![]() ![]() James Shapiro is a Professor at Columbia University in New York, who has taken what relatively little we know of the life of Shakespeare, and woven it together with the detailed history of 1599 to create a vivid account of one year in his life. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare is a book I've been meaning to get around to for ages. ![]() 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. 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. In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed where others have fallen short." ( Boston Globe)ġ599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. 1599: A YEAR IN THE LIFE OF WILLI (9780571214815) by Shapiro, James 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (9780571214808) by James Shapiro Contested. Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prizes 25th Anniversary. What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? Read A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare 1599 by James Shapiro available from Rakuten Kobo. ![]()
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