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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... Henry the Fifth, which he had been thinking about for several years—as far back as 1596, when he decided to stretch the plot of his main dramatic source, the anonymous Famous Victories of Henry the Fifth, to cover the two parts of Henry ...
... Henry the Fifth acknowledges —with its backward glance at a decade's worth of history plays with which he had entertained Shoreditch audiences—Henry the Fifth marked the end of one stage of his career and the uncharted beginning of ...
... Henry the Fifth, capstone to the historical sequence that had begun four years earlier with Richard the Second and continued in the two parts of Henry the Fourth. Tagged onto the end of the epilogue is a forced apology for using ...
... Henry the Fifth about seeing “perspectively” (5.2.321). What the Chorus in this play calls the “Wooden O,” the theater itself, operates much like this Whitehall portrait: its lens is capable of giving shape and meaning to the world, but ...
... Henry the Fourth at the Curtain, the play had ended with an epilogue spoken by Will Kemp. Characters who deliver Shakespeare's epilogues tend to straddle fictional and real worlds, and this play's ending is no exception. As the fifth ...
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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 | |