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| Author | : Doug Stewart |
| Publisher | : Da Capo Press |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2010-03-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0306819007 |
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 |
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
| Author | : Stephen Greenblatt |
| Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
| Total Pages | : 441 |
| Release | : 2010-05-03 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0393079848 |
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 | : Elise Broach |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 276 |
| Release | : 2007-08-21 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780312371326 |
A missing diamond, a mysterious neighbor, a link to Shakespeare—can Hero uncover the connections?
| Author | : Paul Collins |
| Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
| Total Pages | : 256 |
| Release | : 2009-07-07 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1596911956 |
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 |
'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 | : Jake Wizner |
| Publisher | : Random House Books for Young Readers |
| Total Pages | : 306 |
| Release | : 2007-09-25 |
| Genre | : Young Adult Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0375890866 |
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 | : Peter Chrisp |
| Publisher | : DK Children |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Authors, English |
| ISBN | : 9780756607234 |
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 | : Ronald Koertge |
| Publisher | : Candlewick Press |
| Total Pages | : 177 |
| Release | : 2012-03-13 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0763658529 |
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 | : Susan Cooper |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 5 |
| Release | : 2012-03-06 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0689845782 |
Only in the world of the theater can Nat Field find an escape from the tragedies that have shadowed his young life. So he is thrilled when he is chosen to join an American drama troupe traveling to London to perform A Midsummer Night's Dream in a new replica of the famous Globe theater. Shortly after arriving in England, Nat goes to bed ill and awakens transported back in time four hundred years -- to another London, and another production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Amid the bustle and excitement of an Elizabethan theatrical production, Nat finds the warm, nurturing father figure missing from his life -- in none other than William Shakespeare himself. Does Nat have to remain trapped in the past forever, or give up the friendship he's so longed for in his own time?
