1606 was a hugely productive year for Shakespeare, in which he wrote not only King Lear but also Macbeth and Anthony and Cleopatra, two plays Shapiro examines in a similar amount of detail. King Lear fans will certainly not be disappointed by 1606, but there is a lot more to be gained from Shapiro’s work than merely another way of looking at King Lear. 1606 follows Shapiro’s highly acclaimed 1599, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize in 2006, exploring the year in which Shakespeare finished Henry V and wrote both Julius Caesar and As You Like It. Literary historian James Shapiro, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, has therefore chosen wisely in writing a book that examines Shakespeare’s life in the year he wrote it. King Lear has often been hailed as Shakespeare’s greatest play.
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