Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
By: Tina Packer
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
From one of the country's foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, actor, director, and ma…
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1. Antigone
By: Jean Anouilh , Lewis Galantibre
3.78
Format: 72 pages, Paperback
Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Eu… read more
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"My part is not a heroic one, but I shall play my part."-Jean Anouilh, Antigone
"It bothered me that whatever was waiting wasn't waiting for me"-Jean Anouilh, Antigone
"Antigone — Et serre moi. Plus fort que tu ne m'as jamais serrée. Que toute ta force s'imprime dans moi. Hémon — Là. De toute ma force."-Jean Anouilh, Antigone
"ANTIGONE: Tell me the truth! I beg you to tell me the truth! When you think about me, when it strikes you suddenly that I am going to belong to you―do you have the feeling that―that a great empty spa…"-Jean Anouilh, Antigone
2. The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
By: Philippa Gregory
3.91
Format: 518 pages, Hardcover
Three Women Who Share One Fate: The Boleyn Inheritance Anne of Cleves She runs from her tiny c… read more
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"A woman cannot prove her innocence when a man bears witness against her."-Philippa Gregory, The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
"He is a young man with a future of power and opportunity and we are young women destined to be either wives and mothers at the very best, or spinster parasites at the worst."-Philippa Gregory, The Boleyn Inheritance (The Plantagenet and Tudor Novels, #10)
3. The Children of Jocasta
By: Natalie Haynes
3.91
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
My siblings and I have grown up in a cursed house, children of cursed parents... Jocasta is just… read more
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4. Twelfth Night
By: William Shakespeare , Folger Shakespeare Library
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Named for the twelfth night after Christmas, the end of the Christmas season, Twelfth Night plays w… read more
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"a raven's heart within a dove."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"I pity you That's a degree to love"-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."-William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
5. 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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7. Women of Will: Following the Feminine in Shakespeare's Plays
By: Tina Packer
3.78
Format: 377 pages, Hardcover
From one of the country's foremost experts on Shakespeare and theatre arts, actor, director, and ma… read more
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- history
- feminism
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- nonfiction
- plays
- books about books
- literary criticism
8. 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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9. Angels in America
By: Tony Kushner
3.79
Format: 248 pages,
In two full-length plays--Millennium Approaches and Perestroika--Kushner tells the story of a handf… read more
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10. Elizabeth's Women: Friends, Rivals, and Foes Who Shaped the Virgin Queen
By: Tracy Borman
3.95
Format: None pages,
A source of endless fascination and speculation, the subject of countless biographies, novels, and … read more
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- nonfiction
- history
11. As You Like It
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
3.59
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
As You Like Itis a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or … read more
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12. The Taming of the Shrew
By: William Shakespeare
3.78
Format: 438 pages,
Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young … read more
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13. Fences (The Century Cycle #6)
By: August Wilson
4.23
Format: 690 pages,
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture directed by Denzel Washington, and starring Denzel Washington and… read more
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14. She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth
By: Helen Castor
3.80
Format: 275 pages, Hardcover
When Edward VI - Henry VIII's longed-for son - died in 1553, extraordinarily, there was no one left… read more
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15. Much Ado About Nothing
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine , Gail Kern Paster , None
3.92
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
The action is set in Sicily, where Don Pedro, Prince of Aragon, has recently defeated his half-brot… read more
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16. 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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17. 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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18. Measure for Measure
By: William Shakespeare , Barbara A. Mowat , Paul Werstine
4.38
Format: 83 pages, Paperback
Measure for Measureis among the most passionately discussed of Shakespeare's plays. In it, a duke t… read more
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19. Macbeth
By: Jo Nesbø
3.17
Format: None pages, Paperback
Set in a dark, rainy northern town, Nesbo's Macbethpits the ambitions of a corrupt policeman agains… read more
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20. The Antique Hunter's Guide to Murder
By: C.L. Miller
3.37
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious d… read more
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21. 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
22. The Goodbye Cat
By: Hiro Arikawa
3.90
Format: 285 pages, ebook
In the much-anticipated follow-up to the bestselling and beloved The Travelling Cat Chronicles , se… read more
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"If you can make it in time, you want to say goodbye. Want to say thank you, and I love you."-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat
"If, for instance, I were the one who had to say goodbye, I don’t think I’d want my final hours to be sad. I would want to see my loved ones’ smiles to the very end."-Hiro Arikawa, The Goodbye Cat
23. Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
By: Natalie Haynes
4.05
Format: 259 pages, Hardcover
New York Times bestselling author Natalie Haynes returns to the world of ancient Greek myth in thi… read more
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- nonfiction
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"The distinction that only sciences are useful and only arts are spirit-enhancing is a nonsensical one. I couldn't write much without scientists designing my computer. And some of them must want to re…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
"According to Hesiod's Theogony , Rhea gives birth to the following children in this order: Hestia, Demeter, Hera, Hades, Poseidon, and Zeus. Kronos swallows each of the first five deities, and Rhea i…"-Natalie Haynes, Divine Might: Goddesses in Greek Myth
24. Everybody
By: Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
3.84
Format: 55 pages, None
This modern riff on the fifteenth-century morality play Everyman follows Everybody (chosen from amo… read more
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25. Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
By: Anna Bogutskaya
3.72
Format: 340 pages, Paperback
How bitches, trainwrecks, shrews, and crazy women have taken over pop culture and liberated women f… read more
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- nonfiction
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"All high school experiences are inherently dramatic because they are being experienced for the first time."-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"Unlikeable" is code. It's code for "fair game." If a woman in unlikable, she is stepping out of bounds. Which makes it fair game to decimate her socially, emotionally, or physically. Likeability give…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"In 2015, a study about jury deliberation bias conducted at Arizona State University found that "when men expressed their opinion with anger, participants rated them as more credible, which made them …"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
"When men get angry onscreen, they're angry at the system. When women are angry onscreen, they're angry at someone. Women are not allowed to be angry at the system, because that would be a tacit accep…"-Anna Bogutskaya, Unlikeable Female Characters: The Women Pop Culture Wants You to Hate
26. 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
27. 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
28. Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
By: Benjamin Dreyer
4.35
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
A witty, informative guide to writing "good English" from Random House's longtime copy chief and on… read more
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"I had no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up, which is a problem when you've already grown up"-Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
"And that’s often the problem, isn’t it? In writing and in so many things: that we accept things we’re taught without thinking about them at all."-Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
"He implied without saying." ...I scarcely had the heart to cross out "without quite saying" and to note in the margin, politely and succinctly, ""-Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
"As a lexicographer friend once confided over sushi, the dictionary takes its cues from use: If writers don’t change things, the dictionary doesn’t change things."-Benjamin Dreyer, Dreyer's English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
29. Queen Hereafter
By: Isabelle Schuler
4.03
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
“Suspenseful, atmospheric and full of twists and turns, I loved the brutal, backstabbing world that… read more
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30. John Proctor is the Villain
By: Kimberly Belflower
4.61
Format: 178 pages, ebook
In present day Appalachian Georgia, a high school class explores the seminal American classic, The … read more
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31. Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind
By: Harold Bloom
3.73
Format: 160 pages, Hardcover
From the greatest Shakespeare scholar of our time, comes a portrait of Macbeth, one of William Shak… read more
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