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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... Hamlet. This book is both about what Shakespeare achieved and what Elizabethans experienced this year. The two are nearly inextricable: it's no more possible to talk about Shakespeare's plays independent of his age than it is to grasp ...
... Hamlet, is to “show... the very age and body of the time his form and pressure” (3.2.20–24). Those who sever Shakespeare from his age do so because there is both too much and too little to know about the man and his times. Too much ...
... Hamlet not have known for a time what to get on with next.” Circularity and arbitrariness are only part of the problem: cradle-to-grave biographers of Shakespeare tend to assume that what makes people who they are now, made people who ...
... Hamlet were written and which they engaged. I had no idea, for example, that England braced itself for an invasion in the summer of 1599, knew almost nothing about why English troops were fighting in Ireland, or about how rigorously the ...
... Hamlet? In search of answers I was fortunate to have access to the archives where the literary treasures of Elizabethan England have been preserved—especially the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., the Huntington Library in ...
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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 | |