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Shakespeare Birthplace Trust: Shakespeare Homes and Haunts Wall Calendar 2025 (Art Calendar)

Produced in partnership with the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, this calendar features artwork by Paul Braddon, a prolific watercolour artist. Informative text accompanies each work and the datepad features previous and…

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Shakespeare’s First Folio: All The Plays

William Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

"Feast your eyeballs on this bedazzling book and start your children on a lifelong love of Shakespeare." The Times

"It's Shakespeare for children - but in a radical new form…

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A Shakespeare Motley: An Illustrated Assortment

Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

A beautifully produced and illustrated miscellany of fascinating facts, definitions and quotations relating to the world’s most famous playwright.

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Shakespeare’s First Folio: All The Plays: A Children’s Edition

William Shakespeare, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Dr. Anjna Chouhan

Four hundred years after its publication, Shakespeare's First Folio has found a brand-new crop of enthusiasts. This gorgeous collection comprises all the plays in the original volume -- fourteen comedies…

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Shakespeare’s Gardens

Jackie Bennett,Shakespeare Birthplace Trust

For the first time, Shakespeare’s Gardens brings together brand new photography of the gardens with beautiful archive images of flowers, old herbals, and 16th century illustrations.

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Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Paul Edmondson (Head of Education at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust),Stanley Wells (Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Offers an informative and helpful study of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. This book considers questions often raised about them - Do they reflect Shakespeare’s personal experience? Can their addressees, male and female…

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Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

Stanley Wells (Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

How does Shakespeare’s treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Looking at both plays and poetry, this lively and informative book explores Shakespeare’s…

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Shakespeare, Sex, and Love

Stanley Wells (Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

How does Shakespeare’s treatment of human sexuality relate to the sexual conventions and language of his times? Looking at both plays and poetry, this lively and informative book explores Shakespeare’s…

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William Shakespeare: A Very Short Introduction

Stanley Wells (Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

In this new offering from Stanley Wells comes an exploration of one of the world’s greatest dramatists: William Shakespeare. Written with enthusiasm and flair, Wells looks at both the world…

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Shakespeare’s Tragedies: A Very Short Introduction

Stanley Wells (Honorary President of the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Shakespeare’s tragedies contain an astonishing variety of suffering, from suicides and murders to dismemberments and grief. Stanley Wells considers how the bard’s tragic plays drew on the literary and theatrical…

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Looking for Sex in Shakespeare

Stanley Wells (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon)

Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. This book considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare’s writing is a matter of interpretation by actors…

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Looking for Sex in Shakespeare

Stanley Wells (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon)

Stanley Wells is one of the best-known and most versatile of Shakespeare scholars. This book considers how far sexual meaning in Shakespeare’s writing is a matter of interpretation by actors…

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Shakespeare’s Political and Economic Language: A Dictionary

Vivian Thomas (University of Warwick and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK)

Shakespeare’s plays are pervaded by political and economic words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but also in the comedies and romances. This is a A-Z reference…

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Shakespeare’s Political and Economic Language: A Dictionary

Vivian Thomas (University of Warwick and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK)

Originally published: London: Continuum, 2008.

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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh

Stanley Wells (Honorary President, Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Great Shakespeare Actors provides a series of well-informed, well-written, illuminating, and entertaining accounts of many of the most famous stage performers of Shakespeare in both England and America, offering a…

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Great Shakespeare Actors: Burbage to Branagh

Stanley Wells (Honorary President, Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Great Shakespeare Actors provides a series of well-informed, well-written, illuminating, and entertaining accounts of many of the most famous stage performers of Shakespeare in both England and America, offering a…

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A Dictionary of Shakespeare

Stanley Wells (The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon)

Compiled by one of the best-known authorities on the bard’s works, this dictionary offers up-to-date information on all aspects of Shakespeare in his own time and on his impact and…

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Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader

Stanley Wells (Professor Emeritus, University of Birmingham, and Honorary President, Professor Emeritus, University of Birmingham, and Honorary President, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Re-editing Shakespeare for the Modern Reader

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Shakespeare’s Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary

Vivian Thomas (University of Warwick and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK),Nicki Faircloth (Independent Scholar)

A comprehensive critical reference source for landscape, plants and gardens in Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare’s Plants and Gardens: A Dictionary

Vivian Thomas (University of Warwick and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK),Nicki Faircloth (Independent Scholar)

A comprehensive critical reference source for landscape, plants and gardens in Shakespeare.

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Shakespeare on Page and Stage: Selected Essays

Stanley Wells (Emeritus, University of Birmingham, Honorary President, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

This volume presents a winning selection of the very best essays from the long and distinguished career of Stanley Wells, one of the most well-known and respected Shakespeare scholars in…

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

Head of Research Paul Edmonson (Shakespeare Birthplace Trust),Greg Wells (University of Warwick)

This is the first complete edition and English translation of John Hall’s Little Book of Cures, a fascinating medical casebook composed in Latin around 16345. John Hall (15751635) was Shakespeare’s…

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Shakespeare’s Money: How much did he make and what did this mean?

Robert Bearman (Former Head of Archives and Local Studies and now Honorary Fellow, Former Head of Archives and Local Studies and now Honorary Fellow, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Shakespeare’s Money explores what archival records can reveal about Shakespeare’s economic and social success, shedding light on how he elevated his family from lowly status to minor gentry and how…

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Shakespeare’s Money: How much did he make and what did this mean?

Robert Bearman (Former Head of Archives and Local Studies and now Honorary Fellow, Former Head of Archives and Local Studies and now Honorary Fellow, Shakespeare Birthplace Trust)

Shakespeare’s Money explores what archival records can reveal about Shakespeare’s economic and social success, shedding light on how he elevated his family from lowly status to minor gentry and how…

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