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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... 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 city fathers). Members of the company ...
... needed competition to push him to the next level, and in 1597 and 1598 there wasn't enough of it. The scarcity of recently staged plays in London's bookstalls was further evidence that 1597 and 1598 were relatively lean years. Yet ...
... needed for the queen and seven hundred or so of her retainers to manage administrative and ceremonial affairs at a new locale. A century later Whitehall would burn to the ground, leaving “nothing but walls and ruins.” Archaeological ...