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1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023

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From the deliciously vivid first pages, in which a group of armed theatricals make a dash through the snow in the dead of night to filch a theatre's timber frame and transfer it to the Globe, Shapiro weaves a tantalizing narrative. Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . able-bodied Elizabethan men between the ages of sixteen and sixty, all of whom were potential conscripts. If you want to know Oberammergau's play survived while countless others just like it disappeared, Mr. As he complains, the argument about the poverty of Shakespeare's experience refuses to acknowledge what he learned from books: all his plays are retold tales or commentaries on recorded history.

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He is particularly eloquent when addressing the thorny issue of the religious affinities of the Shakespeare family. 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.

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, Shapiro shows how The Bard progressed from his tale of two star-crossed lovers to Hamlet. James Shapiro arrives at an interpretation of [Shakespeare] and his work that is unparalleled in its lucidity and originality.

More damningly, the doubters fail to credit Shakespeare with possessing imagination which, as Theseus says in A Midsummer Night's Dream, means the capacity to mould "airy nothing" into matter and create alternative worlds out of words. Mahaney, author of: ‘Ice on the Equator – Quaternary Geology of Mount Kenya, East Africa’, ‘Atlas of Sand Grain Surface Textures and Applications’, and 'Hannibal's Odyssey: The Environmental Background to the Alpine Invasion of Italia". serves as the first full-length discussion of the big authorship question by a Shakespeare pro in 100 years, maybe the first ever. The Shakespeare that emerges is both simple and mysterious: a man of the theatre, who read, observed, listened and remembered. James Shapiro, who teaches English at Columbia University in New York, is author of several books, including 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare (winner of the BBC4 Samuel Johnson Prize in 2006), as well as Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare?Seamlessly weaving colourful history with biography and lit crit, it's both erudite and accessible - highly deserving of its place on this year's Samuel Johnson Prize long list. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. The winner was announced by Chair of Judges, Jason Cowley, at a ceremony hosted at the National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.

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