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Published 2015. “Faith, here’s an equivocator, that could swear in both the scales against either scale, who committed treason enough for God’s sake, yet could not equivocate to heaven.” In Macbeth, “1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear” by James Shapiro In the last 2 years I'v...
bookshelves: paper-read, giftee, winter-20152016, tbr-busting-2016, nonfiction, non-fic-feb-2016, published-2005, willsphernalia, lit-crit, biography, britain-england, play-dramatisation, snow-times, reference Recommended to Bettie☯ by: Susanna - Censored by GoodReads Read from August 20, 2014 to...
bookshelves: autumn-2015, nonfiction, willsphernalia, radio-4, published-2015, history, stuarts, execution, lit-crit, religion, plague-disease Recommended to Bettie☯ by: laura Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from October 14 to 16, 2015 http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06gqdwmDescript...
This book started off strong, but dragged a bit in the middle. The author is clearly very good at this subject: the world of William Shakespeare in the year 1599. The book is broken up into sections: spring, summer, fall, and winter. The spring was interesting because of the legal difficulties of Mr...
A pretty good look at how the events in one year - both nationally and personally - might have impacted Shakespeare's writing. Unlike some authors I can think of, Shapiro keeps the guesswork to almost non-existent and is always very clear when he is guessing.I would've liked a look at connection be...
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