The Year of Lear

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Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.“The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review).

In the years leading up toShakespeare’s great productivity had by: 6. “The Year of Lear” is not an academic book—no aspiring assistant professor shooting for tenure would want to hang his career prospects on it as a first or even second book. It isn’t about how the academy views Shakespeare’s late works.

Shapiro doesn’t attack scholarly rivals nor does he break new ground analyzing the plays/5. Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.“The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review).

In the years leading up toShakespeare’s great productivity had ed on: Octo   “The Year of Lear” is irresistible — a banquet of wisdom about the small and dramatic world that a year-old playwright is living in, on the one hand, and a convincing and inspiring Author: Jane Smiley.

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"The Year of Lear is irresistible--a banquet of wisdom" (The New York Times Book Review). In the years leading up toShakespeare's great productivity had ebbed. 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 /5(K).

Shakespeare and the Year of Lear is a meticulous narrative of a momentous year in the life of the playwright and a masterpiece of intelligent literary criticism. (Colm Tóibín Guardian) A book for anyone interested in history, or literature, or in the creation of the greatest play ever written/5().

J ames Shapiro’s A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare was published to great acclaim 10 years ago. It opened with an atmospheric prologue. ""The Year of Lear" is a book for anyone interested in history, or literature, or in the creation of the greatest play ever written."--Richard Eyre, former director of the National Theatre (London) "The Year of Lear" is a masterpiece, weaving together /5(96).

Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in by James Shapiro (Paperback / softback, ) at the best online prices at eBay. Contested Year is an anthology of critical reviews of James Shapiro's book The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in It is also a side-by-side companion meant to be read and consulted as a supplement to The Year of Lear.

In Octoberfanfares of acclaim greeted The Year of Lear's none of the reviewers seemed to notice its flaws/5(3). Edward Lear (12 MayHolloway – 29 JanuarySanremo) was an English artist, illustrator, musician, author and poet, now known mostly for his literary nonsense in poetry and prose and especially his limericks, a form he popularised.

His principal areas of work as an artist were threefold: as a draughtsman employed to illustrate birds and animals; making coloured drawings during his. Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.“The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review).

In the years leading up toShakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed/5(97). The Year of Lear is a book for anyone interested in history, or literature, or in the creation of the greatest play ever written.

Richard Eyre "The Shakespeare Shapiro painstakingly and subtly presents here is a virtuoso remix artist, a textual sponge, a magpie, a master-orchestrator of the Zeitgeist All the world, as this terrifically 3/5(1). Inrising actor Antony Sher played the Fool to Michael Gambon’s King in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of King Lear.

Shortly after, he came back to Stratford to play Richard III. What drew you to the specific year of as the subject of your latest undertaking. JS: I began researching The Year of Lear a decade ago, shortly after publishing a book about an earlier year in Shakespeare’s life, That book had focused exclusively on Shakespeare’s life and work towards the end of Queen Elizabeth’s long reign.

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. Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year—King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.“The Year of Lear is irresistible—a banquet of wisdom” (The New York Times Book Review).

In the years leading up toShakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. 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. Author of the new book, "The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in " Also author of "Contested Will" and "" Editor, "Shakespeare in America." From Tom’s Reading List.

“The Year of Lear” touches on much else in its survey ofincluding Shakespeare’s testimony in a civil suit, sermons by Lancelot Andrewes and other influential preachers, and even King.

James Shapiro’s insightful new book, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare inperforms a kind of archaeological excavation of the three plays Shakespeare wrote in this year – "King Lear.[The book] is irresistible--a banquet of wisdom.", James Shapiro's insightful new book, The Year of Lear: Shakespeare inperforms 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.