![]() ![]() cannot be recovered”-but Shapiro convincingly demonstrates how closely contemporary events are reflected in the plays. It’s an inherently fraught task-“I’m painfully aware that many of the things I’d like to know about him. Shapiro goes on to trace the Shakespearean implications of a year that included the trial (and execution) of Guy Fawkes for the Gunpowder Plot, plague, European royals visiting England, and family drama. ![]() He starts by acknowledging that writers, including Shapiro himself, have traditionally treated Shakespeare as an Elizabethan playwright instead of a Jacobean one, though some of his greatest plays are from the latter era. Shakespeare expert Shapiro ( Contested Will) delivers a fascinating account of the events of 1606 and how they may have influenced three tragedies the Bard is thought to have written that year or soon afterwards. ![]()
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