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  • Shakespeare's First Reader

    The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley

    Serier serie Material Texts
    Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence; his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a guaranteed income, was the kind of which many men dreamed. Vast sums of money passed through his hands, ... Læs mere

    269,99 kr.

  • Shakespeare's First Reader

    The Paper Trails of Richard Stonley

    Serier serie Material Texts
    Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence; his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a guaranteed income, was the kind of which many men dreamed. Vast sums of money passed through his hands, ... Læs mere

    337,49 kr.

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  • Shakespeare's First Folio

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  • The Life of William Shakespeare

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