1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear by James Shapiro

1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear

James Shapiro

423 pages first pub 2015 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative slow-paced
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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, ...

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