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Product Description: John Field, an ordained minister in the Established Church during the sixteenth century described playhouses as 'schools of wickedness' and 'sinks of sin'. Little did he know that, after his death, his son Nathan (Nat) Field would become one of Britain's most celebrated players and playwrights...read more

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9781680530179 | Maunsel & Co, July 1, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: John Field, an ordained minister in the Established Church during the sixteenth century described playhouses as 'schools of wickedness' and 'sinks of sin'.

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The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry. Yet his plays were also intensely alert to the social and political realities of their times.

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9780224062763 | Vintage Uk, October 7, 2004, cover price $35.90 | About this edition: The theatre for which Shakespeare wrote and acted was a cut-throat commercial entertainment industry.
9780393050578 | W W Norton & Co Inc, September 30, 2004, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A portrait of Elizabethan England and how it contributed to the making of William Shakespeare discusses how he moved to London lacking money, connections, and a formal education and rose to became his age's foremost playwright.

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9780393352603 | Reissue edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, April 4, 2016), cover price $16.95
9780393928808 | 1 edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, February 3, 2006), cover price $18.15
9780393327373 | Reprint edition (W W Norton & Co Inc, September 1, 2005), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: A portrait of Elizabethan England and how it contributed to the making of William Shakespeare discusses how he moved to London lacking money, connections, and a formal education and rose to became his age's foremost playwright.

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9780866985000 | Mrts, December 18, 2013, cover price $39.00
9780317656169, titled "The Second Generation" | Hennessey & Ingalls, February 1, 1984, cover price $27.50 | also contains The Second Generation

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Product Description: Acclaimed as the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare needs little introduction. Or does he? Going beyond Shakespeare the writer and actor, Graham Holderness explores the fact and fiction, tradition and myth, surrounding Shakespeare's life...read more

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9781441151858 | Bloomsbury USA Academic, December 8, 2011, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Acclaimed as the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare needs little introduction.

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9781472517302 | Reprint edition (Bloomsbury Arden, November 7, 2013), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Acclaimed as the greatest dramatist of all time, William Shakespeare needs little introduction.

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Product Description: Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries. His fame rests not only on the numerous plays he had written, but on his achievements over three decades as principal masque-writer to the early Stuart court, where he had worked in creative, if at times stormy, collaboration with Inigo Jones...read more

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9780198129769 | Oxford Univ Pr, January 13, 2012, cover price $39.95

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9780199697472 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 2013), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Ben Jonson was the greatest of Shakespeare's contemporaries.

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Product Description: As with many writers before and since, William Shakespeare was influenced by the events that took shape all around him. Sweeping changes to Englands politics, language, and culture that took place during his lifetime were the fertile ground from which the Bard drew inspiration...read more
By Kathleen Kuiper (editor)

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9781615309269 | Britannica Educational Pub, December 15, 2012, cover price $32.90 | About this edition: As with many writers before and since, William Shakespeare was influenced by the events that took shape all around him.

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By Thomas Mann (introduced by)

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9780486490274 | Dover Pubns, November 21, 2012, cover price $14.95

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9781743311738 | Reprint edition (Allen & Unwin, October 1, 2012), cover price $24.95

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9780631207849 | Blackwell Pub, May 15, 2012, cover price $115.00

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9781118281529 | Blackwell Pub, May 15, 2012, cover price $37.95

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9781400062065 | Random House Inc, April 7, 2009, cover price $35.00

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9780812971811 | Random House Inc, October 12, 2010, cover price $18.00

Miscellaneous:

9781588367815 | Random House Inc, April 7, 2009, cover price $35.00

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An account of the life and times of William Shakespeare, including maps and chronology. From cottage to mighty castle, royal palace to battlefield, country village to vibrant metropolis, this work investigates the locations that informed some of the greatest plays and poetry the world has ever known.

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9781905222964 | Luath Pr, June 1, 2007, cover price $13.95 | About this edition: An account of the life and times of William Shakespeare, including maps and chronology.
9781905222230 | Luath Pr, May 30, 2007, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Not an appraisal of Shakespeare`s works but rather an `easy-read` historical account of his life plus information and descriptions about associated locations from the well-known to lesser-known sites in his life and works.

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Asserting that the age-old authorship controversy surrounding the plays of Shakespeare ought to be reopened, a syndicated columnist provides evidence that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, is a much more likely candidate to have written the classic works. 30,000 first printing. Tour. (view table of contents)

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9780684826585 | Free Pr, April 1, 1997, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Reexamines the authorship controversy surrounding the plays of Shakespeare and provides evidence that the classic works were written by Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford

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Product Description: Book by Ogburn, Charlton

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9780939009909 | Epm Pubns Inc, June 1, 1995, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Book by Ogburn, Charlton

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Discusses the theory that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by the Earl of Oxford

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9780939009671 | 2 sub edition (Epm Pubns Inc, October 1, 1992), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Discusses the theory that the works of Shakespeare were actually written by the Earl of Oxford

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Product Description: STATED FIRST EDITION. (A} PRINTING.1985 HJB softcover(trade paperback), Charles Hamilton (The Hitler Diaries: Fakes That Fooled the World). Everyone wants to pluck out the heart of Shakespeare's mystery, and Charles Hamilton believes that he has done so...read more

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9780156445535 | Harcourt, October 1, 1985, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: STATED FIRST EDITION.

Recounts the lives and careers of four American architects, Davidson, Harris, Ain, and Soriano, and describes what goals they tried to accomplish with their designs

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9780317656169 | Hennessey & Ingalls, February 1, 1984, cover price $27.50 | also contains Dagger of the Mind: Solving the Mystery of Shakespeare's Death
9780879051198 | Gibbs Smith, January 1, 1984, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Recounts the lives and careers of four American architects, Davidson, Harris, Ain, and Soriano, and describes what goals they tried to accomplish with their designs

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Product Description: Book by Pohl, Frederick Julius

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9780961142216 | Security Dupont Pr, December 1, 1983, cover price $18.00 | About this edition: Book by Pohl, Frederick Julius

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A few narrative poems and many sonnets that have shaped the language of love from the body of Shakespeare's verse. It is some of the most beautiful poetry ever written.

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9780195022117 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 21, 1977, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: A few narrative poems and many sonnets that have shaped the language of love from the body of Shakespeare's verse.

Paperback:

9780195024333 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 19, 1978, cover price $12.95

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