Shakespeares Library

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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
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    • 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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    • By: Gary Blackwood
    • Narrated by: Stuart Blinder
    • Series: The Shakespeare Stealer, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-21-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" - or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform....

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    • By: William Shakespeare
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 2 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 08-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 763 ratings
    • The Folger Shakespeare Library, home to the world's largest Shakespeare collection, brings Romeo and Juliet to life with this new full-length, full-cast dramatic recording of its definitive Folger Edition....

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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
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    • 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: Celeste Mannis
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 7 mins
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • The beloved plays of Shakespeare are still produced everywhere, yet the life of the world's most famous playwright remains largely a mystery. Young Will left the town of Stratford to pursue theater in London, where his work eventually thrived and made him a famous and wealthy man....

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    • By: Jake Wizner
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • Shakespeare Shapiro has always hated his name. His parents bestowed it on him as some kind of sick joke when he was born, and his life has gone downhill from there, one embarrassing incident after another....

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    • Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • By: DK
    • Narrated by: Roger May
    • Series: Big Ideas Simply Explained
    • Length: 16 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • This is the perfect study guide to the complete works of Shakespeare, covering everything from the romantic comedy of Romeo and Juliet to the tragedy Macbeth, alongside his Elizabethan history plays, sonnets, and other poems....

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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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    • 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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    • 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 6 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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    • Magic Tree House, Book 25
    • By: Mary Pope Osborne
    • Narrated by: Mary Pope Osborne
    • Series: Magic Tree House, Book 25
    • Length: 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Jack and Annie are whisked back to Elizabethan England where they meet the Bard of Avon himself, Shakespeare, and luckily for them, he is desperate for two small actors for his latest play....

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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 75 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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    • How the First Folio Saved the Plays of William Shakespeare from Oblivion
    • By: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins, Ann Bausum
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The unlikely true story of why we know the name William Shakespeare today, and the four-hundred-year-old book that made it possible....

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