The Shakespeare Shapiro painstakingly and subtly presents here is a virtuoso remix artist, a textual sponge, a magpie, a master-orchestrator of the Zeitgeist. (Colm Tóibín Guardian)Ī book for anyone interested in history, or literature, or in the creation of the greatest play ever written.
(Andrew Motion)ġ606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear is a meticulous narrative of a momentous year in the life of the playwright and a masterpiece of intelligent literary criticism. His particular gift as a literary historian is to combine great good sense with daring imaginative reach. 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear succeeds brilliantly in the very difficult task of matching James Shapiro's previous and companion volume, 1599, for intensity of narrative and depth of insight.
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