A review by peregrinetx_90
A Época de Shakespeare by Frank Kermode

5.0

I found this a very satisfying little book. It takes a very panoramic look at the late Elizabethan/ Early Jacobean era using the progress of the theater and Shakespeare's company in its iterations as a focusing lens for the time. I've read the biographical stuff, and a good bit of the peripheral history of his contemporaries and incidental characters in his life, the career history, and of course, the popular critical stuff, and "The Shakespeare Wars" but Kermode supplies a missing element I found. It is a sweeping, albeit, brief, tie to the history of the realm and the development of the theater in England, and of The Globe and the Blackfriars theater, in particular, that harmonizes all the rest.