Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/classics/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0003 405368 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/classics/engine/rss.php:0 James Shapiro - Free Library Land Online - Classics https://classics.library.land/ ru James Shapiro - Free Library Land Online - Classics DataLife Engine Shakespeare in a Divided America https://classics.library.land/james-shapiro/579948-shakespeare_in_a_divided_america.html https://classics.library.land/james-shapiro/579948-shakespeare_in_a_divided_america.html Shakespeare in a Divided America
One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year
A New York Times Notable Book
From leading scholar James Shapiro, a timely exploration of what Shakespeare’s plays reveal about our divided land, from Revolutionary times to the present day
The plays of William Shakespeare are rare common ground in the United States. They are read at school by almost every student, staged in theaters across the land, and long valued by conservatives and liberals alike. For well over two centuries, Americans of all stripes—presidents and activists, writers and soldiers—have turned to Shakespeare’s works to explore the nation’s fault lines, including such issues as manifest destiny, race, gender, immigration, and free speech. In a narrative arching across the centuries, from Revolutionary times to the present day, leading scholar James Shapiro traces the unparalleled role of Shakespeare's four-hundred-year-old tragedies...]]> Mon, 03 Feb 2020 16:31:41 +0200 Contested Will https://classics.library.land/james-shapiro/254263-contested_will.html https://classics.library.land/james-shapiro/254263-contested_will.html Contested Will
For two hundred years after William Shakespeare's death, no one thought to argue that somebody else had written his plays. Since then dozens of rival candidates - including The Earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon and Christopher Marlowe - have been proposed as their true author. Contested Will unravels the mystery of when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote the plays (among them such leading writers and artists as Sigmund Freud, Henry James, Mark Twain, Helen Keller, Orson Welles, and Sir Derek Jacobi).Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro's fascinating search for the source of this controversy retraces a path strewn with fabricated documents, calls for trials, false claimants, concealed identity, bald-faced deception and a failure to grasp what could not be imagined. If Contested Will does not end the authorship question once and for all, it will nonetheless irrevocably change the nature of the debate by confronting what's...]]> Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:41:09 +0200 The Year of Lear https://classics.library.land/james-shapiro/261936-the_year_of_lear.html https://classics.library.land/james-shapiro/261936-the_year_of_lear.html The Year of Lear
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...]]> Mon, 18 Nov 1991 18:13:12 +0200 A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare https://classics.library.land/james-shapiro/450787-a_year_in_the_life_of_william_shakespeare.html https://classics.library.land/james-shapiro/450787-a_year_in_the_life_of_william_shakespeare.html A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare
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