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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... called Henslowe's Diary, a ledger or account book belonging to Philip Henslowe, owner of the Rose Theatre, in which he recorded his business activities, mostly theatrical, from 1592 to 1609. The Diary is a mine of information ...
... called Whitehall.” The courtier who so carelessly spoke of “York Place” apologetically explains that “I know it, / But 'tis so lately altered that the old name / Is fresh about me” (4.1.95–99). Whitehall's identity was subject to royal ...
... called the Wunderkammer, or wonder-cabinet. Ancestor of the modern museum, the wonder-cabinet was usually a room set aside to display exotic objects. The finest of these in London probably belonged to Walter Cope, a merchant-adventurer ...
... called “saucy fellow” and “other words of disgrace.” If, as is likely, the Chamberlain's Men presented their resident playwright's most recent work at court during the Christmas season of 1598, they would be staging The Second Part of ...
... called for, fellow sharer Thomas Pope, adept in comic roles, could step in. But Kemp's jigs were a thing of the past; Shakespeare now got in the last word at the Globe. Shakespeare's victory over Kemp (even if Kemp had left by A Battle ...