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The lodger
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Charles Nicholl |
In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster – it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine – a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry – b… |
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The reckoning
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Charles Nicholl |
In 1593 the brilliant and controversial young playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a Deptford lodging-house. The circumstances were shady, the official account -- a violent quarrel … |
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The play's the thing
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Ruth Turk |
Traces the life of the famous English writer, from his childhood and schooling in Stratford-on-Avon, through his successful career as actor and playwright in London, to his death in 1616. |
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Shakespeare and his theatre
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Jim Bradbury |
Traces the life of Shakespeare and describes the Elizabethan and early Jacobean theatre. |
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Tom Stoppard
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Ira Bruce Nadel |
"Tom Stoppard is one of the greatest living English playwrights. In this portrait, Ira Nadel weaves Stoppard's life and work into a work of critical biography. Peopled with such theatrical luminaries… |
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