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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... Jonson's assertion that Shakespeare was “not of an age but for all time” and to forget that Jonson also called his great rival the “soul of the age” whose plays captivated Elizabethan playgoers. For Jonson, the two claims weren't ...
... Jonson, Thomas Dekker, and Thomas Heywood) were only beginning to find their voices. In the course of a few short years Shakespeare had gone from “upstart crow” (Robert Greene's jealous and belittling label) to grizzled veteran, and was ...
... , John Day, Thomas Dekker, Michael Drayton, Richard Hathaway, William Haughton, Thomas Heywood, Ben Jonson, John Marston, Anthony Munday, Henry Porter, Robert Wilson, and of course Shakespeare. Collectively this year they wrote.
... Jonson had quarreled with Gabriel Spencer, a rising star (and shareholder) in the Admiral's Men, and in the ensuing duel near the Curtain killed him. Jonson, who was briefly imprisoned, only escaped hanging by reading his “neck verse”—a ...
... it's unlikely that he learned of his son's demise in time to return home for his funeral. Unlike Ben Jonson, who left such a touching poem on the death of his young son and namesake Benjamin, Shakespeare left no testimonial.
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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 | |