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1606 - Shakespeare and the Year of Lear (Paperback, Main): James Shapiro

1606 - Shakespeare and the Year of Lear (Paperback, Main)

James Shapiro

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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear. 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, which witnessed the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional one for Shakespeare, unrivalled at identifying the fault-lines of his cultural moment, who before the year was out went on to complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke directly to these fraught times: Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. Following the biographical style of 1599, a way of thinking and writing that Shapiro has made his own, 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear promises to be one of the most significant and accessible works on Shakespeare in the decade to come

General

Imprint: Faber and Faber
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: April 2016
Authors: James Shapiro
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 423
Edition: Main
ISBN-13: 978-0-571-23579-7
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > 16th to 18th centuries
Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
Books > Humanities > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > 16th to 18th centuries > Shakespeare studies & criticism
Books > History > British & Irish history > General
Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN: 0-571-23579-4
Barcode: 9780571235797

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