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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... lived, on the average, until their mid-forties (only one of Shakespeare seven brothers and sisters made it past forty-six). Eldest sons like Shakespeare inherited all, creating friction among siblings. Even such constants as love and ...
... lived. Put another way: how, in the course of little over a year, did he go from writing The Merry Wives of Windsor to writing a play as inspired as Hamlet? In search of answers I was fortunate to have access to the archives where the ...
... lived in the parish of St. Mary Aldermanbury, had learned that a neighbor, Sir Nicholas Brend, was looking to rent some land in Southwark. The property was a stone's throw from the Rose Theatre, home of their main rivals, the Admiral's ...
... lived at a great distance from his family, returning home infrequently. Hamnet and his twin sister, Judith, had been baptized on February 2, 1585, born two years after their elder sister Susanna. By the end of the 1580s, Shakespeare ...
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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 | |