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`A lively picture of multiple operators scrambling to steal a march on the competition . . . Lavishly detailed¿Financial Times

The never-before-told story of how the makers of The First Folio created Shakespeare as we know him today. 2023 marks the 400-year anniversary of the publication of Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies, known today simply as the First Folio. It is difficult to imagine a world without The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, and Macbeth, but these are just some of the plays that were only preserv...

Bleed and See is an elegy for Chris Laoutaris' brother, George Laoutaris, whose premature death is grasped so close in the poet's hands, it passes with the beauty of the last of the summer roses. Chris Laoutaris quotes from an army of rich sources, from Desiderius Erasmus to Denise Levertov, with the inner strength to match them: "wisdom acquired through suffering is a kind of gift". Bleed and See is an otherworldly, moon-drenched collection w...

The true story of how the First Folio creators made 'Shakespeare

This study looks at the epistemological significance of maternity in early modern England. It reaches beyond the domestic sphere of the rituals of childbirth, midwifery and wet-nursing and the dominant male discourses articulate in early conduct manuals, sermons and obstetrical tracts. In this book maternity is put centre stage relation to the work of Shakespeare.Exploring 'anatomy' in Hamlet, 'natural history' in The Tempest, 'demonology' in ...

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In November 1596, a woman signed a document that would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare . . . Who was this woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life? Never far from controversy when she was alive-she sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of breaking-and-entering, bribery, blackmail, kidnapping and armed combat-Lady Elizabeth Russell, the self-styled Dowager Countess of Bedford, ha...