Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time
| Log in
  1. Follow us on Facebook
  2. Follow us on Instagram
  3. Follow us on Bluesky
  4. Follow us on Goodreads
  5. RSS Feeds

  • Home
  • About
    • Getting Started in CBR18
    • Rules of Respect
    • Cannon Book Club
    • Diversions
    • Fan Mail
    • Holiday Book Exchange
    • Book Bingo Reading Challenge
    • Participation Badges
    • AlabamaPink
    • About Cannonball Read
  • Our Team
    • The CBR Team
    • Leaderboard
    • Recent Comments
    • Participant Interviews
    • Cannonballer Location Maps
    • Our Volunteers
    • Meet MsWas
  • Categories
    • Review Genres
    • Tags
    • Star Ratings
    • Featured Review Archive
  • Fight Cancer
    • How We Fight Cancer
    • Donate
    • CBR Merchandise
  • FAQ
  • Contact
    • Contact Form
    • 2026 Registration
    • Suggest a Review
    • Newsletter Sign Up
    • Newsletter Archive
    • Social Media

Join the CBR18 Book Bingo Reading Challenge—Now Underway!   

“Thou art a boil, A plague-sore, an embossed carbuncle, In my corrupted blood.”

The Year of Lear: Shakespeare in 1606 by James Shapiro

April 16, 2020 by andtheIToldYouSos 10 Comments

The bile, the fire, the vitriol; do we understand now what King Lear meant when he assaulted his eldest daughter with these words? I certainly did not. I took it as an insult, sure, but I did not know the deeper meaning. Recently, I was driving to work and I heard James Shapiro on NPR. He was a guest because, despite the fact that he was promoting his latest title, a lot of people have been making a lot of headway with the statement that […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: 16th Century England, 17th century England, Antony and Cleopatra, jacobian england, Jacobian theater, James Shapiro, King Lear, Literature, Macbeth, Shakespeare, the plague, theater history, Tudor England

andtheIToldYouSos's CBR12 Review No:33 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir, History, Non-Fiction · Tags: 16th Century England, 17th century England, Antony and Cleopatra, jacobian england, Jacobian theater, James Shapiro, King Lear, Literature, Macbeth, Shakespeare, the plague, theater history, Tudor England ·
Rating:
· 10 Comments


Recent Comments

  • Dome'Loki
    on Here There Be Dragons (it’s Steve)
    The next book in the Spellshop series is Sea of Charms. And it's coming out next week Tuesday! I'm glad...
  • Jen K
    on How far would you go to change history?
    My dad really liked this one (or maybe the mini series) but there was something about this one when I...
  • Jen K
    on This would have been better as a YA fantasy
    I have read and liked one or two of her other novels (Girl in Translation or lost in translation?) so...
  • Kit Moonstar
    on CBR Diversion – Bingo – “One”
    She's definitely one of my favorite authors.
  • MsWas
    on A Dictionary Into Which a Left-Handed Monkey Wrench Has Been Thrown
    Ooh I'll have to look for that one - in paperback!
See More Recent Comments »

Support Our Mission

  • Support Our Mission, Donate Today!
  • FAQ
  • Shop
  • Volunteers
  • Leaderboard
  • AlabamaPink
  • Contact

Help Our Mission

You can donate to CBR via:

  1. PayPal
  2. Venmo

The reviews and comments posted on this site reflect the opinions of individual posters and do not reflect the views of Cannonball Read.

© 2026 Cannonball Read Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) | Log in