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...