'Shakespeare's Money' explores what archival records can reveal about Shakespeare's economic and social success, shedding light on how he elevated his family fr

Though better known for his literary merits, Shakespeare made money, wrote about money and enabled money-making by countless others in his name. With chapters b

Making constant recourse to well-known material from Shakespeare's plays, this text demonstrates that terms of money and value permeate our minds and lives even

The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century. For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry V

Named One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time The Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, reissued with a new afterword for the 400th annivers