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Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Ohio

Could the taming of Shakespeare's shrew, Katherina, happen today? Find out in this funny, off-beat version from one of our most beloved novelists 'You can't get around Kate Battista as easily as all that' Kate Battista is feeling stuck. How did she end up running house and home for her eccentric scientist father and uppity, pretty younger sister Bunny? Plus, she's always in trouble at work - her pre-school charges adore her, but the adults don't always appreciate her unusual opinions and forthright manner. Dr Battista has other problems. After years out in the academic wilderness, he is on the verge of a breakthrough. His research could help millions. There's only one problem: his brilliant young lab assistant, Pyotr, is about to be deported. And without Pyotr... When Dr Battista cooks up an outrageous plan that will enable Pyotr to stay in the country, he's relying - as usual - on Kate to help him. Kate is furious: this time he's really asking too much. But will she be able to resist the two men's touchingly ludicrous campaign to win her round? Anne Tyler's retelling of The Taming of the Shrew asks whether a thoroughly modern, independent woman like Kate would ever sacrifice herself for a man. Its answer is as individual, off-beat and funny as Kate herself. From the Hardcover edition.

Vinegar Girl

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Oregon

Guild Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet and Titus Andronicus

Delaware

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

The Sonnets of William Shakespeare

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#hardcover #classic #shakespeare There is a small tear on the back cover. Pic attached. 

West Virginia

Illustrated Tales from Shakespeare

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Pennsylvania

New boy

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Texas

Tales from Shakespeare

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A Shakespeare in the Catskills Mystery

A Catskills resort's production of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet takes a wickedly ironic turn when the leading lady, Lauren Richmond, is first poisoned and then stabbed. Who would extinguish the life of such a beautiful young thespian? Who wouldn't? Seems like just about everyone had a motive to pull the ropes on her final curtain call. At the center of this Shakespearian tragedy is Charlotte Fairfax, formerly the costume mistress of the Royal Shakespeare Company. Upstate New York is a long way from the royal stage, but Charlotte is always the queen of her domain. As this small production's costume designer, she has stitched her way into everyone's lives, learning more than anyone could possibly imagine about the rise and fall of Lauren Richmond. But curiosity killed the cat. And it might well kill the costume designer. Witty and wise work, Untimely Death, the first in Elizabeth J. Duncan's charming cozy series, is sure to delight.

Untimely Death

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1989 Doubleday Book Club Edition. A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. #fiction #classicists #hardcover #Shakespeare 

California

The Guild Shakespeare

#hardcover #nonfiction #biography #shakespeare 

Illinois

The World As Stage

William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal the man himself. Bryson documents the efforts of earlier scholars, from today's most respected academics to eccentrics like Delia Bacon, an American who developed a firm but unsubstantiated conviction that her namesake, Francis Bacon, was the true author of Shakespeare's plays. Emulating the style of his famous travelogues, Bryson records episodes in his research, including a visit to a bunkerlike room in Washington, D.C., where the world's largest collection of First Folios is housed. Bryson celebrates Shakespeare as a writer of unimaginable talent and enormous inventiveness, a coiner of phrases ("vanish into thin air," "foregone conclusion," "one fell swoop") that even today have common currency. His Shakespeare is like no one else's—the beneficiary of Bryson's genial nature, his engaging skepticism, and a gift for storytelling unrivaled in our time.

Shakespeare

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#hardcover #brain-damage #theatre #Shakespeare #mental-illness 

Minnesota

"After waking up in the hospital, Jaye returns to school to discover a mysteriously familiar boy in her class and the trappings of Shakespeare's plays all around her"--

Dreamers Often Lie

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#paperback #fiction #educational #shakespeare #drama #othello #sparknotes #theatre 

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Louisiana

Othello (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Guild Shakespeare - Volume 2 (Romeo & Juliet and Titus Andronicus)

Folger Shakespeare Library The world's leading center for Shakespeare studies Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play • Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by Coppélia Kahn The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs.

Julius Caesar

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#hardcover #Shakespeare Ex-library copy with all the usual library markings. 

A Treasury of Shakespeare's Verse

An engaging introduction to Shakespeare with more than 200 short gems of verse, arranged in thematic sections. A beautiful book that the whole family can treasure.

Something Rich and Strange

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A Modern Translation and the Original Version

Violent! Bloody! Revenge! It's not Quentin Tarantino--it's Shakespeare! And Titus Andronicus is perhaps one of the greatest revenge plays he ever wrote. Revenge is sweet--when you can understand it! Let BookCaps help with this modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic tragedy.If you have struggled in the past reading Shakespeare, then BookCaps can help you out. This book is a modern translation of Titus Andronicus.The original text is also presented in the book, along with a comparable version of both text.We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Titus Andronicus in Plain and Simple English

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The authoritative edition of Titus Andronicus from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.

Titus Andronicus is the earliest tragedy and the earliest Roman play attributed to Shakespeare. Titus, a model Roman, has led twenty-one of his twenty-five sons to death in Rome's wars; he stabs another son to death for what he views as disloyalty to Rome. Yet Rome has become "a wilderness of tigers." After a death sentence is imposed on two of his three remaining sons, and his daughter is raped and mutilated, Titus turns his loyalty toward his family.

Aaron the Moor, a magnificent villain and the empress's secret lover, makes a similar transition. After the empress bears him a child, Aaron devotes himself to preserving the baby. Retaining his thirst for evil, he shows great tenderness to his little family--a tenderness that also characterizes Titus before the terrifying conclusion.

