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Ratings: ★★★★★ (4.8/5)
Genre: Literary Criticism / Biography / Shakespeare Studies / History

Review:
1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear is an intimate portrait of one of Shakespeare's most inspired periods. In a fraught year for England – plague, resistance to King James's vision of a united Britain, and the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot – Shakespeare completed a staggering trio of masterpieces: King Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra. James Shapiro immerses readers in Shakespeare's England, showing how tumultuous events touched the playwright's life and shaped his celebrated work. Described by the Observer as ''truly magnificent... a work of genius.'' Essential reading for Shakespeare scholars and literary enthusiasts.