Shakespeare's Self-portrait
Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 212
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Author: William Shakespeare
Publisher: MacMillan
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 212
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 15
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Alfred Leslie Rowse
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Published: 1985
Total Pages: 187
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tarnya Cooper
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2006-01-01
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 030011611X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInvestigates the authenticity of the Chandos portrait and five others as true likenesses of playwright William Shakespeare, and explores Shakespeare's life and world, presenting and describing individual costumes, theater models, manuscripts, and maps from his time as well as portraits of his contemporaries.
Author: Neil MacGregor
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1101638117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe New York Times bestselling author of A History of the World in 100 Objects brings the world of Shakespeare and the Tudor era of Elizabeth I into focus We feel we know Shakespeare’s characters. Think of Hamlet, trapped in indecision, or Macbeth’s merciless and ultimately self-destructive ambition, or the Machiavellian rise and short reign of Richard III. They are so vital, so alive and real that we can see aspects of ourselves in them. But their world was at once familiar and nothing like our own. In this brilliant work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, bring us twenty objects that capture the essence of Shakespeare’s universe. A perfect complement to A History of the World in 100 Objects, MacGregor’s landmark New York Times bestseller, Shakespeare’s Restless World highlights a turning point in human history. This magnificent book, illustrated throughout with more than one hundred vibrant color photographs, invites you to travel back in history and to touch, smell, and feel what life was like at that pivotal moment, when humankind leaped into the modern age. This was an exhilarating time when discoveries in science and technology altered the parameters of the known world. Sir Francis Drake’s circumnavigation map allows us to imagine the age of exploration from the point of view of one of its most ambitious navigators. A bishop’s cup captures the most sacred and divisive act in Christendom. With A History of the World in 100 Objects, MacGregor pioneered a new way of telling history through artifacts. Now he trains his eye closer to home, on a subject that has mesmerized him since childhood, and lets us see Shakespeare and his world in a whole new light.
Author: Stephanie Nolen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-06-15
Total Pages: 391
ISBN-13: 1451603894
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA fascinating literary detective story charting the surprising, true history of a recently discovered painting of Shakespeare held by the same family for 400 years -- adding new drama to the Bard's life. When author Stephanie Nolen reported the discovery of the only portrait of William Shakespeare painted while he was alive, the announcement ignited furious controversy around the world. Now, in this provocative biography of the portrait, she tells the riveting story of how a rare image of the young Bard at thirty-nine came to reside in the suburban home of a retired engineer, whose grandmother kept the family treasure under her bed, and how he embarked on authenticating it. The ultimate Antiques Roadshow dream, the portrait has been confirmed by six years of painstaking forensic studies to date from around 1600, and it has not been altered since.
Author: Joseph Parker Norris
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Published: 1884
Total Pages: 70
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Publisher: Dodd Mead
Published: 1984
Total Pages: 920
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains the material gathered by the author's investigation into the identity of the real Shakespeare--Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford.
Author: Stephen Greenblatt
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2010-05-03
Total Pages: 441
ISBN-13: 0393079848
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNamed One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death. A young man from a small provincial town moves to London in the late 1580s and, in a remarkably short time, becomes the greatest playwright not of his age alone but of all time. How is an achievement of this magnitude to be explained? Stephen Greenblatt brings us down to earth to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the rich tapestry of Elizabethan life, could have become the world’s greatest playwright.
Author: William Teignmouth Shore
Publisher:
Published: 1920
Total Pages: 200
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