{"product_id":"a-year-in-the-life-of-william-shakespeare-1599-9780060088743","title":"A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Baillie Gifford Prize's 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat accounts for Shakespeare's transformation from talented poet and playwright to one of the greatest writers who ever lived? In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, \"succeed[ing] where others have fallen short.\" (\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e) \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: \u003cem\u003eHenry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, \u003c\/em\u003e and, most remarkably, \u003cem\u003eHamlet\u003c\/em\u003e; Elizabethans sent off an army to crush an Irish rebellion, weathered an Armada threat from Spain, gambled on a fledgling East India Company, and waited to see who would succeed their aging and childless queen.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Shapiro illuminates both Shakespeare's staggering achievement and what Elizabethans experienced in the course of 1599, bringing together the news and the intrigue of the times with a wonderful evocation of how Shakespeare worked as an actor, businessman, and playwright. The result is an exceptionally immediate and gripping account of an inspiring moment in history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eShapiro, James:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eJames Shapiro, aprofessor at Columbia University in New York, is the author of \u003cem\u003eRival Playwrights, Shakespeare and the Jews, \u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOberammergau\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Perennial","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50717666738450,"sku":"9780060088743","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_93f402c5-13e5-497d-8a60-c6b97bab276b.jpg?v=1734623235","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-year-in-the-life-of-william-shakespeare-1599-9780060088743","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}