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• W167040005 abstract "Perspectives on and A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: 1599, James Shapiro, xxiv + 429. London and New York: HarperCollins, 2005. Pp. xxiv + 429. Cloth $27.95. Paperback: New York: Harper Perennial, 2006, $14.95. Reviewer: William B. Long James Shapiro's A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare: [British title: 1599: A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare] is not a study and should not be confused with one. Unfortunately, this volume is basically a house of cards. From a distance, the edifice is interesting and even pleasing. But a push here and there collapses the structure. Incorrect facts and unsupportable suppositions do not provide firm bases for supporting Shapiro's contentions. He gets off to a bad start in the Preface where he reveals to the naive and unlearned but hopefully awed and duly impressed readers that: In search of answers I was fortunate to to the archives where the literary treasures of Elizabethan England been preserved-especially the Folger Library in Washington, DC, the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the British Library (at both its old and new London addresses) (xxii). How is this supposed to set Shapiro off from the sea of readers who also used these magnificent collections? Any qualified scholar can have access to these libraries and thousands upon thousands have. Particularly amusing is Shapiro's need to tell the masses that he has used British Library both its old and new addresses. Is this wonderful and so distinctive and unusual revelation supposed to make what he says more trustworthy? Will it overwhelm any doubts that might surface? Albeit written by an English professor at a leading research university, this is basically just another entry in the seemingly endless parade of biographies of chasing after the seemingly endless flow of cash spent for such volumes and clearly aimed at that nebulous, much-sought-after although much-abused creature: the general reader. Even the title itself follows a recently popular pattern: an eye-catching date followed by the rest of the title that explains the subject matter of the book. Andrew Bridgeford' s 1066: Hidden History in the Bayeaux Tapestry, Gavin Menzies's 1421: Year China Discovered America, and Charles C. Mann's 1491: New Revelations of the Americas before Columbus are similarly titled works, brought out by trade houses, that also pursue the perhaps not so elusive general reader. Choosing a title, of course, is a problem: how to attract the maximum number of buyers while appearing to be scholarly but without seeming to court the hoi polloi. Thus a title more closely conforming to the subject matter of the book, such as The Intellectual and Artistic Development of William in His Social and Political Contexts with Special Reference to the Year 1599 would seem to gather dust even as it is read. Similarly, something along the line of Shakespeare Confronts the Perils of '99 would slide much too far the other way. There is, however, one glaring difference between this group of datetitled studies and 1599; unfortunately in sharp contrast to these others, Shapiro's volume contains neither footnotes nor endnotes. If this decision was the publisher's, it is both financially and intellectually indefensible. If this decision was the author's, it is unprofessional and reprehensible. reader, yes, even that shaggy beast of a general reader, deserves to know exactly where an author is getting his/her quotations and other information. How an author can defend his choices is paramount in any historical study. If were a novel, such standards need not be invoked. Shapiro attempts to evade the problem by issuing a global qualification about his use of sources: [r]ather than awkwardly littering the pages . . . with words such as 'perhaps' . . . [or] . . . 'probably,' he passes off as assurance that Readers interested in the historical sources on which I rely will find them in the bibliographical essay at the end of the book (xxiii). …" @default.
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