By Germaine Greer for NewStatesman, 6 October 2015 Having had a great success in 2005 with 1599: a Year in the Life of William Shakespeare, James Shapiro has provided his many admirers with an account of another year, 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear. Literary biography is a tricky genre, and not made more straightforward by slicing it into year-long […]
By Cahal Milmo for The Independent, 5 October 2015 It is the sort of dilemma that the Bard himself might have relished. Whether to sell part of the family seat to protect what remains of it or refuse and risk future damage to a treasured corner of “this other Eden”. Campaigners have expressed disappointment at a decision by the charity in charge […]
By Dalya Alberge for The Guardian, 27 September 2015 The story of how William Shakespeare’s father slipped from wealth to bankruptcy, leaving his impoverished son to struggle to establish himself as a poet and actor before making his own wealth in the London theatre, has long been an established part of the mythology surrounding the playwright. But a new study of […]
By James Shapiro for The Guardian, 24 September 2015 In late July 1606, in the midst of a theatrical season that included what may well be the finest group of new plays ever staged – Shakespeare’s King Lear and Macbeth, Ben Jonson’s Volpone, and Thomas Middleton’s The Revenger’s Tragedy– Shakespeare’s company, the King’s Men, lowered their flag at the Globe theatre and locked their playhouse doors. Plague had returned. […]
Boris Johnson ‘signs £500k book deal’ to write Shakespeare biography By Daisy Wyatt for The Independent, 26 July 2015 London Mayor and recently elected MP for Uxbridge and South Ruislip Boris Johnson has signed a £500,000 book deal to write a biography about Shakespeare. Johnson, whose best-selling biography of Churchill was lauded by critics last year, will write the book in time for […]
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