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The Lodger

Shakespeare on Silver Street

Charles Nicholl author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:3rd Jul '08

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The Lodger cover

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