![]() Shapiro's informed enthusiasm and energetic prose is addictive. The audacious focus on just one year pays off magnificently.' Sunday Times 'A far richer, more intimate portrait of our greatest author than you're likely to find in any cradle-to-grave biography.' Daily Mail 'Gripping and illuminating.' Telegraph 'A fascinating and entirely believable portrait of a talented workaholic. ![]() Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet Elizabethans sent. James Shapiro - 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. 'A brilliant study, which carefully unpacks a single year in Shakespeare's life. Get this from a library A year in the life of William Shakespeare, 1599. In 1599 Shakespeare was thirty five and, that year, would write four plays - Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It and Hamlet. ![]() This book brings the news, intrigue and flavour of the times together with wonderful detail about how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman and playwright, to create an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history. This is an interesting look at a single year in the life of William Shakespeare and the political and social events which were happening at the time. ![]() Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize and the Baillie Gifford 'Winner of Winners' award in 2023 How did Shakespeare go from being a talented poet and playwright to become one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he saw and who he worked with as he invests in the new Globe theatre and creates four of his most famous plays - Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet. ![]()
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