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Nicholl Charles

The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street

Penguin Allen Lane 2007,

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Author
Nicholl Charles
Publishers
Penguin Allen Lane 2007
Keyword
Shakespeare
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
No
State of preservation
Good
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

8vo, hardcover. missing jacket, but book in very good condition. no marks. In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster ñ it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine ñ a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry ñ but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatistís famously obscure life-story. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating episode in Shakespeareís life. Marshalling evidence from a wide variety of sources, including previously unknown documentary material on the Mountjoys, he conjures up a detailed and compelling description of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked, and in which he wrote such plays as Othello, Measure for Measure and King Lear.
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