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	Bulk Discounts Buy... Save... 25 - 99 40% 100 - 249 45% 250 - 499 47% 500 - 999 50% 1000 or more 55% List Price: $29.95 Our Price: $17.97 for 25 - 99 copies You save $11.98! Published: October 2003 ISBN: 0465092640, 9780465092642 Format Hardcover Publisher: Basic Books Carton Quantity: 16 (Minimum order):  25 Availability:: Usually Ships in 24 to 72 Hours Product Code: 9780465092642 Buy It New: Bulk savings applied automatically at checkout. Orders typically ship in 1 to 4 business days, subject to inventory on hand and quantity ordered. Please call us if you have any questions or special needs. Qty:

Description   A brilliant piece of historical investigative journalism, Shakespeare is a fresh telling of the playwright's life based on a wide range of newly discovered sources, such as police and torture records. Rather than approaching Shakespeare as an isolated genius, Wood argues that he was very much a product of his place and time--a period of upheaval that straddled the medieval and modern worlds. It was a time of great tensions, marked by murderous plots and purges of the Elizabethan police state, from the Somerville Plot and the Essex rebellion to the Gunpowder Plot, which can now be shown to have touched Shakespeare and his family directly. If we wonder why Shakespeare was so obsessed with violence, and especially the violence of the state, there is an answer: This was Shakespeare's world.Furthermore, Wood reveals new and surprising evidence about: Shakespeare's Catholic faith, his work, and his attitudes on sex and on race. In doing so he reinstates the image of Shakespeare as a thinking artist, his work based firmly in the religion, politics, culture and class antagonisms of his day. Shakespeare plunges us headlong into the turbulent life and times of William Shakespeare. Presented in a beautifully designed package, with over 100 four-color and black-and-white illustrations, the result is a more convincing and complete portrait of the artist than was previously thought possible.   Related Products... In the Moment: My Life as an Actor (Hardcover) There Are Worse Things I Could Do: (Hardcover) Andy Warhol and the Can That Sold the World: (Ha The Sea's Bitter Harvest: Thirteen Deadly Days on Our Price: $15.60 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $13.20 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Out of Bounds: Coming Out of Sexual Abuse, Addict John McCain: An American Odyssey (Paperback) Mamarama: A Memoir of Sex, Kids, and Rock 'n' Rol Betrayed: The Assassination of Digna Ochoa (Hardc Our Price: $15.00 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $10.80 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $13.20 for 25 - 99 copies Add Our Price: $16.20 for 25 - 99 copies Add

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