1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear [Audiobook] download free by James Shapiro
- Listen audiobook: 1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear
- Author: James Shapiro
- Release date: 2016/2/1
- Publisher: FABER & FABER
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Poetry and Drama
- ISBN: 9780571235797
- Rating: 7.71 of 10
- Votes: 783
- Review by: Elaine Eddy
- Review rating: 7.75 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/7
- Duration: 5H30M57S in 256 kbps (89.6 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-11
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: WMA, MPEG-4 ALS, FLAC, MPEG4, MP3, WAV, MPEG-4 SLS (compression LZMA, CBZ, CPIO, AZW, ZIP, RAR, TAR)
- Total pages original book: 448
- Includes a PDF summary of 35 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M20S (7 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: 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 identifying the fault-lines of his cultural moment, who before the year was out went on to complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke directly to these fraught times: Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra.Following the biographical style of 1599, a way of thinking and writing that Shapiro has made his own, 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear promises to be one of the most significant and accessible works on Shakespeare in the decade to come
- Other categories, genre or collection: British & Irish History, Literary Studies: Plays & Playwrights, Literary Studies: C 1500 To C 1800, Early Modern History: C 1450/1500 To C 1700, Shakespeare Studies & Criticism
- Download servers: OpenDrive, TusFiles, MEGA, Dropbox, BitShare, 4Shared, Google Drive. Compressed in LZMA, CBZ, CPIO, AZW, ZIP, RAR, TAR
- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 13.92 USD
- Dimensions: 129x198x27mm
- Weight: 364g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: London, United Kingdom
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