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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... Richard the Third, Romeo and Juliet, and The First Part of 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 ...
... (Richard and Cuthbert's father and the man who built the Theatre) decided to build an indoor stage in the wealthy London neighborhood of Blackfriars. The venue would have enabled his son Richard and the other shareholders of the ...
... Richard and Cuthbert had no better luck changing Giles Allen's mind. With the Burbages' capital tied up at Blackfriars and the Theatre now in Allen's hands, the Chamberlain's Men, lacking a permanent playing space, were in danger of ...
... Richard and Cuthbert Burbage knew that their father had been savvy enough to put a clause in the original lease stating that while Giles Allen owned the land, Burbage owned the theater he built on it. But since the lease had expired, a ...
... Richard the Third, Romeo and Juliet, and The First Part of 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 ...
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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 | |