Book Description
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 13,31 MB
Release : 2011-04-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1416541632
Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro explains when and why so many people began to question whether Shakespeare wrote his plays.
Author : Bill Shapiro
Publisher : Running Press Adult
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2018-09-25
Category : Photography
ISBN : 0762462558
With contributions from Cheryl Strayed, Mark Cuban, Ta-Nahesi Coates, Melinda Gates, Joss Whedon, James Patterson, and many more -- this fascinating collection gives us a peek into 150 personal treasures and the secret histories behind them. All of us have that one object that holds deep meaning--something that speaks to our past, that carries a remarkable story. Bestselling author Bill Shapiro collected this sweeping range of stories--he talked to everyone from renowned writers to Shark Tank hosts, from blackjack dealers to teachers, truckers, and nuns, even a reformed counterfeiter--to reveal the often hidden, always surprising lives of objects.
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 50,85 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 0061840904
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize’s 25th Anniversary Winner of Winners award What 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." (Boston Globe) 1599 was an epochal year for Shakespeare and England. During that year, Shakespeare wrote four of his most famous plays: Henry the Fifth, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, and, most remarkably, Hamlet; 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. James 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.
Author : Ben Shapiro
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 16,42 MB
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1682610780
Author : Bill Shapiro
Publisher : Clarkson Potter Publishers
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 14,74 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0307382648
A voyeuristic look at modern romance brings together an assortment of actual love letters, written by a diverse cross section of people, that appear exactly as they were originally written, offering candid insights into how people think about love.
Author : Bill Shapiro
Publisher : Clarkson Potter
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 21,39 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Letters
ISBN : 0307459640
Shapiro presents a colorful panoply of rejection letters--many from famous people including A-Rod, Jimi Hendrix, and Andy Warhol--that when taken together offer humor, insight, and the comfort of shared experience.
Author : James Shapiro
Publisher :
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 39,15 MB
Release : 2016-04-07
Category : English drama
ISBN : 9780571235797
"An intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare's most inspired moments: the year of King Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. 1606, while a very good year for Shakespeare, is a fraught one for England. Plague returns. There is surprising resistance to the new king's desire to turn England and Scotland into a united Britain. And fear and uncertainty sweep the land and expose deep divisions in the aftermath of the failed terrorist attack that came to be known as the Gunpowder Plot. James Shapiro deftly demonstrates how these extraordinary plays responded to the tumultuous events of this year, events that in unexpected ways touched upon Shakespeare's own life ... [and] profoundly changes and enriches our experience of his plays--Publisher's description.
Author : Scholastic Library Publishing
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,77 MB
Release : 2004
Category :
ISBN : 9780717277728
An illustrated encyclopedia with articles on history, literature, art and music, geography, mathematics, science, sports, and other topics. Some articles include activities, games, or experiments.
Author : David Shapiro
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 999 pages
File Size : 48,12 MB
Release : 2001-10-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 1621531112
In this acclaimed art anthology, a prestigious group of artists, critics, and literati offer their incisive reflections on the questions of beauty, past, present, and future, and how it has become a domain of multiple perspectives. Here is Meyer Schapiro’s skeptical argument on perfection . . . contributions from artists as profound as Louise Bourgeois and Agnes Martin . . . and reflections of critics, curators, and philosophers on the problems of beauty and relativism. Readers will find fascinating insights from such art theorists and critics as Dave Hickey, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, Donald Kuspit, Carter Ratcliff, and dozens more.
Author : William E. Shapiro
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 1997-12
Category : North America
ISBN : 9781562945145
This encyclopedia contains nearly 250,000 words and covers topics ranging science, history, and geography to sports, conservation, and show business.