6/12/2023 0 Comments Work by william shakespeare![]() ![]() ![]() When I reviewed the book I called it "an unforgettable illumination of a crucial moment in the life of our greatest writer". Shapiro's chosen date was inspired: the annus mirabilis in which Shakespeare wrote Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar and As You Like It, back to back, and probably completed a first draft of Hamlet, not to mention revising several sonnets. 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare was one of those books that seems so obvious it's amazing no one had thought of it before. But the policy page on its website ( ) specifically states that the society is not dedicated to proving that Marlowe was the true author of the Shakespeare canon.įive years ago, James Shapiro, an American academic teaching at Columbia university in New York took the international world of Shakespeare by storm with a brilliant idea, an intimate history of the playwright through the prism of a single year. ![]()
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