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  • The World of Christopher Marlowe

    by David Riggs ...
    David Riggs evokes the atmosphere and texture of Marlowe's life, from the stench and poverty of a childhood spent near Canterbury's abattoirs to the fanatical pursuit of classical learning at school. Marlowe won a place at Cambridge University, where he entered its world of 18-hour working days, religious intrigue and twilight homosexuality, tolerated but unspoken. The gifted student was not ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Ben Jonson

    A Life

    by David Riggs ...
    Ben Jonson's contemporaries admired him above all other playwrights and poets of the English Renaissance. He was the “great refiner” who alchemized the bleakest aspects of everyday life into brilliant images of folly and deceit. He was also a celebrated reprobate and an ambitious entrepreneur. David Riggs illuminates every facet of this extraordinary career, giving us the first major biography of ... Read more

    $58.99 CAD

  • What Would Jesus Do... about Taxes and Taxation?

    by Michael David Riggs ...
    Many believe that Jesus was the wisest man to ever live and walk this earth. What would He do about the problems facing the world's governments and the economies of nations? What did He have to say about taxes? Was it limited to the oft repeated phrase, "...render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's?" Does the Bible, the book Jesus lived His life by, have answers and solutions to the world's ... Read more

    $8.23 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Risk and Resilience in U.S. Military Families

    Edited by David Riggs, Shelley MacDermid-Wadsworth ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    War related separations challenge military families in many ways. The worry and uncertainty associated with absent family members exacerbates the challenges of personal, social, and economic resources on the home front. U.S. military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan have sent a million service personnel from the U.S. alone into conflict areas leaving millions of spouses, children and others in ... Read more

    $179.99 CAD

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  • Shakespeare: A Life

    by Park Honan ...
    In the most complete, accurate, and up-to-date narrative of Shakespeare's life ever written, Park Honan uses a wealth of fresh information to dramatically alter our perceptions of the actor, poet, and playwright. The young poet's relationships, his early courtship of Anne Hathaway, their marriage, his attitudes to women such as Jennet Davenant, Marie Mountjoy, and his own daughters, are seen in a ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Henry VIII

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series Folger Shakespeare Library
    The authoritative edition of Henry VIII from The Folger Shakespeare Library, the trusted and widely used Shakespeare series for students and general readers.In Henry VIII, Shakespeare presents a monarchy in crisis. Noblemen battle with Lord Chancellor Cardinal Wolsey, who taxes the people to the point of rebellion. Witnesses whom Wolsey brings against the Duke of Buckingham claim he is conspiring ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • Shakespeare's Ideas

    More Things in Heaven and Earth

    by David Bevington ...
    Series Book 36 - Blackwell Great Minds
    An in-depth exploration, through his plays and poems, of the philosophy of Shakespeare as a great poet, a great dramatist and a "great mind".Written by a leading Shakespearean scholarDiscusses an array of topics, including sex and gender, politics and political theory, writing and acting, religious controversy and issues of faith, skepticism and misanthropy, and closureExplores Shakespeare as a ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • King John

    Third Series

    by William Shakespeare ...
    Series series The Arden Shakespeare Third Series
    The Arden Shakespeare is the established scholarly edition of Shakespeare's plays. Now in its third series, Arden offers the best in contemporary scholarship. Each volume guides you to a deeper understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare's plays.This edition of King John provides:- A clear and authoritative text, edited to the highest standards of scholarship.- Detailed notes and commentary on ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • Shakespeare's Books

    A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources

    by Stuart Gillespie ...
    Series series Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries
    Shakespeare's Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. The dictionary covers works whose importance to Shakespeare has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research, as well as explaining current thinking on long-recognized sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD

  • The Shakespeare Claimants

    A Critical Survey of the Four Principal Theories concerning the Authorship of the Shakespearean Plays

    by H. N Gibson ...
    This edition first published in 1962.The Shakespeare Claimants is a critical survey of the great controversy that has raged over the authorship of the Shakespearean plays. It provides the general reader with an outline history of this controversy and with a full description and analysis of the main anti-Stratfordian arguments. This book concentrates on the four main claimants: Bacon, Oxford, Derby ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • The Reader in the Book

    A Study of Spaces and Traces

    by Stephen Orgel ...
    Series series Oxford Textual Perspectives
    The Reader in the Book is concerned with a particular aspect of the history of the book, an archeology and sociology of the use of margins and other blank spaces. One of the most commonplace aspects of old books is the fact that people wrote in them, something that, until very recently, has infuriated modern collectors and librarians. But these inscriptions constitute a significant dimension of ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare

    by Stephen Greenblatt ...
    "So engrossing, clearheaded, and lucid that its arrival is not just welcome but cause for celebration." —Dan Cryer, NewsdayStephen Greenblatt, the charismatic Harvard professor who "knows more about Shakespeare than Ben Jonson or the Dark Lady did" (John Leonard, Harper's), has written a biography that enables us to see, hear, and feel how an acutely sensitive and talented boy, surrounded by the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD