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An annotated edition of Shakespeare's tragicomedy in which an unjust Viennese deputy offers to lift a death sentence from a young woman's brother in return for sexual favors from her; also includes essays on Shakespeare's theatrical world and his texts, and a scholarly introduction.
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
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English
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On May 30, 1593, Christopher Marlowe was killed in a tavern brawl in London. That is the official version. Was his death an elaborate ruse to avoid conviction for heresy, and did he flee to an island in the English Channel and continue to write plays and poetry, hiding behind the man known as William Shakespeare? This is is own story.
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Interred with their bones volume 1
Publisher
Dutton
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English
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"A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found. A killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities. A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive." "On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, however, terrifying echoes...
14) Why Shakespeare?
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National Endowment for the Arts
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English
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17) Anonymous
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Columbia Pictures Industries
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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Was Shakespeare a fraud? Who really wrote about cloak-and -dagger political intrigue, illicit romances in the Royal Court, and the schemes of greedy nobles hungry for power of the throne? Intrigue and suspense advance the theory that it was really Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays.
18) Macbeth
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English
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Set in the 1970s in a run-down, industrial town, a police force struggles to shed an incessant drug problem. Duncan, the chief of police, is idealistic and visionary, a dream to the townspeople, but a nightmare for criminals. The drug trade is ruled by two drug lords, one of whom, a master of manipulation named Hecate, has connections with the highest in power, and plans to use them to get his way.