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Shakespeare Revealed | |||
| A Biography | Biography | |||
| Rene Weis | ||||
| John Murray 2007 444 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0719564182 | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| Intimacies with Marlowe, entanglements with the dark lady, a probable illegitimate son - the mysteries of Shakespeare's personal life have proven tantalizingly obscure. In this compelling biography, Rene Weis reveals how the plays and poems themselves contain a rich seam of clues about Shakespeare's life, from his heretical dalliances with Catholicism to his grief at the death of his son Hamnet. Weis consolidates these textual findings with archival research and reconstructs a colourful picture of Shakespeare's daily life in Stratford and London. | ||||
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The Pirate Queen | |||
| Elizabeth I, her Pirate Adventurers and the Dawn of Empire | Biography | |||
| Susan Ronald | ||||
| Sutton 2007 471 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0750948418 | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| It was Philip II of Spain who dubbed Elizabeth the 'Pirate Queen', and he was not far wrong. Elizabeth was acutely aware of the vulnerability of her Protestant nation, and fully understood how vital sea power was to its survival: in the words of Sir Walter Raleigh, 'Whoever commands the sea commands trade'. Susan Ronald ably demonstrates the thin line between Elizabethan merchant adventurer and pirate, and shows how state-sponsored piracy and plunder played an important part in transforming England into a world power. | ||||
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