Year Shakespeare

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    • 1599
    • By: James Shapiro
    • Narrated by: James Shapiro
    • Length: 6 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright....

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    • Shakespeare in 1606
    • By: James Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Robert Fass
    • Length: 11 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • In the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed....

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    • Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
    • By: Laura Bates
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 206 ratings
    • Shakespeare professor and prison volunteer Laura Bates thought she had seen it all. That is, until she decided to teach Shakespeare in a place the bard had never been before....

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    • The World as Stage
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-23-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,850 ratings
    • William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition....

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    • By: Dani Jansen
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Auerbach
    • Length: 7 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Alison Green, desperate Valedictorian-wannabe, agrees to produce her school’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. That’s her first big mistake. The second is accidentally saying yes to a date with her oldest friend, Jack, even though she’s crushing on Charlotte....

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    • The Biography
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 19 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • Only Peter Ackroyd can combine narrative and unique observation with a sharp eye for the fascinating fact. His method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only richly conjures up the texture of Shakespeare’s life....

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    • The Man Who Pays the Rent
    • By: Judi Dench
    • Narrated by: Brendan O’Hea, Barbara Flynn, Judi Dench
    • Length: 12 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Taking a curtain call with a live snake in her wig. Cavorting naked through the Warwickshire countryside painted green. Acting opposite a child with a pumpkin on his head. These are just a few of the things Dame Judi Dench has done in the name of Shakespeare....

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    • His Life and Works
    • By: Leslie Dunton-Downer, Alan Riding
    • Narrated by: Charles Armstrong
    • Length: 19 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 10-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Unravel the history, themes, and language of Shakespeare's plays, poems, and sonnets with this beautiful guide to his life and works. Comedy and romance, history, and tragedy, Shakespeare's canon has it all.

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    • The World as a Stage
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Bill Bryson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-09-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and scholars, is still a thicket of myths and traditions....

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    • El mundo como escenario
    • By: Bill Bryson
    • Narrated by: Alfonso Mendiguchía
    • Length: 6 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-21
    • Language: Spanish
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Sobre la figura de Shakespeare se sabe muy poco y se ha especulado mucho, probablemente demasiado. Con su habitual sabiduría, ironía y buen gusto...

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    • By: Ros King
    • Narrated by: Robert Meldrum
    • Length: 7 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 06-28-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • In this fast-paced introduction, Ros King sets out to remind us of the sheer beauty and sophistication that can make Shakespeare’s works a joy for any audience....

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    • By: Jan Kott
    • Narrated by: Stefan Rudnicki
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 12-16-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Shakespeare, Our Contemporary is a provocative, original study of the major plays of Shakespeare....

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    • The Biography, A Muse of Fire: Successful Playwright and Businessman, Volume III
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 2 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world....

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    • Unlocking the Greatest Mystery in Literature
    • By: Stuart Kells
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 07-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Millions of words of scholarship have been expended on the world's most famous author and his work. And yet a critical part of the puzzle, Shakespeare's library, is a mystery. For four centuries people have searched for it....

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    • His Life & Work
    • By: Richard Hampton, David Weston
    • Narrated by: Judi Dench, Timothy West
    • Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • This entertaining introduction to Shakespeare's work weaves biographical information with excerpts from 33 of his plays....

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    • The Biography, The Upstart Crow: Ambitious Actor and Poet, Volume II
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-26-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world....

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    • The Biography, The Onlie Begetter: Literary Stardom and Royal Patronage, Volume IV
    • By: Peter Ackroyd
    • Narrated by: Simon Callow
    • Length: 3 hrs
    • Release date: 09-26-05
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Peter Ackroyd's insightful new biography positions Shakespeare in the close context of his world....

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