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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... turning Oldcastle to Falstaff. The antagonism did not stop there, however, suggesting that the slight wasn't accidental. If Shakespeare had unknowingly stumbled and insulted the Cobhams the first time around, he probably did so ...
... turn gave voice to their political experiences, and his words entered into the court vocabulary as a shorthand for the complicated maneuvering and gossip that defined court life. Tobie Matthew, for example, can write to Dudley Carleton ...
... turn in Henry the Fifth. Since at least the eighteenth century, critics have struggled to make sense of Shakespeare's change of heart about Falstaff. Why would he abandon one of his great creations—especially after promising that we'd ...