This edition includes:
-Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play
-Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play
-Scene-by-scene plot summaries
-A key to the play's famous lines and phrases
-An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language
-An essay by a leading Shakespeare scholar providing a modern perspective on the play
-Fresh images from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books
-An annotated guide to further reading

Essay by Alexander Leggatt

The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit Folger.edu.

Titus Andronicus

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Poems of Love

T.S. Eliot once wrote that, "Shakespeare gives the greatest width of human passion," and it is this passion that has traditionally made The Sonnets appealing to literati and laymen alike. Surrounded by mystery, these poems of devotion and jealousy, of a young courtier and a Dark Lady, have been the subject of endless speculation. They are highly mystical and at the same time highly honest; as W. H. Auden wrote, "...what is astonishing about the sonnets, especially when one remembers the age in which they were written, is the impression they make of naked autobiographical confession."

Because they are witty, passionate, personal, and often ever bawdy, The Sonnets stand as one of the greatest poetic tributes ever written to a beloved. Elegantly presented in deluxe edition, these 154 beautiful poems are the perfect gift for any man or woman who has ever been in love.

The Sonnets

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Michigan

Among the few facts known about William Shakespeare's life: he was baptized on April 26, 1564, in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, England. Tradition assigns his birth to April 23; he died fifty-two years later on the same day. At eighteen he married Anne Hathaway, eight years his senior. Their daughter Susanna was born six months later, followed by twins Judith and Hamnet in 1585. The next seven years of his life are unaccounted for, but by 1592 he was well known in the London theatre world. From 1589 to 1613 he wrote the thirty-six plays (and cowrote two others) on which his fame chiefly rests, though his place in the top rank of English writers would have been secured just by his excellence as a poet. He bought one of the finest houses in Stratford in 1597 and lived there from 1610. He is buried outside Holy Trinity Church.

The Sonnets and Other Love Poems

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This text claims that the link between William Shakespeare and the works published under his name is weak, and it argues instead that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford and a literary Elizabethan courtier, is a far more plausible author than Shakespeare, the obscure country actor.

Alias Shakespeare

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Minor shelf wear on spine. Easy to read biography for kids about Shakespeare from Usborne. Series Three. #Shakespeare #kidsbook #biography #nonfiction #Usborne #educational #hardcover 

Virginia

William dreams of acting and writing plays. This ambition takes him from the quiet country town of Stratford, where he grows up, to the great playhouses of London. His talent takes the city by storm. But how will he cope with jealous rivals, strict cen

William Shakespeare

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A Posy from the Plays

Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden

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#paperback #drama #shakespeare #educational #play 

North Carolina

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare)

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#hardcover #youngadult #fiction #historical #lgbt #shakespeare #historicalfiction #ya 

North Dakota

A Kirkus 2018 Best Book of the Year! Shakespeare in Love meets Mr. and Mrs. Smith in this witty and thrilling story of star-crossed assassins in Elizabeth England, perfect for fans of My Lady Jane and The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue! When Lady Katherine's father is killed for being an illegally practicing Catholic, she discovers treason wasn't the only secret he's been hiding: he was also involved in a murder plot against the reigning Queen Elizabeth I. With nothing left to lose, Katherine disguises herself as a boy and travels to London to fulfill her father's mission, and to take it one step further -- kill the queen herself. Katherine's opportunity comes in the form of William Shakespeare's newest play, which is to be performed in front of Her Majesty. But what she doesn't know is that the play is not just a play. It's a plot to root out insurrectionists and destroy the rebellion once and for all. The mastermind behind this ruse is Toby Ellis, a young spy for the queen with secrets of his own. When Toby and Katherine are cast opposite each other as the play's leads, they find themselves inexplicably drawn to one another. But the closer they grow, the more precarious their positions become. And soon they learn that star-crossed love, mistaken identity, and betrayal are far more dangerous off the stage than on.

An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

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#nonfiction #performingarts #arts #paperback #shakespeare #theatre #art #england 

Anne Tyler

Vinegar Girl

William Shakespeare

Guild Shakespeare: Romeo & Juliet and Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare

The Sonnets of William Shakespeare

Charles Lamb

Illustrated Tales from Shakespeare

Tracy Chevalier

New boy

William Shakespeare; Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb; Elizabeth Shippen Green Elliott (Illustrator)

Tales from Shakespeare

Elizabeth J. Duncan

Untimely Death

William Shakespeare

The Guild Shakespeare

Bill Bryson

Shakespeare

Jacqueline West

Dreamers Often Lie

SparkNotes

Othello (No Fear Shakespeare)

William Shakespeare

Guild Shakespeare - Volume 2 (Romeo & Juliet and Titus Andronicus)

William Shakespeare; Barbara A. Mowat (Editor); Paul Werstine (Editor)

Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare; Gina Pollinger; Emma Chichester Clark (Illustrator)

Something Rich and Strange

William Shakespeare; BookCaps Study Guides Staff (Translator)

Titus Andronicus in Plain and Simple English

William Shakespeare; Barbara A. Mowat (Editor); Paul Werstine (Editor)

Titus Andronicus

William Shakespeare

The Sonnets

William Shakespeare

The Sonnets and Other Love Poems

Joseph Sobran

Alias Shakespeare

Rosie Dickins

William Shakespeare

Walter Crane

Flowers from Shakespeare's Garden

SparkNotes

A Midsummer Night's Dream (No Fear Shakespeare)

Virginia Boecker

An Assassin's Guide to Love and Treason

Anna Claybourne

The World of Shakespeare