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: 11-02-2014
    • 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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    • By: Fintan O'Toole
    • Narrated by: Fintan O'Toole
    • Length: 5 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • The works of Shakespeare have become staples of literature. They are everywhere, from our early schooling to the lecture rooms of academia, from classic theatre to modern adaptations on stage and screen. But how well do we really know his plays?

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    • A History of the Plantagenet Dynasty
    • By: Desmond Seward
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-2017
    • Language: English
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    • The Plantagenets reigned over England longer than any other family - from Henry II to Richard III....

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    • How Doubting the Bard Became the Biggest Taboo in Literature
    • By: Elizabeth Winkler
    • Narrated by: Eunice Wong
    • Length: 14 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies investigates the Shakespeare authorship question, exploring how doubting that William Shakespeare wrote his plays became an act of blasphemy…and who the Bard might really be....

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    • The Betrayal of Anne Boleyn
    • By: Estelle Paranque
    • Narrated by: Anna Wilson-Jones
    • Length: 8 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-05-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Estelle Paranque takes us back to where it all started: to France, where Anne learned the lessons that would set her on the path to becoming one of England's most infamous queens....

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    • Life in Shakespeare’s London
    • By: Catharine Arnold
    • Narrated by: Clare Staniforth
    • Length: 9 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 30-11-2021
    • 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: Gary Blackwood
    • Narrated by: Stuart Blinder
    • Series: The Shakespeare Stealer, Book 1
    • Length: 5 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 21-02-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Widge is an orphan with a rare talent for shorthand. His fearsome master has just one demand: steal Shakespeare's play "Hamlet" - or else. Widge has no choice but to follow orders, so he works his way into the heart of the Globe Theatre, where Shakespeare's players perform....

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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: 23-01-2015
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • Four Women Who Wrote the Renaissance
    • By: Ramie Targoff
    • Narrated by: Hannah Curtis
    • Length: 11 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-2024
    • Language: English
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    • This remarkable work about women writers in the English Renaissance explodes our notion of the Shakespearean period by drawing us into the lives of four women who were committed to their craft long before there was any possibility of 'a room of one's own'....

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    • By: Neil MacGregor
    • Narrated by: Neil MacGregor
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 21-06-2012
    • 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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    • The Many Queer Lives of William Shakespeare
    • By: Will Tosh
    • Narrated by: Will Tosh
    • Length: 8 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 13-06-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Straight Acting is a surprising portrait of Shakespeare's queer lives - his own and those in his plays and poems. It is a journey back in time and through Shakespeare's England, revealing a culture that both endorsed and supressed same-sex desire.

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    • A Captivating Guide to a Remarkable Period in European History, Including Stories of People Such as Galileo Galilei, Michelangelo, Copernicus, Shakespeare, and Leonardo da Vinci
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Richard L. Walton
    • Length: 3 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-03-2019
    • Language: English
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    • If you want to discover the captivating history of the Renaissance, then pay attention....

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    • By: Nicholas Shakespeare
    • Narrated by: Peter Noble
    • Length: 16 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Random House presents the audiobook edition of Six Minutes in May by Nicholas Shakespeare, read by Peter Noble....

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    • By: Nicolas Soames
    • Narrated by: Trevor Nichols, Katinka Wolf
    • Length: 2 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-1999
    • Language: English
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    • Here are the stories of nine people whose energy, imagination, courage, and determination changed the world. From Christopher Columbus who set off into unknown seas...

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