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"A work of gripping non-fiction, North by Shakespeare presents the twinning narratives of rogue scholar Dennis McCarthy, called "the Steve Jobs of the Shakespeare community," and Sir Thomas North, an Elizabethan courtier whom McCarthy believes to be the undiscovered source for Shakespeare's plays. For the last fifteen years, Dennis McCarthy has obsessively pursued the true source of Shakespeare's works, with fascinating results. Using plagiarism software,...

Organized by topic, offers approximately three thousand familiar and little-known quotations from Shakespeare's plays and poems.

A retelling of The return of the Jedi in iambic pentameter, the style of Shakespeare. Now Luke Skywalker and his rebel band must seek fresh allies in their quest to thwart construction of a new Imperial Death Star...Frozen heroes, furry creatures, and family secrets revealed! And a light saber duel to decide the fate of the Empire.

"From one of the country s foremost Shakespeare experts, a fierce, funny exploration of the women of Shakespeare s plays that reveals his evolving understanding of the feminine. Women of Will traces Shakespeare s development as a human being. Beginning with the early comedies ("The Taming of the Shrew," "Two Gentlemen of Verona," "The Comedy of Errors"), Tina Packer shows that Shakespeare began by writing women as shrews to be tamed or as sweet little...

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, discusses the author and the theater of his time, and provides quizzes and other study activities.

A dramatic romance, weaving fancy and realism into a plot that speaks to audiences today. This timeless stage is set on an enchanted island, where an exiled Duke and two young lovers encounter the occult, finding good and evil in their own natures.

A dramatization of William Shakespeare's farce about two pairs of twins involved in an elaborate series of mistaken identities.

"From leading Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, a timely and insightful examination of what the world's greatest dramatist can teach us about life in an America riven by conflict. The United States has always been divided, but Americans from all walks of life have also always shared a deep affinity for the plays William Shakespeare, even if their meaning has been fiercely contested. For well over two centuries now, Americans of all stripes--presidents...