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Series:
Communal Justice in Shakespeare's England
Drama, Law, and Emotion
Hardcover
Penelope Geng
9781487508043
$75.00
LITERARY CRITICISM
Apr 28, 2021
Providing a fresh examination of the relationship between literary and legal communities, Communal Justice in Shakespeare’s England examines the literature of the communal justice in early modern England.The sixteenth century was a turning point for both law and drama. Relentless professionalization of the common law set off a cascade of lawyerly self-fashioning – resulting in blunt attacks on lay judgment. English playwrights, including Shakespeare, resisted the forces of legal professionalization by casting legal expertise as a detriment to m...
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Series: Lit for Little Hands
Lit for Little Hands: A Midsummer Night's Dream
Board book
Brooke Jorden
9781641702393
$18.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 3 - 8
Sep 01, 2020
What fools these mortals be!?—Puck, Act III, Scene 2, 115Join Bottom the Weaver, Oberon and Titania, and the confused lovers in a series of events so outrageous it must be a dream! Filled with interactive wheels and pull-tabs, and lavishly illustrated, Lit for Little Hands: A Midsummer Night's Dream is an unprecedented, fun, entertaining, and stunning kid's introduction to William Shakespeare's beloved classic comedy. Unlike many board books that tackle the classics for kids, Lit for Little Hands tells the actual story in simple, child-friendly...
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Series: The Parlour Games
William Shakespeare the Parlor Game
A Literature-Inspired Party in a Box
Game
Gibbs Smith, Publisher
9781423656647
$36.99
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Sep 01, 2020
Not even your high school English teacher knew Shakespeare could be this uproariously clever. A laugh-out-loud mash-up party game for everyone, whether you love Shakespeare’s works, or loathe them. Dealt from a deck of 400 answer cards, complete modern musings such as, “Just tell the judge to ….” with phrases pulled directly from the Bard himself. Your sense of humor paired with Shakespeare’s quick wit will prove (with refreshing hilarity) just how winsome his words remain in the twenty-first century. Ideally suited to 4 players or more, ages...
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Series:
Romeow & Juliet Bookish Cats 100 Piece Puzzle
Game
Mudpuppy
9780735364981
$20.99
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Age (years) from 6
Jul 14, 2020
Romeow & Juliet Bookish Cats 100 Piece Puzzle from Mudpuppy features an adorable cat portrait of Romeo and Juliet, clever kitty-inspired title and author name. Part of Mudpuppy's Bookish Cats series, this premium puzzle is packaged in a book-style box with magnetic closure and has gold foil embellishments on both puzzle and box. ? 100 pc puzzle: 10.75 x 13.5", 27 x 34 cm ? Book-style box with magnetic closure ? Foil embellishments on puzzle and box ? Box: 5.5 x 6.75 x 2", 14 x 17 x 5 cm ? Ages 6+
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Series:
Shakespeare On Stage and Off
Paperback
Kenneth Graham
9780773559257
$37.95
LITERARY CRITICISM
Dec 19, 2019
Today, debates about the cultural role of the humanities and the arts are roiling. Responding to renewed calls to reassess the prominence of canonical writers, Shakespeare On Stage and Off introduces new perspectives on why and how William Shakespeare still matters. Lively and accessible, the book considers what it means to play, work, and live with Shakespeare in the twenty-first century. Contributors - including Antoni Cimolino, artistic director of the Stratford Festival - engage with contemporary stagings of the plays, from a Trump-like Jul...
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Series:
The World of Shakespeare
1000 Piece Jigsaw Puzzle
Game
Adam Simpson
9781786274250
$27.99
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Age (years) from 8.0000000000
Aug 13, 2019
Piece together the world of Shakespeare in this art jigsaw puzzle depicting the London of his day. Spot a huge cast of contemporary extras as A Midsummer Night's Dream is rehearsed at the Globe and fellow actors wander the streets, along with local characters who may well have provided the Bard with inspiration. From lovers ascending ladders and bears being baited to tavern brawls and summer fairs, there is something to delight in every detail.
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Series: Little Poet
Little Poet William Shakespeare: I Love You
Little Poet William Shakespeare
Board book
Kate Coombs
9781423651536
$14.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 0 - 3
Mar 26, 2019
Introduce clever babies to classic poets with Gibbs Smith’s new Little Poet series. “I do love nothing in the world so well as you.” Little Poet William Shakespeare: I Love You pairs loving lines from The Bard’s famous plays and sonnets with engaging illustrations by Carme Lemniscates, letting parents, grandparents, and other readers tell toddlers how loved they are in Shakespeare’s own words.
