Fascinating facts on daily life, status, and customs in Shakespeare's England.
About Shakespeare
The Library has a variety of books available in print or online on William Shakespeare. Browse the library shelves in the following Dewey Decimal ranges for materials related to Shakespeare and his time:
Authoritative, visually exciting, and entertaining guide to all things Shakespeare, explaining the themes, plots, and contexts of his works, their literary and cultural significance, and uncovering some of the mystery of the man himself.
Bringing to bear an encyclopedic awareness of the critical tradition, Nuttall zeroes in on key themes that dominate Shakespeare's thinking across his oeuvre, including motive, identity, imagination, ethics, and subjectivity.
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Exploring and exploding 30 popular myths about the great playwright, this illuminating new online book evaluates all the evidence to show how historical material-or its absence-can be interpreted and misinterpreted, and what this reveals about our own personal investment in the stories we tell.
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Potter has combined her expertise as scholar and theater critic to provide an exciting, thorough examination of Shakespeare's life and work, in this eBook.
Intended for students just beginning their exploration of Shakespeare, these invaluable study guides present the best of Shakespeare criticism, from the 17th century to today. In the process, each of the fifteen volumes also chart the flow over time of critical discussion of a particular work.