1606, Paperback/James Shapiro

Following the biographical style of 1599, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize and a top ten bestseller, 1606 concerns the year Shakespeare transformed an old and anonymous Elizabethan play into his most searing tragedy. It was a grim year for England in the aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot, and with an outbreak of plague, but an exceptional one for Shakespeare himself. Now in paperback.