Charles Nicholl

The Lodger

Shakespeare on Silver Street

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In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster - it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry - but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life-story. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating episode in Shakespeare's 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 h… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-14-191187-8
EAN: 9780141911878
Produktnummer: 17831428
Verlag: Penguin Books Ltd
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
Seitenangabe: 400 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 3'572 KB
Abbildungen: 1 x 16 pp b/w inset

Über den Autor

Charles Nicholl is a historian, biographer and travel writer. His books include The Reckoning (winner of the James Tait Black prize for biography and the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger award for non-fiction), A Cup of News: the life of Thomas Nashe, Shakespeare and his contemporaries (Natural Portrait Gallery insights series) and Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (winner of the Hawthornden Prize). His most recent book was the acclaimed biography, Leonardo da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind, which has been published in 17 languages. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and has lectured in Britain, Italy and the United States.