A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599

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What accounts for Shakespeare’s transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the crucial greatest writers who ever lived? On this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to reply to this query, “succeed[ing] where others have fallen short.” (Boston Globe)

1599 used to be an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. All the way through 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 revolt, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to look who would succeed their aging and childless queen.

James Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare’s staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced for the duration of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with an exquisite evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.

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