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.
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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.
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