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Hamnet
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Hamnet

By Maggie O'Farrell ,

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Monogamy
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Monogamy

By Sue Miller ,

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Shakespeare in a Divided America: What His Plays Tell Us about Our Past and Future
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Shakespeare in a Divided America

By James Shapiro ,

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A Tip for the Hangman
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A Tip for the Hangman

By Allison Epstein ,

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This Is Shakespeare
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This Is Shakespeare

By Emma Smith ,

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The Private Life of William Shakespeare
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The Private Life of William Shakespeare

By Lena Cowen Orlin ,

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Enter Ghost
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Enter Ghost

By Isabella Hammad ,

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Goethe: His Faustian Life - The Extraordinary Story of Modern Germany, a Troubled Genius and the Poem that Made Our World
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Goethe

By A. N. Wilson ,

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Dylan at 80: It Used to Go Like That, and Now It Goes Like This
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Dylan at 80

By Gary Browning (editor) , Constantine Sandis (editor) ,

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John Hall, Master of Physicke: A Casebook from Shakespeare's Stratford
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John Hall, Master of Physicke

By Greg Wells ,

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The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus
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The Tragedy of Titus Andronicus

By William Shakespeare ,

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27 Essential Principles of Story: Master the Secrets of Great Storytelling, from Shakespeare to South Park
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27 Essential Principles of Story

By Daniel Joshua Rubin ,

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Shakespeare for Squirrels
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Shakespeare for Squirrels

By Christopher Moore ,

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Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree
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Thirteen Ways to Smell a Tree

By David George Haskell ,

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How to Think Like Shakespeare: Lessons from a Renaissance Education
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How to Think Like Shakespeare

By Scott Newstok ,

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What Is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620
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What Is a Playhouse? England at Play, 1520-1620

By Callan Davies ,

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Women Talk Back to Shakespeare: Contemporary Adaptations and Appropriations
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Women Talk Back to Shakespeare

By Jo Eldridge Carney ,

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Elanor and the Song of the Bard: The Once and Future Chronicles, Book 1
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Elanor and the Song of the Bard

By Angela R. Hughes ,

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The Greater and Lesser Worlds of Robert Fludd: Macrocosm, Microcosm, and Medicine
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The Greater and Lesser Worlds of Robert Fludd

By Joscelyn Godwin ,

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Imperfect Alchemist
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Imperfect Alchemist

By Naomi Miller ,

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Promised Rewards
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Promised Rewards

By C Flynt ,

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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)
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Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog)

By Jerome K Jerome , A Frederics (illustrator) ,

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What Was Shakespeare Really Like?
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What Was Shakespeare Really Like?

By Stanley Wells ,

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Making History: The Storytellers Who Shaped the Past
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Making History

By Richard Cohen ,

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Much Ado About Nada
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Much Ado About Nada

By Uzma Jalaluddin ,

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Lessons in Love
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Lessons in Love

By Charlie Cochrane ,

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Heartmates
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Heartmates

By Marcus Herzig ,

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Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems
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Playlist for the Apocalypse

By Rita Dove ,

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Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes: Shakespeare in 1619, Bibliography in the Longue Duree
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Ghosts, Holes, Rips and Scrapes

By Zachary Lesser ,

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Lady MacBethad
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Lady MacBethad

By Isabelle Schuler ,

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Paris in Our View: Poems Selected by Shakespeare and Company
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Paris in Our View

By Krista Halverson , Matteo Pericoli , David Delannet

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William Shakespeare: A Brief Life
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William Shakespeare

By Paul Menzer ,

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Shakespeare's Book: The Story Behind the First Folio and the Making of Shakespeare
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Shakespeare's Book

By Chris Laoutaris ,

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Tapper Watson and the Quest for the Nemo Machine
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Tapper Watson and the Quest for the Nemo Machine

By Claire Fayers ,

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Cities of Smoke and Starlight
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Cities of Smoke and Starlight

By Alli Earnest ,

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