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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... court on New Year's Day. Assuming that the job would probably take more than a day, they were left with a very narrow window. The snow and cold were unfortunate, and would make the work misery for the carpenters handling the frozen ...
... court battle against the seizure, Shakespeare's alternatives would have been limited. It's hard to see how the Chamberlain's Men could have survived for long as an ensemble without a permanent playhouse—and their arrangement at the ...
... Court, the universities, and various trades. About the only thing these writers had in common was that they were all from the middling classes. There were about fifteen of them at work in 1599, and they knew one another and one ...
... court. Fortunately for London's actors and playwrights, the queen and her court enjoyed seeing plays. But Elizabeth didn't want to pay to keep a retinue of actors for a halfdozen or so command performances a year. She found it easier ...
... court far more than all other companies combined, fifteen times in the past three years (and his company also gave private performances for aristocrats, both in London or on tour at their great houses in the country). They were keenly ...
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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 | |