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		Shakespeare Revealed
		A Biography		Biography
		Rene Weis
		John Murray 2007  444 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0719564182		Qty
		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.

		The Pirate Queen
		Elizabeth I, her Pirate Adventurers and the Dawn of Empire		Biography
		Susan Ronald
		Sutton 2007  471 pages
		Hardback  Illustrated  0750948418		Qty
		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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