{"product_id":"1606-by-james-shapiro-9780571235797","title":"1606","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear\u003c\/em\u003e traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, \u003cem\u003eThe Chronicle History of King Leir,\u003c\/em\u003e and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, \u003cem\u003eKing Lear\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe year 1606 proved to be an especially grim period for England, witnessing the bloody aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, divisions over the Union of England and Scotland, and an outbreak of plague. However, it turned out to be an exceptional year for Shakespeare. Unrivalled at identifying the fault-lines of his cultural moment, he went on to complete two other great Jacobean tragedies that spoke directly to these fraught times: \u003cem\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAntony and Cleopatra\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing the biographical style of \u003cem\u003e1599\u003c\/em\u003e, a way of thinking and writing that Shapiro has made his own, \u003cem\u003e1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear\u003c\/em\u003e promises to be one of the most significant and accessible works on Shakespeare in the decade to come.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47595389583596,"sku":"9780571235797","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780571235797-1606.jpg?v=1777895684","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/1606-by-james-shapiro-9780571235797","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}