Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." ―Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare …
Want to Read $ 9.99"He [Cade] promises to make England great again. How will he do that? He shows the crowd at once: he attacks education."-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
"Shakespeare grappled again and again with a deeply unsettling question: how is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant?"-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
"...although the absurdity of the demagogue’s rhetoric was blatantly obvious, the laughter it elicited did not for a minute diminish its menace. Cade and his followers will not slink away because the traditional political elite and the entirety of the educated populace regard him as a jackass."-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
"The absurdity of these campaign promises is not an impediment to their effectiveness. On the contrary: Cade keeps producing demonstrable falsehoods about his origins and making wild claims about the great things he will do, and the crowds eagerly swallow them. To be sure, his neighbors know that Cade is a congenital liar."-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
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1. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599
By: James Shapiro
4.08
Format: 333 pages, Paperback
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous pl… read more
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2. The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606
By: James Shapiro
4.06
Format: 367 pages, Hardcover
Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 aff… read more
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3. Troilus and Cressida
By: William Shakespeare , Louis B. Wright , Virginia A. LaMar
3.75
Format: 320 pages, Mass Market Paperback
The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third… read more
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4. Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?
By: James Shapiro
3.80
Format: None pages,
For more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had writt… read more
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5. Henry IV, Part 2 (Wars of the Roses, #3)
By: William Shakespeare
3.57
Format: 24 pages, Paperback
The stirring continuation of the themes begun in Henry IV, Part Oneagain pits a rebellion within th… read more
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6. Coriolanus
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill
3.30
Format: 215 pages, Paperback
Shakespeare's last tragedy explores the career and death of a brilliant and arrogant Roman general.… read more
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7. Richard III
By: William Shakespeare , John Jowett
3.37
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular plays on the stage and has been adapted successful… read more
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8. Henry V
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.00
Format: 126 pages, Paperback
Henry Vis Shakespeare's most famous "war play"; it includes the storied English victory over the Fr… read more
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9. King Henry VI, Part 3
By: William Shakespeare , Eric Rasmussen , John D. Cox
4.11
Format: 500 pages, Paperback
In their lively and engaging edition of this sometimes neglected early play, Cox and Rasmussen make… read more
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10. King Henry VI, Part 2
By: William Shakespeare , Christopher Marlowe , None
3.57
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
This edition celebrates King Henry VI Part 2as one of the most exciting and dynamic plays of the En… read more
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11. King Henry IV, Part 1 (Wars of the Roses, #2)
By: William Shakespeare , David Scott Kastan
3.87
Format: None pages, Paperback
David Scott Kastan lucidly explores the remarkable richness and the ambitious design of King Henry … read more
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12. Richard II
By: William Shakespeare , Roma Gill , None
3.91
Format: 385 pages, Paperback
Richard II is one of Shakespeare's finest works: lucid, eloquent, and boldly structured. It can be … read more
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13. Septology
By: Jon Fosse
4.52
Format: 825 pages, Paperback
The celebrated Norwegian novelist’s magnum opus, shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, pu… read more
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"and what the picture is in reality is this spirit, that’s what a picture really is, neither matter nor soul but both parts at the same time and together they make up what I think of as spirit, and ma…"-Jon Fosse, Septology
14. Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
By: Judi Dench
4.56
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
Discover the work of the greatest writer in the English language as you've never encountered it bef… read more
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"There's magic to be mined in mistakes."-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
"[Judi Dench, referring to departed colleagues] Where are all those people? Can't believe it. How can it happen? They were so alive and -- so present, so vital. That's why we have to love the now, hav…"-Judi Dench, Shakespeare: The Man Who Pays the Rent
15. Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World
By: Mary Beard
4.11
Format: 493 pages, Hardcover
A sweeping account of the social and political world of the Roman emperors by “the world’s most fam… read more
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16. This Is Shakespeare
By: Emma Smith
4.25
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An electrifying new study that investigates the challenges of the Bard's inconsistencies and flaws,… read more
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"Shakespeare is complex, like living, not technically and crackably difficult, like crosswords or changing the time on the cooker"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
"The Comedy of Errors has been consistently under-appreciated, I’d argue, in part because we don’t know how to appreciate plot. Contemporary culture, the study and performance of Shakespeare, and our …"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
"Even though – perhaps because – we are in no doubt about his ruthless self-interest, Richard establishes an immediate alliance from the outset. This intimacy with the audience will be carefully manag…"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
"You may recall – perhaps you’ve experienced this in the theatre – the bewilderingly oblique way Shakespeare tends to begin his plays, via marginal characters whom we struggle to place as they recount…"-Emma Smith, This Is Shakespeare
17. Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
By: Stephen Greenblatt
4.11
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
"Brilliant, beautifully organized, exceedingly readable." ―Philip Roth World-renowned Shakespeare … read more
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"He [Cade] promises to make England great again. How will he do that? He shows the crowd at once: he attacks education."-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
"Shakespeare grappled again and again with a deeply unsettling question: how is it possible for a whole country to fall into the hands of a tyrant?"-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
"...although the absurdity of the demagogue’s rhetoric was blatantly obvious, the laughter it elicited did not for a minute diminish its menace. Cade and his followers will not slink away because the …"-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
"The absurdity of these campaign promises is not an impediment to their effectiveness. On the contrary: Cade keeps producing demonstrable falsehoods about his origins and making wild claims about the …"-Stephen Greenblatt, Tyrant: Shakespeare on Politics
18. Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
By: James Shapiro
4.10
Format: 286 pages, Hardcover
From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about o… read more
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19. The Blazing World: A New History of Revolutionary England, 1603-1689
By: Jonathan Healey
4.20
Format: 492 pages, Hardcover
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20. Death by Shakespeare: Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
By: Kathryn Harkup
3.94
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
An in-depth look at the science behind the creative methods Shakespeare used to kill off his charac… read more
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21. Cuckooland: Where the Rich Own the Truth
By: Tom Burgis
3.79
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