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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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Visitors were encouraged to extend the bar and view the portrait hrough a small hole or "O" cut in the plate: to their surprise, "the ugly face changed into a well-formed one. 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. It's good in the overall picture of England and Europe, but also in the details - delicious the comment on how many words Shakespeare used for the first time in Hamlet - six hundred.

Seller has stated it will dispatch the item within 1 working day upon receipt of cleared payment - opens in a new window or tab . A far richer, more intimate portrait of our greatest author than you're likely to find in any cradle-to-grave biography.A Year in the Life of William Shakespeareby James Shapiro is tonight, Thursday 27 April, named winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ Award. A few years earlier this famous picture had inspired Shakespeare's lines about point of view in Richard the Second : "Like perspectives, which rightly gazed upon / Show nothing but confusion, eyed awry / Distinguish form" (2. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). James Shapiro's 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear (Faber) brings to dazzling life the world from which sprang the best crop of new plays in theatre history.

Thomas Nashe's and Gabriel Harvey's works were singled out for special attention: "None of their books be ever printed hereafter. It doesn't necessarily rule out the possibility of another author (eg Earl of Oxford) who would, presumably, have been influenced by the same conditions - one might argue in fact that Oxford would have been closer to these events. A cross between ancient Rome's Senate and Coliseum, Whitehall was where ambassadors were entertained, bears baited, domestic and foreign policy determined, lucrative monopolies dispensed, Accession Day tilts run, and Shrovetide sermons preached.James Shapiro's outstanding 1606 (Faber), in which the Jacobean Shakes­peare gets his due, follow[s] Shapiro's magnificent take on the Elizabethan one in 1599. Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Whitehall, her only London residence, was also her favorite palace, and she spent a quarter of her reign there, especially around Christmas. For twenty-five years, the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction has recognized immensely talented authors.

Whitehall figured strongly enough in Shakespeare's imagination to make a cameo appearance in his late play Henry the Eighth. If you want to know Oberammergau's play survived while countless others just like it disappeared, Mr.

Then there was the notion that by linking scraps of documentary evidence with a careful scrutiny of clues buried in the plays, it was possible, even desirable, to compose a plausible narrative about the life and times of a great Elizabethan that might also appeal to a 21st-century audience. Choosing one book seems an impossible task and we thank the judges for taking on the unenviable responsibility. Kirkus Reviews said 1599 is "an intriguing addition to Shakespeare studies" that is "sure to be hated by Harold Bloom and others who view any attempt to locate the Bard in history as blasphemy against the religion of Pure Art, but open-minded readers will be stimulated and enriched by Shapiro’s contextual approach. Most Shakespeare experts have a lot to say about the conspiracy theorists who deny Shakespeare’s authorship of his own plays – but very little of it is printable, let alone as readable as James Shapiro’s Contested Will…. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

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