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100	1		_aShapiro, James
245	1	4	_a1606: _bWilliam Shakespeare and the year of lear _cJames Shapiro.
260			_aLondon : _bFaber and Faber, _c©2015.
300			_axi, 423 p. : _bill., maps ; _c25 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"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"--
520			_a"Pre-eminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro shows how the tumultuous events in England in 1606 affected Shakespeare and influenced three of his greatest tragedies written that year - King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra"--
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, William
600	1	0	_aShakespeare, William, _d1564-1616 _xCriticism and interpretation.
650		0	_aLiterature and society _zEngland _xHistory _y17th century.
650		0	_aEnglish drama _y17th century _xHistory and criticism.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Shakespeare. _2bisacsh
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh. _2bisacsh
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