![]() ![]() It was a memorable year in England as well-a terrorist plot conceived by a small group of Catholic gentry had been uncovered at the last hour. But that year, at age forty-two, he found his footing again, finishing a play he had begun the previous autumn- King Lear-then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. In the years leading up to 1606, Shakespeare’s great productivity had ebbed. “ The Year of Lear is irresistible-a banquet of wisdom” ( The New York Times Book Review ). Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies written that year- King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. ![]()
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