Author : Charles Nicholl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Book Synopsis The Lodger by : Charles Nicholl
Download or read book The Lodger written by Charles Nicholl and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'One Mr Shakespeare that laye in the house . . . ' 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. Some eight years earlier, we learn, Shakespeare was lodging in the house of a French immigrant family, the Mountjoys, in the Cripplegate area of London. And while there he was called on by his landlady to 'persuade' the family's former apprentice to marry their daughter. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in Shakespeare's life. In The Lodger, one of the celebrated literary detectives of our day has created something all too rare - a fresh and original book about Shakespeare.