Living with Shakespeare: Actors, Directors, and Writers on Shakespeare in Our Time
10 best books like Living with Shakespeare: Actors, Directors, and Writers on Shakespeare in Our Time (Susannah Carson): Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?, Sissinghurst: An Unfinished History, Comedies (The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition), Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story, Will's Words: How William Shakespeare Changed the Way You Talk, Shakespeare's Restless World: A Portrait of an Era in Twenty Objects, Shakespeare's Language, The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World, Shakespeare's Bawdy, Renaissance Self-Fashioning: From More to Shakespeare
| Author | James Shapiro |
| ISBN | 1416541624 |
For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the finest body of work by a writer in the English language. In this remarkable...
| Author | Adam Nicolson |
| ISBN | 0007240546 |
The good bit is the history of the house and landscape and farming of Sissinghurst, incredibly detailed, interesting, and evocatively written. I really liked this part. Sadly this is approx 1/3 to the book to 2/3 Adam Nicolson's blow by blow account of every conversation he ever had with anyone in the...
| Author | William Shakespeare |
A vibrant Shakespeare that brings readers closer than ever before possible to Shakespeare's plays as they were first acted. The Norton Shakespeare, Based on the Oxford Edition invites readers to rediscover Shakespearethe working man of the theater, not the universal bard-and to rediscover his...
| Author | Stanley Wells |
| ISBN | 0375424946 |
From one of our most distinguished Shakespeare scholars, here is a fascinating, lively, anecdotal work of forensic biography that firmly places Shakespeare within the hectic, exhilarating world in which he lived and wrote.
Theater in Shakespeare's day was a burgeoning “growth industry."...
| Author | Jane Sutcliffe |
| ISBN | 1580896383 |
When Jane Sutcliffe sets out to write a book about William Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre, in her own words, she runs into a problem: Will's words keep popping up all over the place! What's an author to do? After all, Will is responsible for such familiar phrases as "what's done is done" and "too much...
| Author | Neil MacGregor |
| ISBN | 0670026344 |
The New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus
We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive...
| Author | Frank Kermode |
| ISBN | 0374527741 |
A magnum opus from our finest interpreter of The Bard
The true biography of Shakespeare--and the only one we need to care about--is in his plays. Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished scholar of sixteenth-century and seventeenth-century literature, has been thinking about Shakespeare's...
| Author | Paul Collins |
| ISBN | 1596911956 |
The first popular narrative history of Shakespeare's First Folio, the world's most obsessively pursued book.
One book above all others has transfixed connoisseurs for four centuries—a book sold for shillings in the streets of London, whisked to Manhattan for millions, and stored deep...
| Author | Eric Partridge |
| ISBN | 0415254000 |
This classic of Shakespeare scholarship begins with a masterly introductory essay analysing and exemplifying the various categories of sexual and non-sexual bawdy expressions and allusions in Shakespeare's plays and sonnets. The main body of the work consists of an alphabetical glossary of all...
| Author | Stephen Greenblatt |
| ISBN | 0226306593 |
Renaissance Self-Fashioning is a study of sixteenth-century life and literature that spawned a new era of scholarly inquiry. Stephen Greenblatt examines the structure of selfhood as evidenced in major literary figures of the English Renaissance—More, Tyndale, Wyatt, Spenser, Marlowe, and...
| Author | Helen Vendler |
| ISBN | 0674637127 |
Helen Vendler, widely regarded as an accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as a guide to some of the best-known poems in the English language.
In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler interprets imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing...
| Author | Ron Rosenbaum |
| ISBN | 0375503390 |
“[Ron Rosenbaum] is one of the most original journalists and writers of our time.”
–David Remnick
In The Shakespeare Wars, Ron Rosenbaum gives readers an unforgettable way of rethinking the greatest works of the human imagination. As he did in his groundbreaking Explaining Hitler,...
| Author | Tonya Bolden |
| ISBN | 0375811222 |
Here’s the perfect book for anyone interested in learning more about girls and women in the United States from the 18th century to the present. Featuring contributions from a wide variety of women, including well-known nonfiction writers, a children’s librarian, historians, and many more,...
| Author | Jonathan Bate |
| ISBN | 0330371010 |
This fascinating book by one of Britain's most acclaimed young Shakespeare scholars explores the extraordinary staying-power of Shakespeare's work.
Bate opens by taking up questions of authorship, asking, for example, Who was Shakespeare, based on the little documentary evidence we...
| Author | Marjorie Garber |
| ISBN | 0307377679 |
From one of the world’s premier Shakespeare scholars, author of Shakespeare After All (“the indispensable introduction to the indispensable writer” –Newsweek): a magisterial new study whose premise is that Shakespeare makes modern culture and that modern culture makes Shakespeare.
Shakespeare...
| Author | Arliss Ryan |
| ISBN | 0451229959 |
An inventive and vibrant historical novel about the woman who dared to be the equal of the Bard of Avon.
Dramatizing a marriage born of passion and strained by ambition, Arliss Ryan's fascinating historical novel chronicles a love affair for the ages, and the story of a woman who dares to fulfill...
| Author | Tina Packer |
| ISBN | 0307700399 |
From one of the country’s foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, actor, director, and master teacher Tina Packer offers an exploration—fierce, funny, fearless—of the women of Shakespeare’s plays. A profound, and profoundly illuminating, book that gives us the playwright’s...
The life of William Shakespeare, Britain's greatest dramatist, was inextricably linked with the history of London. Together, the great writer and the great city came of age and confronted triumph and tragedy. Triumph came when Shakespeare's company, the Chamberlain's Men, opened the Globe playhouse...
| Author | Anthony Lane |
| ISBN | 0375714340 |
Anthony Lane on Con Air—
“Advance word on Con Air said that it was all about an airplane with an unusually dangerous and potentially lethal load. Big deal. You should try the lunches they serve out of Newark. Compared with the chicken napalm I ate on my last flight, the men in Con Air are about...
This Is Running for Your Life: Essays
| Author | Michelle Orange |
| ISBN | 0374533326 |
Michelle Orange uses the lens of pop culture to decode the defining characteristics of our media-drenched times
In This Is Running for Your Life, Michelle Orange takes us from Beirut to Hawaii to her grandmother's retirement home in Canada in her quest to understand how people behave...
The Third Plantagenet: George, Duke of Clarence, Richard III's Brother
| Author | John Ashdown-Hill |
| ISBN | 0752499491 |
From the author of The Last Days of Richard III comes the first full biography of George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Kings Richard III and Edward IV
Less well-known than his brothers Edward IV and Richard III, George, Duke of Clarence has so had little written about him, that historians...
| Author | Desmond Seward |
| ISBN | 1841196789 |
For over a hundred years England repeatedly invaded France on the pretext that her kings had a right to the French throne. France was a large, unwieldy kingdom, England was small and poor, but for the most part she dominated the war, sacking towns and castles and winning battles - including such glorious...