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Series:
Mapping Shakespeare
An exploration of Shakespeare's worlds through maps
Hardcover
Jeremy Black
9781844865178
$47.00
REFERENCE
Apr 10, 2018
An exploration through maps of the land and time in which Shakespeare wrote.This beautiful new book looks at the England, Europe, and wider world in which William Shakespeare worked through maps and illustrations that reveal the way that he and his Tudor contemporaries saw their land and their place in the world. Lovers of Shakespeare's plays will delight in seeing Romeo and Juliet's 16th century Verona, and the Venice of Antonio and Shylock.Mapping Shakespeareexplores the locations of his plays and looks at the possible inspirations for these ...
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Series: Guinea Pig Classics
A Guinea Pig Romeo & Juliet
Hardcover
William Shakespeare
9781635570007
$19.00
HUMOR
Oct 03, 2017
A charming retelling of Shakespeare's beloved tragedy, brought to you by the cuddly stars ofA Guinea Pig Pride & Prejudice.A Guinea Pig Romeo & Juliet tells the tragic tale of two star-crossed guinea pigs who fall in love at first nose twitch.When Romeo and Juliet meet in a crowded ballroom, they don't realize that their families are sworn enemies. Later that night, Romeo overhears Juliet declaring her love for him from her balcony, and the two hatch a plan to marry and escape. But their great romance is ruined by the family rivalry, which tear...
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Series:
Great Shakespearean Deaths Card Game
Cards
Chris Riddell
9781452162478
$18.95
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Jul 07, 2017
Who had the greatest last words, and what were they? Who enjoyed the slowest, most tedious death? Who had it coming more than anyone else? From the celebrated comedy ensemble Spymonkey and acclaimed illustrator Chris Riddell, this hilariously morbid (and informative!) card game has players trying to outdo one another using everyone's favorite Shakespearean construct: the amazing deaths!
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Series: LoveLit Totes
William Shakespeare BabyLit(TM) Tote
General merchandise
Alison Oliver
9781423646853
$28.00
NON-CLASSIFIABLE
Jun 20, 2017
A stylish tote for carrying Shakespeare sonnets and plays, and all your other favorite books. 16" wide x 15 1/2" tall x 5" gusset natural cotton, 22" handles Made in the U.S.A.
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Series: BabyLit Primer
A Midsummer Night's Dream
A BabyLit(TM) Fairies Primer
Board book
Jennifer Adams
9781423641810
$14.99
JUVENILE FICTION
Age (years) from 0 - 3
Feb 23, 2016
The perfect lullaby for a magical midsummer night, and a beautiful way to introduce your little one to the Bard. Jennifer Adams’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s original lines and Alison Oliver’s whimsical illustrations bring the world of fairies to life and will enchant little ones for years to come.
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Series:
Presenting Shakespeare
1,100 Posters from Around the World
Hardcover
Steven Heller
9781616892920
$72.00
DESIGN
Oct 20, 2015
A skull held aloft, a lovesick donkey, a bloodied dagger—these familiar icons are instantly recognizable shorthand for the plays of William Shakespeare. In the four hundred years since his death, the Bard of Avon's exalted place in the pantheon of theater and poetry—indeed, all of Western culture—is unequaled. As Ben Jonson proclaimed, Shakespeare "is not of an age but for all time!"And just as centuries of theatrical artists have reimagined his works through the lens of their own time and culture, so too have illustrators and designers been in...
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Series:
Shakespeare for Kids
5 Classic Works Adapted for Kids: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, All's Well that Ends Well, and The Tempest
Paperback
Familius
9781939629777
$27.95
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - 11
Sep 23, 2015
Five classic works fully illustrated and adapted for young readers, Shakespeare Stories for Kids collects five important plays in a beautifully crafted slipcase for the beginning bard. A treasure of delight for any child beginning his or her adventure with the greatest playwright in history. This volume includes: A Midsummer Night’s Dream Macbeth Much Ado About Nothing All's Well That Ends Well, and The Tempest
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Series: Voices in Poetry
Voices in Poetry: William Shakespeare
Paperback
Jennifer Fandel
9781628320565
$17.00
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Reading age from 10 - 13
Jan 27, 2015
Combining biographical profiles with poetry selections, this revised and updated selection of Voices in Poetry highlights the extraordinary lives and talent of some of the world's most influential poets. From Shakespeare's classic love sonnets to Hughes's songs of the African American experience, this series introduces readers to six unique poetic voices from multiple perspectives by featuring full-length poems or excerpts from larger works and examinations of the author's style and thematic material. This title provides an exploration of the l...
