For Shakespeare it ushers in a year of thrilling theatrical achievements: Henry V, Julius Caesar and As You Like It are performed Hamlet takes shape on paper. This is the famous scene of repossession, in which members of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men – Shakespeare’s company – conclude a long dispute with their landlord by dismantling the old playhouse called the Theatre and carting off its timbers to build a new venue in Southwark, the Globe. It opened with an atmospheric prologue – a freezing December morning in 1598 a dozen heavily armed men approaching a disused building in Shoreditch, east London. J ames Shapiro’s 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare was published to great acclaim 10 years ago.
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