1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: Winner of the Baillie Gifford Winner of Winners Award 2023

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Just one of his points: Shakespeare was writing for a very sophisticated and knowledgeable audience, inasmuch as it is "likely that over a third of London's adult population saw a play every month.

A far richer, more intimate portrait of our greatest author than you're likely to find in any cradle-to-grave biography. Desde Coleridge, a visão predominante era que o poeta não só transcendeu sua idade, mas também, nas palavras de Coleridge, escreveu "exatamente como se fosse de outro planeta". Though done quietly, everyone, including those clamoring for a copy of the sold-out book, soon learned what had happened. Shakespeare's first draft, which he finished near the end of 1599, was far too long to be performed, and since the eighteenth century the play has existed in "multiple, hybrid versions.

This is one of those rare academic studies that reads like a novel – a novel with at least one major revelation per page…It's a work of genius.

Sanitation issues, the difficulties of feeding so many courtiers with limited local supplies, and perhaps restlessness, too, made the Elizabethan court resemble a large-scale touring company that annually wound its way through the royal palaces of Whitehall, Greenwich, Richmond, St. Shapiro enfatiza que Richard III, escrito no início da década de 1590, foi a peça que permaneceu mais popular na vida de Shakespeare do que Hamlet. James Shapiro's 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear (Faber) brings to dazzling life the world from which sprang the best crop of new plays in theatre history.

Only an extraordinary scholar could illuminate Shakespeare's singular genius by demonstrating how much his work owes to Elizabethan cultureandsociety. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. Stephen Greenblatt, a renowned Shakespearean scholar who was also an adviser on the film, was perhaps the first brilliantly to transplant the groves of academe to Hollywood with his bestselling Will in the World. The palace was a far cry from anything he had ever experienced in his native Stratford-upon-Avon, which extant wills and town records portray as a drab backwater, devoid of high culture. Richard II can be counted every bit as mature and political as Henry V, just as A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet are as poetic as As You Like It.

A history of four masterpieces and of so much more, it produces a life of Shakespeare, about whom so little is known, through a ingenious fusion of history, politics, and literary criticism. Listed among the best books of the year in The Guardian, The Economist, The Financial Times, The Irish Times, The Evening Standard, The Sunday Times, The New Statesman, The Observer, The Telegraph, and The National Post (Canada), The New Zealand Listener, Radio New Zealand, The Courier Mail (Australia), Barnes and Noble. Em parte, o livro “1599” é uma redescoberta dos mundos que moldaram o desenvolvimento do poeta e que, em sua maturidade, estavam se perdendo – o sangrento passado católico; a paisagem desmatada de Arden; a cultura cavalheiresca moribunda. Albania, Algeria, American Samoa, Andorra, Angola, Anguilla, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Armenia, Aruba, Australia, Bahamas, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Botswana, Brazil, British Virgin Islands, Brunei Darussalam, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Cayman Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, China, Colombia, Comoros, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti, Dominica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Finland, France, French Guiana, French Polynesia, Gabon Republic, Gambia, Ghana, Gibraltar, Greece, Greenland, Grenada, Guadeloupe, Guam, Guatemala, Guernsey, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Jersey, Jordan, Kenya, Kiribati, Kuwait, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macau, Macedonia, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Malta, Marshall Islands, Martinique, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Micronesia, Moldova, Monaco, Mongolia, Montenegro, Montserrat, Morocco, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Niger, Niue, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Papua New Guinea, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of Croatia, Republic of the Congo, Reunion, Romania, Saint Helena, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Serbia, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Solomon Islands, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Tajikistan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tonga, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Turks and Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Vatican City State, Venezuela, Virgin Islands (U. But he did not escape unscathed: Jonson was branded with a “T” for Tyburn, Elizabethan London's site of execution, on his thumb.

From the deliciously vivid first pages, in which a group of armed theatricals make a dash through the snow in the dead of night to filch a theatre's timber frame and transfer it to the site of the Globe, Shapiro weaves a tantalising narrative out of what could have been a fairly dry piece of scholarship. A Year in the Life of William Shakespeareby James Shapiro is tonight, Thursday 27 April, named winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction ‘Winner of Winners’ Award. A kind of dip into the English collective unconscious, marked as it was by external and internal turmoil.

Neither the popular Richard the Second nor the First Part of Henry the Fourth were published again during Elizabeth's lifetime. Amidst all this, John Hayward’s history of Henry IV seems to have shaken Shakespeare, along with a new translation of Tacitus and his modulation of on-and-off-again republican philosophy, which could lead to censorship problems if he were to build such thinking into Julius Caesar, due to be up first at the Globe in late summer. Para quem quer ler apenas um bom livro e assistir um filme sobre a vida de Shakespeare recomendo: “Nothing like the sun” de Anthony Burgess e “Shakespeare in love”, vencedor de Oscar. After reading this book, any reader will understand him better, and will be able to enjoy him much more. The Elizabethan theater had replaced some of the lost fabric of Catholic life, the liturgical underpinnings of communal life prior to the Reformation, and the Queen followed a leery course of not arousing one side or the other—Catholic or Protestant—which Shakespeare played up to in one play after another, always inscrutable, not advocating for one side or the other.There was little touring theater, few books, hardly any musical instruments, no paintings to speak of, the aesthetic monotony broken only by painted cloths that adorned interiors (like the eight that had hung in Shakespeare's mother's home in Wilmcote). If you have any interest in Shakespeare at all, you won't be able to put it down…for my money, A Year in the Life really shows how books like this ought to be written. A fascinating and entirely believable portrait of a talented workaholic … Shapiro’s informed enthusiasm and energetic prose is addictive. Given the intimate working relationships between playwrights (and between playwrights and players), personality clashes were inevitable. Shapiro convincingly demonstrates that 'it is no more possible to talk about Shakespeare's plays independently of his age than it is to grasp what his society went through without the benefit of Shakespeare's insights'.