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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... Henry the Fifth, wrote Julius Caesar and As You Like It in quick succession, then drafted Hamlet. This book is both about what Shakespeare achieved and what Elizabethans experienced this year. The two are nearly inextricable: it's no ...
... Henry the Fourth; he also wrote for and acted alongside its most talented ensemble of players. The Chamberlain's Men had been together for five years, having emerged out of the remnants of broken and reconfigured companies, its players ...
... Henry the Fourth; he also wrote for and acted alongside its most talented ensemble of players. The Chamberlain's Men had been together for five ... fifth of them Shakespeare's. When Shakespeare sat down to write a play, it was with the ...
... five years since he had last found himself in such a situation. At that time he was torn between pursuing a career in ... Henry the Fourth. But by the end of 1596, following one of his most successful efforts, The First Part of Henry the ...
... Henry Carey, the lord chamberlain (whose son, George Carey, succeeded him as their patron, and later as lord ... five days at least just to find Shakespeare—so it's unlikely that he learned of his son's demise in time to return home for ...
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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 | |