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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... seems to have only written three plays: a second part to Henry the Fourth and two comedies, The Merry Wives of Windsor and the witty Much Ado About Nothing. Will Kemp figured prominently in these plays as Falstaff in the two parts of ...
... seems to have 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 ...
... seems to be that while these ambitious men are spurred (pricked) on by honor, the consensus at court is that this pursuit will prove disastrous (to “prick off” means to be marked to die). It's not the only such example committed to ...
... 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 lot longer than usual to complete, and it's unlikely that it was ready to be ...
... seem to represent a human being.” Installed on the right side of the painting was an iron bar with a plate attached to it. Visitors were encouraged to extend the bar and view the portrait through a small hole or “O” cut in the plate: to ...