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Write Your Own Storybook

By Stowell, Louie, Louie Stowell, Jane Chisholm

How to Say Babylon: A Jamaican Memoir

By Safiya Sinclair

Odd Boy Out: The "hilarious, eye-popping, unforgettable" Sunday Times bestseller

By Gyles Brandreth

Selected Poems

By Christina Rossetti

Jane Austen's Letters

By Jane Austen

Shakespeare – The Later Years

By Fraser, R

Shakespeare, in Fact

By Irvin Leigh Matus

Shakespeare in the Stratford Records

By Robert Bearman

The Real Shakepeare – Retrieving the Early Years 1564–1594

By Sams, Eric

William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life

By Samuel Schoenbaum

Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography: New Evidence of an Authorship Problem: 94 (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies)

By Diana Price

The Dubliner: The Lives, Times and Writings of James Clarence Mangan

By Brendan Clifford

Hamlet and the Baker's Son: My Life in Theatre and Politics

By Augusto Boal

Slippery Characters: Ethnic Impersonators and American Identities

By Laura Browder

With Friends Possessed: A Life of Edward FitzGerald

By Robert Bernard Martin

Peter Nichols Diaries, 1969-1977

By Nichols, Peter

Daniel Defoe: His Life

By Backscheider, Paula R.

Shelley: The Pursuit

By Richard Holmes

Andrew Marvell: World Enough and Time

By Nicholas Murray

Ariel

By andre maurois

Anton Chekhov's Life and Thought: Selected Letters and Commentary

By Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

Antonin Artaud: Selected Writings

By Artaud

Theatremachine

By Müller, Heiner

Tragicomedy and Contemporary Culture: Play and Performance from Beckett to Shepard

By John Orr

Edgar the Playwright

By Susan Painter

John Gay, a Profession of Friendship

By David Nokes

Antonin Artaud: Blows and Bombs

By Stephen Barber

Samuel Johnson

By John Wain

Stone Cottage: Pound, Yeats, and Modernism

By James Longenbach

Madder Music, Stronger Wine: The Life of Ernest Dowson, Poet and Decadent

By Jad Adams