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Series:
Teaching Will
What Shakespeare and 10 Kids Gave Me that Hollywood Couldn't
Paperback
Mel Ryane
9781939629234
$24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Sep 10, 2014
What happens when an idealist volunteers to introduce Shakespeare to a group of unruly kids? Bedlam. Tears. And hard lessons learned. Convinced that children can relate to Shakespeare's themes—power, revenge, love—Mel Ryane launches The Shakespeare Club at a public school.Teaching Will is a riotous cautionary tale of high hopes and goodwill crashing into the realities of classroom chaos.Every week Mel encounters unexpected comedy and drama as she and the children struggle toward staging a production ofA Midsummer Night's Dream. Woven through th...
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Series: BabyLit First Steps Picture Books
Doodle Lit
Drawing on the Classics
Paperback
Jennifer Adams
9781423635512
$28.99
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 8 - up
Aug 01, 2014
From the creators of BabyLit®, now kids can celebrate classic literature in doodle form! With Doodle Lit, artists can use their imaginations to complement favorites such as Pride and Prejudice, Romeo and Juliet, Jane Eyre, Alice in Wonderland, and many more. Kids can follow the entertaining prompts provided and put pencils to work doodling such things as • Mr. Darcy’s dog • Bob Cratchit’s Christmas tree • Tattoos on Queequeg’s arms • Anna Karenina’s hairdo • Dress designs for Elinor and Marianne Sprinkled throughout are also designs with perf...
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Series:
Sh*t Rough Drafts
Pop Culture's Favorite Books, Movies, and TV Shows as They Might Have Been
Paperback
Paul Laudiero
9781452131306
$18.95
HUMOR
Apr 15, 2014
Sh*t Rough Drafts collects imagined misguided early drafts of classic books, screenplays, and contemporary literature, creating visions of alternate works that would exist had the authors not come to their senses. What if F. Scott Fitzgerald had gone with the titleThe Coolest Gatsby? How wouldThe Hunger Games change if Peeta were armed only with blueberry muffins? If the Man of Steel'sS stood for Sexyman?MacBeth,Moby Dick,Harry Potter,Sense and Sensibility,The Lord of the Rings, and many more are each presented as if they were the actual typed ...
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Series:
Shakespeare Insult Generator
Mix and Match More than 150,000 Insults in the Bard's Own Words (Shakespeare for Kids, Shakespeare Gifts, William Shakespeare)
Hardcover
Barry Kraft
9781452127750
$18.95
HUMOR
Mar 04, 2014
Put dullards and miscreants in their place with more than 150,000 handy mix-and-match insults in the bard's own words. This entertaining insult generator and flip book collects hundreds of words from Shakespeare's most pointed barbs and allows readers to combine them in creative and hilariously stinging ways. From "apish bald-pated abomination" to "cuckoldly dull-brained blockhead" to "obscene rump-fed hornbeast," each insult can be chosen at random or customized to fit any situation that calls for a literary smackdown. Featuring an informative...
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Series:
Classic Poetry for Dogs
Why Do I Chase Thee
Hardcover
Jessica Swaim
9781423635543
$18.99
HUMOR
Feb 26, 2014
If Sharpeis wrote sonnets and Labradors wrote limericks, of what would they muse? Jessica Swaim re-envisions classic literature through a roundup of cultured hounds including Rover Frost, Emily Doginson, and Edgar Allan Pug. Poems range from the savory “Shall I Compare Thee to a Steak Fillet,” to the reflective “Sizing Up Shoes on a Soulful Evening” and the mysterious “The Maven,” each with a cunning twist that will leave you grinning. The poets are also brought to life with distinguished portraits by Chet Phillips and insightful biographies.
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Series:
Well-Read Women
Portraits of Fiction's Most Beloved Heroines
Hardcover
Samantha Hahn
9781452114156
$28.95
ART
Aug 27, 2013
A treasure of a gift for the well-read woman, this collection brings together 50 stirring portraits, in watercolor and in word, of literature's most well-read female characters. Anna Karenina, Clarissa Dalloway, Daisy Buchanan...each seems to live on the page through celebrated artist Samantha Hahn's evocative portraits and hand-lettered quotations, with the pairing of art and text capturing all the spirit of the character as she was originally written. The book itself evokes vintage gracereimagined for contemporary taste, with a cloth spine si...
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Series:
A History of Weapons
Crossbows, Caltrops, Catapults & Lots of Other Things that Can Seriously Mess You Up
Hardcover
John O'Bryan
9781452110547
$27.95
HISTORY
Apr 23, 2013
One day a prehistoric guy picked up a rock and threw it at something. And the history of weapons began. Comedy writer and weapon nerd John O'Bryan relays the freaky highlights of man's centuries-old obsession with weaponry. He hilariously explains the mace, the morning star, and the man catcher, while conveying factual information about each weapon: its history, uses, and badass potential. Flipping through history's highlights, readers will learn about Attila the Hun, Genghis Khan, and the"peaceful" Shaolin monks. This ultimate compendium of aw...
