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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... Other than the Tower of London, which housed England's arsenal, about the only places to. Southwark and the Globe Theatre, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1647. The Globe is on the left, Will Kemp, Kemp's Nine Days Wonder (1600). Prologue.
... Kemp— with a plan. The first thing they needed to do was find a new site for a theater, one that was accessible to London's playgoers but outside the city limits (where playhouses weren't subject to the authority of the often hostile ...
... Kemp, and Pope—were at the scene as well, among the unnamed “diverse other persons” accompanying the Burbages. Outmanned, a couple of Giles Allen's friends, one with power of attorney, tried to stop the trespassers, to no avail. A silk ...
... Kemp's improvisational clowning. Augustine Phillips and George Bryan had been acting professionally for over a decade; Thomas Pope, who excelled at comic roles, even longer. Henry Condell, Will Sly, John Duke, John Holland, and ...
... Kemp figured prominently in these plays as Falstaff in the two parts of Henry the Fourth and Merry Wives, and then as the bumbling constable Dogberry in Much Ado. These were popular plays and Kemp a crowdpleaser. But Shakespeare was ...