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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... wrote his plays and attribute them instead to Christopher Marlowe or Francis Bacon or the latest candidate, the Earl of Oxford. It's unfortunate, because even if we don't know much about his personality, we know a great deal about ...
... wrote Julius Caesar and As You Like It in quick succession, then drafted Hamlet. This book is both about what Shakespeare achieved and what Elizabethans experienced this year. The two are nearly inextricable: it's no more possible to ...
... 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 Shakespeare from his age do so because there is both too much and too little to know about the man and his times. Too ...
... wrote, which actors and playwrights he worked with, and what was going on around him that fueled his imagination. Throughout, I try to be especially cautious when advancing claims about how Shakespeare might have felt—knowing that ...
... wrote his plays but impatient with a series of forced marches through terrain as varied as the gardens of Whitehall Palace and the bogs of Ulster. As in Shakespeare's plays, a scene or two must pass before the hero takes center stage ...
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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 | |