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Series:
Shakespeare Saved My Life
Ten Years in Solitary with the Bard
Paperback
Laura Bates
9781402273148
$28.99
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mar 26, 2013
"Shakespeare Saved My Life touches on the search for meaning in life, the struggles that complicate the path to triumph and the salvation that can be found in literature's great works ... An inspiring account."—Shelf AwarenessA female professor, a super maximum security prisoner, and how Shakespeare saved them both 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 — supermax solitary confinement. In this unwelcoming place,...
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Series: 642
642 Things to Write About
(Guided Journal, Creative Writing, Writing Prompt Journal)
Blank book
San Francisco Writers' Grotto
9781452105444
$24.95
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Reading age from 18
Dec 07, 2011
"This is a great book if your creative juices are running dry." —Portland Book ReviewA collection of 642 outrageous and witty writing prompts: Banish writer's block with642 Things to Write, a fun and playful journal that invites inspiration with plenty of space to write it all down. Brimming with entertaining exercises, this writing prompt journal is sure to get the creative juices flowing.• From crafting your own obituary and penning an ode to an onion, to telling a dying houseplant why it should live and making a case for your favorite fruit,...
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Series:
Shakespeare's Love Sonnets
Hardcover
Caitlin Keegan
9780811879088
$27.95
POETRY
Reading age from 18
Sep 07, 2011
Shakespeare s sonnets are revered the world over for perfectly capturing the torments and joys of love requited or otherwise in just fourteen lines of iambic pentameter. This treasure of a book collects 29 of the bard s most romantic sonnets, each one lovingly illustrated by the talented Caitlin Keegan. Pretty and contemporary, the illustrations tastefully accentuate the depth of sentiment in each sonnet. A brilliant sun rises over the 17th Sonnet ( Shall I compare thee to a summer s day? )and a graceful animal adorns the 19th Sonnet ( Devourin...
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Series:
Can't Sleep, Write Now
A Nocturnal Journal for Tireless Thinkers
Blank book
Lucien Edwards
9781452101149
$21.95
GAMES & ACTIVITIES
Reading age from 18
Aug 17, 2011
This guided journal turns sleepless nights into a source of inspiration. Featuring dozens of provocative creative writing prompts (Write the shortest story ever written. Describe the taste of regret.) and quotes about the power of nighttime, the pages provide a thought-provoking haven for restless writers and tireless thinkers.
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Series: BabyLit Primer
Romeo & Juliet
A BabyLit(TM) Counting Primer
Board book
Jennifer Adams
9781423622055
$14.99
JUVENILE NONFICTION
Age (years) from 0 - 3
Jul 07, 2011
Get swept away by Little Master Shakespeare’s tale of two star-crossed lovers in Romeo & Juliet: A BabyLit® Counting Primer. Count friends, kisses, love letters, and roses in this charming retelling of Shakespeare’s famous story of young love. Since parting from such a lovely little book will certainly bring feelings of sweet sorrow, you may find yourself re-reading 'till it be 'morrow!
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Dive into this treasure trove of offbeat, clever, and endlessly absorbing drawing prompts.The perfect inspirational guided art journal: A rolling pin, a robot, a pickle, a water tower, a hammock, a wasp, a safety pin, a kiss. Some are deceptively simple (just try drawing a bicycle!), some are conceptually mind-bending (sketching the sound of girlish laughter?), and some are refreshingly basic (the only hard thing about drawing an egg is deciding how you want it to be cooked). Hip and helpful,642 Things to Draw is the perfect inspirational sketc...
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Series:
Get Thee to a Punnery
An Anthology of Intentional Assaults Upon the English Language
Paperback
Richard Lederer
9780941711821
$14.95
HUMOR
May 08, 2006
Get Thee to a Punnery proves that the pun is mightier than the sword . . . and here are sidesplitting puns of every color, stripe and persuasion to suit every whim. Even if you don't know that your humerus is your funny bone, this is the book for you.
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Series:
Speaking Shakespeare
First Edition
Paperback
Patsy Rodenburg
9781403965400
$31.50
DRAMA
Jul 16, 2004
InSpeaking Shakespeare, Patsy Rodenburg tackles one of the most difficult acting jobs: speaking Shakespeare's words both as they were meant to be spoken and in an understandable and dramatic way. Rodenburg calls this "a simple manual to start the journey into the heart of Shakespeare," and that is what she gives us. With the same insight she displayed inThe Actor Speaks, Rodenburg tackles the playing of all Shakespeare's characters. She uses dramatic resonance, breathing, and placement to show how an actor can bring Hamlet, Rosalind, Puck and o...
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