Summary
"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 arr... Full description
- Prologue : January 5, 1606
- The King's Man
- Division of the Kingdoms
- From Leir to Lear
- Possession
- The Letter
- Massing Relics
- Remember, Remember
- Hymenaei
- Equivocation
- Another Hell above the Ground
- The King's Evil
- Unfinished Business
- Queen of Sheba
- Plague
- Epilogue : December 26, 1606.