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Just the previous September, Ben Jonson had quarreled with Gabriel Spencer, a rising star (and shareholder) in the Admiral's Men, and in the ensuing duel near the Curtain killed him. He reviews regularly in The New York Times Book Review, was a visiting scholar at the New Globe Theatre and has lectured on Shakespeare and his times all over the world. These details, in the chapter which he devotes to Shakespeare himself, are the most riveting part of his book….In this gripping account, James Shapiro sets out to answer this question, "succeed[ing] where others have fallen short. After all, it does matter who wrote Shakespeare, because the case Shapiro makes for him doubles as a defence of art. The confusion caused by the Catholic-Protestant switchover even comes out in a supposedly 'Pagan' play such as Julius Caesar. Before the end of the year, he had completed Henry V, written Julius Caesar and As You Like It in quick succession, and produced the first draft of his greatest play, Hamlet.

But thanks to Shapiro's exemplary work, we can see just how much the personalities and issues of his time did affect the plays, and how Elizabethan audiences would have smiled at allusions lost on their modern counterparts. Packed with anecdotal and historical evidence, Shapiro's book will appeal both to Shakespearean scholars and novices alike. Para quem quer ler apenas um bom livro e assistir um filme sobre a vida de Shakespeare recomendo: “Nothing like the sun” de Anthony Burgess e “Shakespeare in love”, vencedor de Oscar.The list included, first and foremost, the works of satirists: Joseph Hall's Biting Satires and Virgidemiarum, John Marston's The Metamorphosis of Pigmalion's Image and The Scourge of Villany, Everard Giulpin's Skialatheia, Thomas Middleton's Micro-cynicon: Six Snarling Satires, Thomas Cutwode's Caltha Poetarum, and John Davies's Epigrams, which was bound with the Elegies of Christopher Marlowe, were all destroyed. And then Shapiro shows how these public concerns were reflected in the plays that Shakespeare wrote that year.