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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Boswell, James 1740-1795 Boswell, James 1740-1795 Friends and associates DRAMA / Shakespeare Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century Intellectuals England Biography Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784 Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784 Friends and associates Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Societies England London History 18th centuryFilter By Subjects
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Boswell, James 1740-1795 Boswell, James 1740-1795 Friends and associates DRAMA / Shakespeare Great Britain Intellectual life 18th century Intellectuals England Biography Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784 Johnson, Samuel 1709-1784 Friends and associates Shakespeare, William 1564-1616 Societies England London History 18th centuryBate, Jonathan.
Summary: Bate's Soul of the Age tells the story of the great dramatist while deducing the crucial events of Shakespeare's life, connecting those events to his world and work as never before, and revealing how this unsurpassed artist came to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SHAKESPEARE, WILLIAM BATMays, Andrea E.
Summary: "Today it is the most valuable book in the world. Recently one sold for over five million dollars. It is the book that rescued the name of William Shakespeare and half of his plays from oblivion. The Millionaire and the Bard tells the miraculous and romantic story of the making of the First Folio, and of the American industrialist whose thrilling pursuit of the book became a lifelong...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FOLGER, HENRY MAYDamrosch, Leopold
Summary: "In 1763, the painter Joshua Reynolds proposed to his friend Samuel Johnson that they invite a few friends to join them every Friday at the Turk's Head Tavern in London to dine, drink, and talk until midnight. Eventually the group came to include among its members Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, and James Boswell. It was known simply as "the Club." In this captivating book, Leo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2019