The Boy Who Would Be Shakespeare
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Author | : Doug Stewart |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2010-03-23 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0306819007 |
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In the winter of 1795, a frustrated young writer named William Henry Ireland stood petrified in his father's study as two of England's most esteemed scholars interrogated him about a tattered piece of paper that he claimed to have found in an old trunk. It was a note from William Shakespeare. Or was it? In the months that followed, Ireland produced a torrent of Shakespearean fabrications: letters, poetry, drawings -- even an original full-length play that would be hailed as the Bard's lost masterpiece and staged at the Drury Lane Theatre. The documents were forensically implausible, but the people who inspected them ached to see first hand what had flowed from Shakespeare's quill. And so they did. This dramatic and improbable story of Shakespeare's teenaged double takes us to eighteenth century London and brings us face-to-face with history's most audacious forger.
Author | : James Shapiro |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1416541632 |
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Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author | : Elise Broach |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2007-08-21 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780312371326 |
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A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare—can Hero uncover the connections?
Author | : Stephen Greenblatt |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2010-05-03 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0393079848 |
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Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Author | : Paul Collins |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2009-07-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1596911956 |
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A history of the Bard's competitively pursued First Folio traces the author's travels from the site of a Sotheby auction to regions in Asia, throughout which he investigated the roles played by those who have sought and owned the Folios.
Author | : Tracy Chevalier |
Publisher | : Arrow |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Betrayal |
ISBN | : 9781784700249 |
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'A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue' Daily Express The bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealousy, bullying and revenge. Arriving at his fourth school in six years, diplomat's son Osei knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day - so he's lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student can't stand to witness this budding relationship- Ian decides to destroy the friendship between the black boy and the golden girl. By the end of the day, the school and its key players - teachers and pupils alike - will never be the same again. The tragedy of Othello is transposed to a 1970s suburban Washington schoolyard in Tracy Chevalier's powerful drama of friends torn apart.
Author | : Peter Chrisp |
Publisher | : DK Children |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780756607234 |
Download Shakespeare Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Be an eyewitness to one of the world's greatest playwrights -- from his Elizabethan world and the stories that inspired him, to boy actors playing women and dramatic special effects. Find out how music was used in plays. Discover what Shakespeare did when the theaters were closed due to plague. See what the interior of the Globe theater looked like. Book jacket.
Author | : Jake Wizner |
Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2007-09-25 |
Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
ISBN | : 0375890866 |
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SHAKESPEARE SHAPIRO HAS ALWAYS hated his name. His parents bestowed it on him as some kind of sick joke when he was born, and his life has gone downhill from there, one embarrassing incident after another. Entering his senior year of high school, Shakespeare has never had a girlfriend, his younger brother is cooler than he is, and his best friend's favorite topic of conversation is his bowel movements.But Shakespeare will have the last laugh. He is chronicling every mortifying detail in his memoir, the writing project each senior at Shakespeare's high school must complete. And he is doing it brilliantly. And, just maybe, a prize-winning memoir will bring him respect, admiration, and a girlfriend . . . or at least a prom date.
Author | : Ronald Koertge |
Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012-03-13 |
Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | : 0763658529 |
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Fourteen-year-old Kevin Boland, poet and first baseman, is torn between his cute girlfriend Mira and Amy, who is funny, plays Chopin on the piano, and is also a poet.
Author | : Jess Winfield |
Publisher | : Hachette+ORM |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2008-07-08 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0446537675 |
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"Utterly delicious, original, witty, hilarious and brilliant. Shakespeare In Love on magic mushrooms. The Bard has never been this much fun." -- Christopher Buckley, author of Boomsday and Thank You For Smoking A Tale of two Shakespeares... Struggling UC Santa Cruz grad student Willie Shakespeare Greenberg is trying to write his thesis about the Bard. Kind of... Cut off by his father for laziness, and desperate for dough, Willie agrees to deliver a single giant, psychedelic mushroom to a mysterious collector, making himself an unwitting target in Ronald Reagan's War on Drugs. Meanwhile, would-be playwright (and oppressed Catholic) William Shakespeare is eighteen years old and stuck teaching Latin in the boondocks of Stratford-upon-Avon. The future Bard's life is turned upside down when a stranger entrusts him with a sacred relic from Rome... This, at a time when adherents of the "Old Faith" are being hanged, drawn, and quartered as traitors. Seemingly separated in time and place, the lives of Willie and William begin to intersect in curious ways, from harrowing encounters with the law (and a few ex-girlfriends) to dubious experiments with mind-altering substances. Their misadventures could be dismissed as youthful folly. But wise or foolish, the bold choices they make will shape not only the 'Shakespeare' each is destined to come... but the very course of history itself.