About This Book

In a single year of Shakespeare's life, 1599, he wrote Henry V, Julius Caesar and As You Like It and drafted Hamlet, while the Globe was built and England sent an army to Ireland. James Shapiro sets the plays in the world that produced them.

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Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction (Winners)
The Baillie Gifford Prize is the UK’s leading award for non-fiction, open to books in current affairs, history, politics, science, sport, travel, biography and the arts. Founded in 1999 as the Samuel Johnson Prize, its winners run from Antony Beevor’s Stalingrad and Kate Summerscale’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher to Helen Macdonald’s H Is for Hawk and Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain. This list collects the winning books by year.

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