The Lodger
Shakespeare on Silver Street
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
Published:3rd Jul '08
Should be back in stock very soon
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 he wrote such plays as Othello, Measure for Measure and KingLear.
ISBN: 9780141023748
Dimensions: 198mm x 129mm x 23mm
Weight: 315g
400 pages