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Who Wrote Shakespeare?
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays....
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Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet a...
The Troubling Story of the World's Most Famous Passion Play
The Bavarian village of Oberammergau has staged the trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Christ nearly every decade since 1634. Each production of ...
What His Plays Tell Us About Our Past and Future
One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year • A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist • A New York Times Notable Book A timely expl...
First published in 1996, James Shapiro's pathbreaking analysis of the portrayal of Jews in Elizabethan England challenged readers to recognize the sig...
A Story of Theatre, Democracy and the Making of a Culture War
From the 'Winner of Winners' of the Baillie Gifford Prize, a timely and dramatic story of a utopian American experiment, and the self-serving politici...
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize, and shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' award in 2023 How did Shakespeare go from being a tal...
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Shakespeare in 1606
"Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 affected Shakespeare and shaped the three great trage...
William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabet...
A View from the 21st Century
This book proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological evolution. Shapiro demonstrates why traditional views of evolution are inade...
A lavishly detailed portrait of a year in the life of the bard traces his career in 1599, which marked the building of the Globe Theater, the English ...
The Case for William Shakespeare of Stratford
This ebook is an excerpt from Contested Will by James Shapiro, and originally appeared as the last section titled "Shakespeare." In this chapter, Shap...
The Columbia Anthology of British Poetry brings together the most remarkable verse written in the British Isles over the course of the past twelve cen...
Marlowe, Jonson, Shakespeare
James A. Shapiro proposes an important new paradigm for understanding biological evolution, the core organizing principle of biology. Shapiro introduc...
A View from the 21st Century. Fortified.
How Women Can Make Courageous Choices
This inspirational book is the captivating true chronicle of author Jim Shapiro's epic 80-day, 3,026-mile run across America in the summer of 1980. Ba...
Running Across America
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A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 Shakespeare's position as England's national poet is established and unquestionable. But as James Shapiro illumi...
The Guide to Huge Cash Awards, Lifetime Payments & Maximum Money. By Jim "The Hammer" Shapiro. Learn how to wring Maximum Money Awards out of: Smug In...