A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599Harper Collins, 13 okt 2009 - 432 pagina's Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award 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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1599 James Shapiro. Shakespeare's England is daunting. They've shown that Elizabethan culture ought to matter a great deal to us, for we've inherited its conflicting views of everything from the nature of the self and sexuality to ...
... Elizabethan playgoers. For Jonson, the two claims weren't mutually exclusive: Shakespeare's appeal is universal precisely because he saw so deeply into the great questions of his day. Shakespeare himself certainly thought of his art in ...
... Elizabethan culture ought to matter a great deal to us, for we've inherited its conflicting views of everything from the nature of the self and sexuality to nationhood and empire. Too little, because we don't know very much about what ...
... Elizabethan men and women delayed marriage until their mid-twenties (and a surprising proportion, including Shakespeare's three brothers, never married at all). Given the extremely low illegitimacy rates at the time, desire either must ...
... Elizabethan England have been preserved—especially the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the British Library (at both its old and new London addresses). Over time, I ...
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Burial at Westminster | |
A Sermon at Richmond | |
Band of Brothers | |
The Passionate Pilgrim | |
Simple Truth Suppressed | |
The Forest of Arden | |
Things Dying Things Newborn | |
Essays and Soliloquies | |
Second Thoughts | |
Epilogue | |
Bibliographical Essay | |
The Globe Rises | |
Book Burning | |
Is This a Holiday? | |
SUMMER | |
The Invisible Armada | |
Acknowledgments | |
About the Author | |
Copyright | |