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As you like it is a pastoral comedy by william shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 and first published in the first folio in 1623. William shakespeare was the son of john shakespeare. William shakespeare and the year of lear traces shakespeare s life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous elizabethan play, the chronicle history of king leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, king lear. Boston globe 1599 was an epochal year for shakespeare and england.
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Life of william shakespeare is a biography of william shakespeare by the eminent. If youre a shakespeare fan i would highly recommend this book. In this one exhilarating year we follow what he reads and writes, what he sees, and whom he works with as he. Shapiro fills biographical gaps by delving into evocative details of social, political, and artistic life in london in 1599.
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