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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... danger of becoming homeless. By early December, Richard Burbage had quietly approached five of his fellow actor-shareholders in the company—William Shakespeare, John Heminges, Augustine Phillips, Thomas Pope, and Will Kemp— with a plan ...
... dangerous persons”). But the city fathers could do little about it, since the playing companies were patronized by influential aristocrats, including members of the Privy Council (after the queen, the most powerful political body in the ...
... dangers of pursuing honor in The First Part of Henry the Fourth: “Honor pricks me on. Yea, but how if honor prick me off when I come on?...What is that 'honor'? Air” (5.1.129–35). The gist of Matthew's multilayered observation seems to ...
... danger of alienating one powerful faction while pleasing another. Shakespeare walked a careful line, but as the Isle of Dogs episode made clear, the punishment for overstepping the bounds of the acceptable was severe. Trying to satisfy ...
... dangerous to sell the bear which is not yet hunted, to promise to the public what they have not written.” Johnson apparently hadn't considered reasons for Shakespeare's decision that had nothing to do with character or plot but rather ...