Shakespeare of London
10 best books like Shakespeare of London (Marchette Gaylord Chute): A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, The Elizabethan World Picture, Shakespeare and Co.: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Dekker, Ben Jonson, Thomas Middleton, John Fletcher and the Other Players in His Story, Shakespearean Tragedy, The Book of William: How Shakespeare's First Folio Conquered the World, The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street, Shakespeare: A Life, Brush Up Your Shakespeare!, John Donne: The Reformed Soul, The Shakespeare Wars: Clashing Scholars, Public Fiascoes, Palace Coups
| Author | James Shapiro |
| ISBN | 0060088745 |
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling...
| Author | Eustace Mandeville Wetenhall Tillyard |
| ISBN | 0394701623 |
This brief & illuminating account of the ideas of world order prevalent in the Elizabethan age & later is an useful companion for readers of the great writers of the 16th & 17th centuries: Shakespeare, the Elizabethan dramatists, Donne, Milton etc. The basic medieval idea of an ordered...
| 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."...
"A.C. Bradley put Shakespeare on the map for generations of readers and students for whom the plays might not otherwise have become 'real' at all" writes John Bayley in his foreword to this edition of Shakespearean Tragedy: Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear and Macbeth.
Approaching...
| 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 | Charles Nicholl |
| ISBN | 0670018503 |
A brilliantly drawn detective story with entirely new insights into Shakespeare's life
In 1612, William Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. The case seems routine a dispute over an unpaid marriage...
| Author | Park Honan |
| ISBN | 0192825275 |
In the last ten years, virtually every previously known fact about Shakespeare has been modified by new research. Park Honan draws on this new information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright.
Here is virtually all that can be factually known or reasonably...
| Author | Michael Macrone |
| ISBN | 0517189356 |
A very enlightening book on various Shakespearean quotes that are commonly used today by many individuals without any knowledge, however, as to their origin and true meaning. The author writes in a fun whimsical way yet clearly explaining the definition of the words or phrases. In the back of the book...
| Author | John Stubbs |
| ISBN | 0393062600 |
Metamorphosing from scholar to buccaneer, from outcast to establishment figure, John Donne emerged as one of the greatest English poets, concentrating the paradoxes of his age within his own crises of desire and devotion. Following Donne from Plague-ridden streets to palaces, from the taverns...
| 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 | Arthur O. Lovejoy |
| ISBN | 0674361539 |
From later antiquity down to the close of the eighteenth century, most philosophers and men of science and, indeed, most educated men, accepted without question a traditional view of the plan and structure of the world. In this volume, which embodies the William James lectures for 1933, Arthur O. Lovejoy...
The Victorian Age in Literature
‘I was born a Victorian; and sympathise not a little with the serious Victorian Spirit.’ In this engaging and extremely personal account G K Chesterton expounds his views on Victorian literature. Many of his opinions reflect the conventions of the age; however of the Victorian novel he refreshingly...
| Author | F. Scott Fitzgerald |
A collection of pieces that F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote for various publications that the editor James L. W. West put together showing his memoir writing. What's fascinating to me was that Fitzgerald was extremely famous at the time of these articles - so he conveys himself as a character that the public...
| Author | Neil Hanson |
| ISBN | 1400078172 |
The story of the Spanish Armada is one of the great epics, with a cast of characters as rich and varied as any in history and results that shaped Europe for centuries to come. Neil Hanson — acclaimed author of The Great Fire of London — traces the origins of the conflict from the Old World to the New, delineating...
| Author | Virginia Woolf |
| ISBN | 0156029324 |
"Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the gloves herself. Big Ben was striking as she stepped out into the street. It was eleven o'clock and the unused hour was fresh as if issued to children on a beach."
-from "Mrs. Dalloway in Bond Street"
The landmark modern novel Mrs. Dalloway creates a portrait...
| Author | Rosemary Sutcliff |
| ISBN | 0099401649 |
As the author states in the preface, this book mostly adapts Malory's Morte D'Arthur into modern English prose, with a few chapters based on other sources or Sutcliff's own invention. I first read this as a child after The Sword in the Stone but before any other Arthuriana; I think that's a very good way...
| Author | Walter C. Langer |
| ISBN | 0465046207 |
The Mind of Adolf Hitler. The Secret Wartime Report written by Walter C. Langer Forward by William L. Langer, and afterword by Robert G.L Waite. Published by Basic Books, Inc. New York 1972 First Edition. HERE IS the secret psychological report written in 1943 for "Wild Bill" Donovan of the OSS, which...
| Author | C.S. Lewis |
| ISBN | 0156027682 |
“In life and art both, as it seems to me, we are always trying to catch in our net of successive moments something that is not successive . . . But I think it is sometimes done—or very, very nearly done—in stories.”
C.S. Lewis is widely known for his fiction, especially his stories of science...
