The Year of Lear Shakespeare in 1606 [True EPUB]
epub | 46.05 MB | James Shapiro
Description: Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro sho how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 affected Shakespeare and shaped the three great tragedies he wrote that year-King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.
In 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 genius was a thing of the past. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn-King Lear-then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.
It was a memorable year in England as well-and a grim one, in the aftermath of a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry that had been uncovered at the last hour. The foiled Gunpowder Plot would have blown up the...
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