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
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    • 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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    • 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 325 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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    • 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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    • 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
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    • Journalist Mark Anderson's biography offers tantalizing proof that Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford was the real "Shakespeare"....

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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
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    • Award-winning author Stephen Greenblatt is one of the most influential literary thinkers in the world....

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    • An Ideal Gift for Cat Lovers With Lots of Great British Cat Stories and Fun Trivia
    • By: Seamus Mullarkey
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-24
    • Language: English
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    • DO YOU ABSOLUTELY LOVE CATS?? -- Did you know they played a huge role in British history? Like to know more...? This funny, informative book has ...

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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 1,857 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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    • 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
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    • 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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    • By: Neil MacGregor
    • Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-21-12
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A History of European Civilization in the Period of Shakespeare, Bacon, Montaigne, Rembrandt, Galileo, and Descartes: 1558 - 1648: The Story of Civilization, Book 7
    • By: Will Durant, Ariel Durant
    • Narrated by: Grover Gardner
    • Series: The Story of Civilization, Book 7
    • Length: 34 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 509 ratings
    • This seventh volume of Will and Ariel Durant's renowned Story of Civilization chronicles the history of European civilization from 1558 to 1648....

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    • By: Clare Asquith
    • Narrated by: Allan Corduner
    • Length: 7 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-21-18
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • 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 144 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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    • 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 2 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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    • Shakespeare on How Leaders Rise, Rule, and Fall
    • By: Eliot A. Cohen
    • Narrated by: Steven Crossley
    • Length: 9 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 11-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • What Shakespeare's plays can teach us about modern-day politics.

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    • By: William Shakespeare
    • Narrated by: Sir John Gielgud
    • Length: 1 hr and 50 mins
    • Release date: 12-20-10
    • Language: English
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    • Here are 154 poems performed by by the wonderful Sir John Gielgud in this Shakepseare collection of the Sonnets....

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