A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599 / James Shapiro.
Shapiro, James, 1955-
2005
PR2907 .S47 2005 (Mapit)
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Title A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599 / James Shapiro.
Author Shapiro, James, 1955-
Edition 1st U.S. ed.
ISBN 0060088737 (alk. paper)
Publication Details New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 2005.
Language English
Description xix, 394 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Item Number 978060088736
Call Number PR2907 .S47 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification 822.3/3
Summary An intimate history of Shakespeare, following him through a single year--1599--that changed not only his fortunes but the course of literature. How was Shakespeare transformed from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he sees, and whom he works with as he invests in the new Globe Theatre and creates four of his most famous plays--Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet. Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare's staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599: sending off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathering an Armada threat from Spain, gambling on the fledgling East India Company, and waiting to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (p. [335]-376) and index.
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Winter
A battle of wills
A great blow in Ireland
Burial at Westminster
A sermon at Richmond
Band of brothers
Spring
The globe rises
Book burning
Is this a holiday?
Summer
The invisible Armada
The passionate pilgrim
Simple truth suppressed
The forest of Arden
Autumn
Things dying, things newborn
Essays and soliloquies
Second thoughts.

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