![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Year of Lear picks up seven years later with Elizabeth’s successor, King James I, weathering increasingly frightening threats to his person, his people, and his kingdom. In that year, Queen Elizabeth was fending off the threat of a second Spanish Armada, attempting to suppress a rebellion in Ireland, and addressing (or more often avoiding) the issue of succession. His previous micro-biography of Shakespeare, A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, covered the composition of Henry V, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and Hamlet. Shapiro is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University and a member of the Folger Board of Governors. Author James Shapiro’s new book The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606considers the period when the playwright wrote three of his greatest tragedies, King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.ĭr. ![]()
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