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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... and Soliloquies 15. Second Thoughts Epilogue Bibliographical Essay Acknowledgments Searchable Terms About the Author Also by James Shapiro Credits Copyright About the Publisher PREFACE In 1599, Elizabethans sent off an army to crush.
... . For Jonson, the two claims weren't mutually exclusive: Shakespeare's appeal is universal precisely because he saw so deeply into the great questions of his day. Shakespeare himself certainly thought of his art in this.
1599 James Shapiro. day. Shakespeare himself certainly thought of his art in this way: the “purpose of playing,” he wrote in Hamlet, is to “show... the very age and body of the time his form and pressure” (3.2.20–24). Those who sever ...
... thought to write a memoir or keep a personal diary in Shakespeare's day—revealing enough facts in themselves—we don't know whether their emotional lives were like ours. Their formative years certainly weren't. Strangers breast-fed ...
... thought to begin and end in Tudor England isn't easily answered). Inevitably, I end up focusing more on things that can be dated, such as political and literary events, rather than on more gradual and less perceptible historical shifts ...
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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 | |