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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... letter—where he might have seen the Chamberlain's Men perform The Merry Wives of Windsor, in which a sexually rapacious Falstaff gets his comeuppance. Essex loathed Cobham and alluding to Shakespeare's character was a way of tweaking ...
... letter from London that Sir John Falstaff is by his Mrs. Dame Pintpot made father of a goodly miller's thumb, a boy that is all head and very little body.” No other Elizabethan playwright's words or characters served as a similar kind ...
... where money could secure a better seat. An excruciating example of how social hierarchy was maintained survives in a letter from a secretary to the Earl of Essex named Edward Jones. Jones, who 30 A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.