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California

Art, music, drama/theater

Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Andrew Gurr

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Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

Massachusetts

The Extraordinary Life of the Most Successful Writer of All Time

William Shakespeare

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New Jersey

A Screenplay

The screenplay to the critically acclaimed film which New York Newsday called one of the funniest, most enchanting, most romantic, and best written tales ever spun from the vast legend of Shakespeare. Marc Norman and renowned dramatist, Tom Stoppard have created the best screenplay of the year according to the Golden Globes and the New York Film Critics Circle.

Shakespeare in Love

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Christopher Moore

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Maryland

A Novel

"Set adrift by his pirate crew, Pocket of Dog Snogging--last seen in The Serpent of Venice--washes up on the sun-bleached shores of Greece, where he hopes to dazzle the Duke with his comedic brilliance and become his trusted fool. But the island is in turmoil. Egeus, the Duke's minister, is furious that his daughter Hermia is determined to marry Lysander instead of Demetrius, the man he has chosen for her. The Duke decrees that if, by the time of the wedding, Hermia still refuses to marry Demetrius, she shall be executed ... or consigned to a nunnery. Pocket, being Pocket, cannot help but point out that this decree is complete bollocks, and that the Duke is an egregious weasel for having even suggested it. Irritated by the fool's impudence, the Duke orders his death. With the Duke's guards in pursuit, Pocket makes a daring escape. He soon stumbles into the wooded realm of the fairy king Oberon, who, as luck would have it, is short a fool. His jester Robin Goodfellow--the mischievous sprite better known as Puck--was found dead. Murdered. Oberon makes Pocket an offer he can't refuse: he will make Pocket his fool and have his death sentence lifted if Pocket finds out who killed Robin Goodfellow. But as anyone who is even vaguely aware of the Bard's most performed play ever will know, nearly every character has a motive for wanting the mischievous sprite dead. With too many suspects and too little time, Pocket must work his own kind of magic to find the truth, save his neck, and ensure that all ends well"--

Shakespeare for Squirrels

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Karen Harper

Virginia

A delicious and intriguing historical novel about the woman who was William Shakespeare's secret wife by New York Times bestselling author, Karen Harper. In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan beauty Anne Whateley reveals intimate details of her dangerous, daring life and her great love, William Shakespeare. As historical records show, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton is betrothed to Will just days before he is forced to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery. The clandestine Whateley/Shakespeare match is a meeting of hearts and heads that no one - not even Queen Elizabeth or her spymasters - can destroy. From rural Stratford-upon- Avon to teeming London, the passionate pair struggles to stay solvent and remain safe from Elizabeth I's campaign to hunt down secret Catholics, of whom Shakespeare is rumored to be a part. Often at odds, always in love, the couple sells Will's first plays and, as he climbs to theatrical power in Elizabeth's England, they fend off fierce competition from rival London dramatists, ones as treacherous as they are talented. Persecution and plague, insurrection and inferno, friends and foes, even executions of those they hold dear, bring Anne's heartrending story to life. Spanning half a century of Elizabethan and Jacobean history and sweeping from the lowest reaches of society to the royal court, this richly textured novel tells the real story of Shakespeare in love.

Mistress Shakespeare

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Harold Bloom

Heavy Paperback (2 to 4 lbs)

New York

The Invention of the Human

"The indispensable critic on the indispensable writer." -Geoffrey O'Brien, New York Review of Books A landmark achievement as expansive, erudite, and passionate as its renowned author, this book is the culmination of a lifetime of reading, writing about, and teaching Shakespeare. Preeminent literary critic-and ultimate authority on the western literary tradition, Harold Bloom leads us through a comprehensive reading of every one of the dramatist's plays, brilliantly illuminating each work with unrivaled warmth, wit and insight. At the same time, Bloom presents one of the boldest theses of Shakespearean scholarships: that Shakespeare not only invented the English language, but also created human nature as we know it today.

Shakespeare: Invention of the Human

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North Carolina

William Shakespeare Rewritten by You

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Charles Lamb

Mary Lamb

Judi Dench

Georgia

Presents prose retellings of Shakespeare's best-known comedies and tragedies, including "Hamlet," "Romeo and Juliet," and "Othello."

Tales from Shakespeare

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English

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.

King Lear (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Justin Richards

Sticker remnant on back cover, see photos. 

Pennsylvania

Newly discovered entries and drawings in William Shakespeare’s journals reveal for the first time the astounding relationship between the great Bard and the Doctor. Since his first adventure in 1963, the Doctor has enjoyed many encounters with William Shakespeare. Now, BBC Books has rediscovered notebooks, long thought lost, compiled by the Bard in which he divulges the influential role the Doctor played in his creative life. Here are the original notes for Hamlet, including a very different appearance by the ghost; early versions of great lines (“To reverse or not to reverse the polarity of the neutron flow”); the true story of how the faeries of A Midsummer Night’s Dream were first imagined; stage directions for plays adjusted to remove references to a mysterious blue box; and much, much more.

