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. |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 8
... lost years” between his departure from Stratford and his arrival in London. Those committed to discovering the adult Shakespeare's personality in his formative experiences end up hunting for hints in the plays that they then read back ...
... lost to Shakespeare: England's recent Catholic past, the deforested landscape of his native Arden, and a rapidly fading chivalric culture. My ignorance extended beyond history. Along with other scholars, I didn't fully grasp how ...
... lost Hamlet). As the men approached the hulking building the Theatre itself must have seemed a ghostly presence, vacant now for two years in the aftermath of a fallout between the Chamberlain's Men and their prickly landlord, Giles ...
... Lost, Romeo and Juliet, King John, Richard the Second, The Merchant of Venice, and The First Part of Henry the Fourth. But by the end of 1596, following one of his most successful efforts, The First Part of Henry the Fourth, this ...
... lost plays, what playwrights were paid, and who collaborated with whom. Other entries list gate receipts, expenditures for costumes and props, and in some instances on which days particular plays were performed. About half of all plays ...
Inhoudsopgave
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 | |