Alexander edition.
 
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9781579126513
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Bookwise International
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9780140707427
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Author: William Shakespeare
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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The King of Britain, enraged by his daughter's disobedience in marrying against his wishes, banishes his new son-in-law. Having fled to Rome, the exiled husband makes a foolish wager with a villain he encounters there gambling on the fidelity of his abandoned wife. Combining courtly menace and horror, comedy and melodrama, Cymbeline is a moving depiction of two young lovers driven apart by deceit and self-doubt.
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9780844257570
Dictionary of Who, What, and Where in Shakespeare - a comprehensive guide to Shakespeare's plays, characters and contemporaries order quantity
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Author: Sandra Clark
Published by: NTC Publishing Group,U.S.
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9780747572121
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Author: Louise McConnell
Published by: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
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This fascinating dictionary provides a truly accessible A-Z guide to Shakespeare's plays, poems and stagecraft, as well as the historical context in which he wrote.

Entries help explain Shakespeare's texts and provide the historical context needed. The wealth of information includes practical details of productions and theatre companies, terms from Elizabethan history and society, plus those used in critical reviews. Exit, Pursued by a Bear will bring hours of informative pleasure to anyone interested in the Bard and his work.

Supplements include a detailed filmography, which includes international adaptations of the plays, a list of useful websites and suggestions for further reading as well as a map of Elizabethan playhouses and a guide to kings and queens of the period.
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9781847240736
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Author: Pauline Kiernan
Published by: Quercus
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Despite the richness of Shakespeare's sexual language (his work includes no fewer than 150 puns for female genitals, and 180 for male genitalia), scant attention has been paid to it until now. "Filthy Shakespeare" offers more than 70 examples of the Bard at his bawdiest, arranged under 23 sexual categories. Each filthy passage is 'translated' into modern English and the hidden sexual meanings of the words explained in a glossary. In a lively and rumbustious introduction, author Pauline Kiernan shows how Shakespeare's predilection for rude punning had its roots in the social and political reality of Elizabethan England, where the brutal facts of life were often described by figures of speech to distance or disguise them, and where the network of government spies meant that covert communication was, for some, a matter of life and death. "Filthy Shakespeare" is not just the quirkiest, dirtiest and funniest gift book of the year, it also ... more
 
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