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1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear

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1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear - Shapiro, James
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1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear. 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, which witnessed the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an outbreak of plague. But it turned out to be an exceptional one for Shakespeare, unrivalled at ...

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1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear 2016, Faber & Faber, London

ISBN-13: 9780571235797

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