Shakespeare Histories

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    • The Great Plays and the History of England in the Middle Ages: 1337-1485
    • By: John Julius Norwich
    • Narrated by: John Curran
    • Length: 13 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • William Shakespeare may have been the greatest playwright in the English language, but how does he measure up as a historian....

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    • How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare
    • By: Stephen Greenblatt
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 15 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 572 ratings
    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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    • By: Clare Asquith
    • Narrated by: Allan Corduner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • In her enthralling new audiobook, the Shakespearean scholar Clare Asquith reveals the hidden contents of two largely misunderstood narrative poems: two politically charged allegories of Tudor tyranny that justified - and even urged - direct action against an unpopular regime....

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    • Life in Shakespeare’s London
    • By: Catharine Arnold
    • Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In Globe Catherine Arnold takes the listener on a tour of Shakespeare's London, looking at how they shaped each other. Acting turned into a trade, and troupes of touring players perfected their craft....

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    • What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
    • By: James Shapiro
    • Narrated by: Fred Sanders
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 03-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 326 ratings
    • From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare's plays reveal about our divided land, from Revolutionary times to the present day....

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    • By: Neil MacGregor
    • Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • What was life like for Shakespeare's first audiences? In this fascinating series, Neil MacGregor attempts to answer these questions by examining 20 objects from that turbulent period....

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    • From Copernicus to Shakespeare: How the Renaissance in Northern Europe Transformed the World
    • By: Paul Strathern
    • Narrated by: Roger May
    • Length: 14 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 10-29-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An original, illuminating history of the northern European Renaissance in art, science, and philosophy, which often rivaled its Italian counterpart.

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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 1,883 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: Jeremy Black
    • Narrated by: Simon Barber
    • Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In England in the Age of Shakespeare, Jeremy Black takes readers on a tour of life in the streets, homes, farms, churches, and palaces of the Bard’s era....

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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 147 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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    • How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
    • By: Elizabeth Winkler
    • Narrated by: Eunice Wong
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies investigates the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be....

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    • Snakebites, Stabbings and Broken Hearts
    • By: Kathryn Harkup
    • Narrated by: Nicky Diss
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters. Kathryn Harkup turns her discerning scientific eye to the Bard and the varied and creative ways his characters die....

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    • The Life of Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, the Man who Was Shakespeare
    • By: Mark Anderson
    • Narrated by: Simon Prebble
    • Length: 10 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-09-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 158 ratings
    • Journalist Mark Anderson's biography offers tantalizing proof that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the real "Shakespeare"....

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