{"product_id":"shakespeare-and-co","title":"Shakespeare and Co.","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Enjoyable, lively … such a pleasure to read … renders the drama of Shakespeare’s contemporaries more than fringe entertainment’  \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShakespeare is one of the greatest of all English figures, considered a genius for all time. Yet as this enthralling book shows, he was at heart a man of the theatre, one among a community of artists in the teeming world of Renaissance London – from the enigmatic spy Christopher Marlowe to the self-aggrandizing Ben Jonson, from the actor Richard Burbage to the brilliant Thomas Middleton. By bringing Shakespeare’s contemporaries to life, \u003ci\u003eShakespeare \u0026amp; Co\u003c\/i\u003e throws fresh new light on the man himself.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Warm, cheerful, generous … Wells sketches a whole gallery of Shakespeare’s fellow playwrights … He brings each vividly to life, making you feel that you’ve met them personally in some Blackfriars tavern’  Simon Callow \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘It was a time and place teeming with excitement, anecdote and incident, and Wells, in this richly enjoyable work, brings it to life with a novelist’s sense of the telling detail’  Dominic Dromgoole \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘Enthralling’  \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘This is one of the most sane and exciting books on Shakespeare I have read for a long time’ \u003ci\u003eScotland\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54227535626584,"sku":"9780141017136","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780141017136.jpg?v=1779940813","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/shakespeare-and-co","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}