1606 : Shakespeare and the Year of LearAuthor: Shapiro, James England Published on 7 April 2016 by Faber & Faber in the United Kingdom. Paperback 448 pages 195 x 126 x 30 370g 1606: William Shakespeare and the Year of Lear traces Shakespeare's life and times from the autumn of 1605, when he took an old and anonymous Elizabethan play, The Chronicle History of King Leir, and transformed it into his most searing tragedy, King Lear. 1606 proved to be an especially grim year for England, which

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