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Inside the years leading up to 1606, because the fatality of Queen Elizabeth and the arrival in Great britain of her successor, Ruler Wayne of Scotland, Shakespeare's great output got ebbed, and it may have appeared to some that his prolific genius was something of the past. But that 12 months, at age 42, he found his footing again, finishing a play he previously begun the previous fall months - Ruler Lear - then writing two other great tragedies, Macbeth and Antony and Cleopatra. The 12 months of Lear sheds light on these three great tragedies by placing them in the context of their times while also allowing us increased perception into how Shakespeare was professionally touched by such situations as an awful outbreak of plague and growing spiritual divisions. For anyone considering Shakespeare, this is an indispensable book.

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