A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599Harper Collins, 18 okt 2005 - 394 pagina's What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen. James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history. |
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... English fell short of what his imagination conjured—jarred with the demands of writing plays that had to please all ... English histories, and some of the best comedies that the English stage had ever seen, it was only in the past year ...
... English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage. For comedy, witness his Gentlemen of Verona, his [Comedy of] Errors, his Love Labor's Lost, his Love Labor's Won, his Midsummer's Night Dream, and his Merchant of Venice. For ...
... English power, beginning with the queen and radiating out through her privy councillors and lesser courtiers. A cross between ancient Rome's Senate and Coliseum, Whitehall was where ambassadors were entertained, bears baited, domestic ...
... English, along with some of Elizabeth's own manuscripts. This wasn't just show: William Camden records that Elizabeth “either read or wrote something every day” and that in 1598 she “turned into the English tongue the greatest part of ...