The Late Mr. ShakespeareOur guide to the life of the Bard is an actor called Pickleherring, who asserts that as a boy he was an original member of Shakespeare's acting troupe. In an attic above a brothel in Restoration London—a half century after Shakespeare has departed the stage—Pickleherring, now an old man, sits down to write the full story of his former friend, mentor, and master. Fond, faithful Pickleherring has forgotten nothing over the years, and using sources both firsthand and far-fetched he means to set the record straight. Was Shakespeare ever actually "in love"? Did he write his own plays? Who was the Dark Lady of the Sonnets? Brilliantly in tune with today's Shakespeare renaissance, Robert Nye gives us an outrageous, language-loving, and edifying romp through the life and times of the greatest writer who ever lived. Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Arcade, Yucca, and Good Books imprints, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction—novels, novellas, political and medical thrillers, comedy, satire, historical fiction, romance, erotic and love stories, mystery, classic literature, folklore and mythology, literary classics including Shakespeare, Dumas, Wilde, Cather, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home. |
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... XLII XLIII XLIV XLV Flute The speech that Shakespeare made when he killed a calf In which there is a death, and a birth, and an earthquake Pickleherring's peep-hole XLVI About silk stockings XLVII How Shakespeare went to teach.
... XLII XLIII XLIV XLV Flute The speech that Shakespeare made when he killed a calf In which there is a death, and a birth, and an earthquake Pickleherring's peep-hole XLVI About silk stockings XLVII How Shakespeare went to teach.
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... Deaths, etc. 'Mrs Lines and Mr Barkworth' Shakespeare in Scotland & other witchcrafts About Comfort Ballantine In which Pickleherring plays Cleopatra at the house in St John Street Tom o' Bedlam's Song In which William Shakespeare ...
... Deaths, etc. 'Mrs Lines and Mr Barkworth' Shakespeare in Scotland & other witchcrafts About Comfort Ballantine In which Pickleherring plays Cleopatra at the house in St John Street Tom o' Bedlam's Song In which William Shakespeare ...
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... Death of King John. That's why he asked me to say I am afraid, and yet I'll venture it. It is what that poor boy says before he kills himself by jumping from the battlements of the castle where he is confined. When I jumped down off the ...
... Death of King John. That's why he asked me to say I am afraid, and yet I'll venture it. It is what that poor boy says before he kills himself by jumping from the battlements of the castle where he is confined. When I jumped down off the ...
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... death-bed. He never so much as walked in them anywhere. So it might be that my lugged boots were what caught Mr Shakespeare's eye. But then (you ask me), what has this to do with that other boy Arthur in King John? Permit me to tell you ...
... death-bed. He never so much as walked in them anywhere. So it might be that my lugged boots were what caught Mr Shakespeare's eye. But then (you ask me), what has this to do with that other boy Arthur in King John? Permit me to tell you ...
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... death of Mr James Burbage, all of whom gave me something of our Shakespeare that was their own: Mr Richard Burbage (old James B's younger son, and a Protean actor - the first Hamlet, the first Othello, the first Lear); Mr Thomas Pope ...
... death of Mr James Burbage, all of whom gave me something of our Shakespeare that was their own: Mr Richard Burbage (old James B's younger son, and a Protean actor - the first Hamlet, the first Othello, the first Lear); Mr Thomas Pope ...
Contents
his first word the otters | |
Was John Shakespeare John Falstaff? | |
How Shakespeares mother played with | |
What this book is doing | |
Shakespeare breeches | |
Pickleherrings room in which he is writing this book | |
The Man in the Moon or Pickleherring in praise of country history | |
Positively the last word about whittawers | |
What if Queen Elizabeth was Shakespeares mother? | |
The Shakespeare Arms | |
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