Doctor Who: the Shakespeare Notebooks

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Ann Thompson

This new Complete Works marks the completion of the Arden Shakespeare Third Series and includes the complete plays, poems and sonnets, edited by leading international scholars. New to this edition are the 'apocryphal' plays, part-written by Shakespeare: Double Falsehood, Sir Thomas More and King Edward III. The anthology is unique in giving all three extant texts of Hamlet from Shakespeare's time: the first and second Quarto texts of 1603 and 1604-5, and the first Folio text of 1623. With a simple alphabetical arrangement the Complete Works are easy to navigate, and the reader's understanding and enjoyment are enhanced by the general introduction, short individual introductions to each text, a glossary and a bibliography. This handsome volume is ideal for readers keen to explore Shakespeare's work and for anyone building their literary library.

Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

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James Shapiro

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

South Carolina

What accounts for Shakespeare's transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe)

1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, 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 East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.

James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare's staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

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Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

Ohio

Michael Macrone

From the author of RHVP's Brush Up... series comes a collection of lewd lines, offensive oaths, and absolutely politically incorrect ideas from the bawdiest bard of them all!

Naughty Shakespeare

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Reading & Language Arts

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Facsimile of the 1909 Edition

TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE ARTHUR RACKHAM

Florida

Othello (No Fear Shakespeare)

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Life-Changing Adventures with the Bard

One man’s post-retirement passion for the works of history's greatest literary genius becomes an inspiring intellectual and spiritual adventure--and a lesson in the ageless wisdom to be found in literature. In the twilight of a successful career as a book editor, Herman Gollob attended a superb Broadway production of Hamlet with Ralph Fiennes. The experience proved so galvanizing that it ignited a latent passion for literary scholarship and for all things Shakespearean. Shedding the drudgery of fixing halt and lame manuscripts, he engaged in a fever of self-education via a vast array of books, videotapes, performances, and lectures--becoming, as he put it, "an old man made mad by love of Shakespeare." In short order, he became so well versed that he began teaching a popular Shakespeare course for seniors at a small local college in New Jersey. He then made a visit to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.; sought out encounters with great actors and directors--including Olympia Dukakis, Michael Kahn, David Suchet, John Barton, and Cicely Berry; took a summer course on Shakespeare at Oxford; and made a pilgrimage to the Globe Theatre in London to see, of course, Hamlet. This late-blooming Bardomania even enriched the growth of his Jewish identity, resulting in a uniquely Hebraic theory about King Lear. In relating this tale of an autodidact's progress, Gollob interweaves his rich family history, personal experience, and past meetings with the great and notorious, including Orson Welles, James Jones, Lee Marvin, Frank Sinatra, Donald Barthelme, James Clavell, Dan Jenkins, Willie Morris, and a host of others. Like Great Books by David Denby, Me and Shakespeare is a memoir that attests to the lifelong power of literature to enrich, enlarge, and exalt. It is, as well, one of the most entertaining and unusual books on Shakespeare ever written.

Me and Shakespeare, The caveman Valentine

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Marc Norman

Tom Stoppard

Some slight wear on the edges of the cover

Tennessee

John Michell

Reprinted from 1st pbk. ed., published in 1999. Originally published in hardcover in 1996.

Who Wrote Shakespeare?

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Read Shakespeare's plays in all their brilliance--and understand what every word means!
 
Don't be intimidated by Shakespeare! These popular guides make the Bard's plays accessible and enjoyable.

Each No Fear guide contains:

 * The complete text of the original play
 * A line-by-line translation that puts Shakespeare into everyday language
 * A complete list of characters with descriptions
 * Plenty of helpful commentary

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Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)

Andrew Gurr

William Shakespeare

Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard

Shakespeare in Love

Christopher Moore

Shakespeare for Squirrels

Karen Harper

Mistress Shakespeare

Harold Bloom

Shakespeare: Invention of the Human

Joelle Herr

William Shakespeare Rewritten by You

Charles Lamb; Mary Lamb; Judi Dench

Tales from Shakespeare

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King Lear (No Fear Shakespeare)

Justin Richards

Doctor Who: the Shakespeare Notebooks

Ann Thompson

Arden Shakespeare Third Series Complete Works

James Shapiro

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Christopher Moore

Shakespeare for Squirrels

Michael Macrone

Naughty Shakespeare

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Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)

Charles and Mary Lamb

TALES FROM SHAKESPEARE ARTHUR RACKHAM

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Othello (No Fear Shakespeare)

Herman Gollob

Me and Shakespeare, The caveman Valentine

Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard

Shakespeare in Love

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Romeo and Juliet (No Fear Shakespeare)

John Michell

Who Wrote Shakespeare?

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Henry IV Parts One and Two (No Fear Shakespeare)

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