![]() ![]() The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history. ![]() 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. What accounts for Shakespeare's transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed where others have fallen short." (Boston Globe)ฤก599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. Most Popular Audio Between 5 and 10 Hours Long James Shapiro takes on the 'romantic myth' of Shakespeare's timelessness and universality, and through a scholarly and entertaining deep look into one year of Shakespeare's life, gives the reader a wonderfully rich reading of what made up the time, the man, and the work.Most Popular Audio Between 3 and 5 Hours Long.Popular "Always Available" eBooks - No Wait! James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeares staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599: sending off an army to crush. ![]()
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