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Specifiche dell'oggetto
- Condizione
- Publication Date
- 2015-10-06
- Pages
- 384
- ISBN
- 9781416541646
Informazioni su questo prodotto
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
1416541640
ISBN-13
9781416541646
eBay Product ID (ePID)
210447908
Product Key Features
Book Title
Year of Lear : Shakespeare in 1606
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Drama, Shakespeare, General, Literary, European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
23.2 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-031731
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
The Year of Lear is a masterpiece, weaving together brilliant historical insight with acute literary analysis. James Shapiro is one of our great Shakespearean scholars, but he is also a master storyteller. . . . This book belongs on the very short shelf of required Shakespearean texts. Anyone who wonders whether Shakespeare still matters to us will find a resounding 'yes' in The Year of Lear ., James Shapiro [is] the liveliest and most accessible of Bardologists. . . . The book is crammed with stimulating research that again and again produces startling connections. . . . It is to be hoped that Mr. Shapiro might be persuaded to write a book for every year of Shakespeare's life: Then we might finally find ourselves face to face with the Sphinx of English literature., The temptation for someone reviewing a readable and revelatory work like The Year of Lear is to babble on about the amazing secrets its author has uncovered. . . . [The book] is irresistible-a banquet of wisdom.", A fascinating account of the events of 1606 and how they may have influenced three tragedies the Bard is thought to have written that year or soon afterwards. . . . Shapiro is as compelling when documenting historical events as when analyzing Shakespeare's text, and his sizable bibliographic essay provides ample fodder for readers wanting to dive deeper into his research., James Shapiro's particular gift as a literary historian is to combine great good sense with daring imaginative reach-so that as we read his pages, we simultaneously look down into the workings of Shakespeare's mind, and around him at the landscape of his tumultuous times., While many contemporary literary scholars are devoted to deconstructing literature, and many more to only the narrowest lines of inquiry, Shapiro has the knack of piecing together those few scraps and fragments into a coherent -- and persuasive -- narrative of a writer at work at a specific place and time. . . . A remarkable, completely fresh look at how literature, and history, come to be., Shakespearean scholar Shapiro links the tumultuous events of 1605 and 1606 to three of the Bard's greatest works. . . . Shapiro's discoveries of long-lost sources and missed connections make this a fascinating tale. His well-written, scholarly exploration will stand as an influential work that is a joy to read., No one writes about Shakespeare as Jim Shapiro does; it's so immediate and alive. . . . His passion for Shakespeare, his excitement and pure joy infect everyone he comes in contact with and absolutely come through in each of his books., In a difficult year for England, Shapiro recognizes a fruitful time for the country's greatest playwright. . . . An impressively fine-grained Shakespearean inquiry., The temptation for someone reviewing a readable and revelatory work like The Year of Lear is to babble on about the amazing secrets its author has uncovered. . . . [The book] is irresistible--a banquet of wisdom.", In The Year of Lear, Shapiro takes a closer look at the political and social turmoil that contributed to the creation of three supreme masterpieces. . . . Exciting and sometimes revelatory., Like other Shapiro works, [ The Year of Lear ] is a brilliant, acessible fusion of meticulously researched historical narrative and keen-eyed literary criticism., James Shapiro's particular gift as a literary historian is to combine great good sense with daring imaginative reach--so that as we read his pages, we simultaneously look down into the workings of Shakespeare's mind, and around him at the landscape of his tumultuous times., Shapiro effectively shows how the beliefs, fears, and politics of Shakespeare's day were reflected in his plays. Highly recommended for readers interested in Shakespeare or British History., James Shapiro's insightful new book, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606, performs a kind of archaeological excavation of the three plays Shakespeare wrote in this year - King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra - to reveal the rich matrix of factors that molded their themes and language., The Year of Lear is a book for anyone interested in history, or literature, or in the creation of the greatest play ever written., Shapiro delivers his narrative with colour and reassuring erudition. . . . One of the book's real achievements is how hard it makes you think for yourself about the plays, not only in the context of their times, but in the context of each other., Shapiro has a marvelous ability to use his formidable scholarship, not to pluck out the heart of Shakespeare's mysteries, but to put the beating heart of the contemporary back into them. His great gift is to make the plays seem at once more comprehensible and more staggering., Shapiro demonstrates once again his skill in shaping quantities of research into a brisk and enjoyable narrative.
Dewey Decimal
822.3/3
Synopsis
Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows 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 king and royal family along with the nation's political and religious leadership. The aborted plot renewed anti-Catholic sentiment and laid bare divisions in the kingdom. It was against this background that Shakespeare finished Lear , a play about a divided kingdom, then wrote a tragedy that turned on the murder of a Scottish king, Macbeth . He ended this astonishing year with a third masterpiece no less steeped in current events and concerns: Antony and Cleopatra . The Year of Lear sheds light on these three great tragedies by placing them in the context of their times, while also allowing us greater insight into how Shakespeare was personally touched by such events as a terrible outbreak of plague and growing religious divisions. For anyone interested in Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.
LC Classification Number
PR2983.S467 2015
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