A Year in the Life of William Shakesp...
James ShapiroA lavishly detailed portrait of a year in the life of the bard traces his career in 1599, which marked the building of the Globe Theater, the English invasion of Ireland, and the creation of the plays, Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You L...
A Year in the Life of William Shakesp...
James Shapiro1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England 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 r...
Contested Will: Who Wrote Shakespeare...
James ShapiroFor more than two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one doubted that he had written his plays. Since then, however, dozens of candidates have been proposed for the authorship of what is generally agreed to be the fi...
Shakespeare in a Divided America: Wha...
James ShapiroOne of the New York TimesTen Best Books of the Year•A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist •A New York Times Notable Book A timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal...
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606...
James ShapiroPreeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. "The Year of Lear is irre...
The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606...
James ShapiroIn the years leading up to 1606, since the death of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in England of her successor, King James of Scotland, Shakespeare's great productivity had ebbed, and it may have seemed to some that his prolific geni...