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1606 - Shakespeare and the Year of Lear (Paperback, Main)
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1606 - Shakespeare and the Year of Lear (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R341
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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
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