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Theatre of politics

1606 was not only the year of Lear, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra, but of plague, witchcraft and explosive politics, all vividly captured in James Shapiro’s latest tour de force

  • 1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear

    James Shapiro

    Faber, pp. 423

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