A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599 (P.S.) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 7 days | |Short Description for A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare In 1599, an epochal year for Shakespeare and England, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays while Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, and gambled on a fledgling East India Company. Shapiro brings together the news and the intrigue of the times in this gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.
Full description- Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
- Published: 01 June 2006
- Format: Paperback 394 pages
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- Categories: Biography: Literary | Autobiography: Literary | Shakespeare Studies & Criticism | British & Irish History
- ISBN 13: 9780060088743 ISBN 10: 0060088745
- Sales rank: 113,865
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Full description for A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and EnglandShakespeare 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.
