The Late Mr. Shakespeare

Nye, Robert

ISBN 10: 0140289526 / ISBN 13: 9780140289527

Edité par Penguin Books, 2000

A sound copy with only light wear. Overall a solid copy at a great price! N° de réf. du vendeur BOS-S-11d-01673

Synopsis :

From the writer whom Peter Ackroyd called “one of our best living novelists,” comes the most original, exciting, and provocative novel about Shakespeare since Anthony Burgess’s classic Nothing Like the Sun.
 
Our guide to the life of the Bard is an actor by the name of Robert Reynolds, also known as Pickleherring. Pickleherring asserts that as a boy he was not only an original member of Shakespeare’s acting troupe but played the greatest female roles, from Cleopatra to Portia. In an attic above a brothel in Restoration London – a half century after Shakesperare had departed the stage – Pickleherring, now an old man, sits down to write the full story of his former friend, mentor, and master. Ancient he may be, but fond, faithful Pickleherring has forgotten not one jot, and using sources both firsthand and far-fetched, he means to set the record straight. Was Shakespeare actually ever “in love”? Did he write his own plays? Who was the Dark Lady of the sonnets?
 
Brilliantly in tune with today’s Shakespeare renaissance, this is an outrageously bawdy, language-loving, and edifying romp through the life and times of the greatest writer who ever lived.
 
“Engaging . . . Nye’s novel has more of the real Shakespeare in it than the soufflé-light Shakespeare in Love.” –The New York Times Book Review

À propos de l'auteur: Robert Nye's novels include Merlin, The Memoirs of Lord Byron, Mrs. Shakespeare, and the award-winning Falstaff. A poet, journalist, and critic, he lives in Ireland.

Détails bibliographiques

Titre : The Late Mr. Shakespeare
Éditeur : Penguin Books
Date d'édition : 2000
Reliure : Couverture souple
Etat : Good