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![]() ![]() ![]() Nothing had actually happened apart from the execution of a few traitors, but the propaganda war had enormous significance. The repercussions of the Gunpowder Plot were still not quite clear. But, as James Shapiro explores in his informative and exciting new book, 1606 was a significant, epoch-defining time that formed the background to two of Shakespeare greatest tragedies, King Lear and Macbeth, as well as Antony and Cleopatra and Timon of Athens. He had been steadily prolific since the early 1590s, but for the first time since 1593 nothing by the Bard had appeared in print. The year 1606 was an odd one for William Shakespeare. ![]()
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