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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... This a Holiday? 138 – SUMMER – 9. The Invisible Armada The Passionate Pilgrim Simple Truth Suppressed The Forest of Arden ix xi 23 43 58 73 85 107 118 8. 7. 173 188 203 230 13. 14. 15. – AUTUMN – Things Dying, Things Newborn.
... Things had begun to go wrong two years earlier, when James Burbage (Richard and Cuthbert's father and the man who built the Theatre) decided to build an indoor stage in the wealthy London neighborhood of Blackfriars. The venue would ...
... thing they 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 ...
... thing these writers had in common was that they were all from the middling classes. There were about fifteen of them at work in 1599, and they knew one another and one another's writing styles well: George Chapman, Henry Chettle, John ...
... Porter, was less forgiving, and classed Day among the “rogues” and “base fellows.” London's civic leaders didn't share the popular enthusiasm for the rough-and-tumble world of theater. Their view of things is offered Prologue 11.