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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... character is part of an in-joke about Lord Cobham (now nicknamed Falstaff for his family's opposition to Shakespeare's use of the name Oldcastle) playing the marital field, pursuing Ratcliff's beautiful sister Margaret. Rumor also had ...
... characters served as a similar kind of code for courtiers at this time because no other writer spoke to their preoccupations so directly as Shakespeare. It's no surprise that the few references at this time to popular plays performed in ...
... characters that are introduced then mysteriously disappear, repetitions that seem to be ghostly remnants of earlier drafts—testify to the extent to which Shakespeare's conception of the play kept changing. It seems to have taken him a ...
... character named Rumor, a familiar presence at court—“Open your ears, for which of you will stop / The vent of hearing when loud Rumor speaks”: Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every A Battle of Wills 31.
... Characters who deliver Shakespeare's epilogues tend to straddle fictional and real worlds, and this play's ending is no exception. As the fifth act comes to a close, Sir John Falstaff—played by Kemp— is hauled off to the Fleet prison ...