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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... eyes on the dear fellow. He was wearing a copataine hat. You won't know those hats now, if you're under fifty. They were good hats. They wore good hats and they wrote good verse in those days. Your copataine hat was a high-crowned job ...
... eyes on the dear fellow. He was wearing a copataine hat. You won't know those hats now, if you're under fifty. They were good hats. They wore good hats and they wrote good verse in those days. Your copataine hat was a high-crowned job ...
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... eyes ever left the oysters. His voice was soft and gentle when he spoke. But it was the sort of softness that you stop and listen to, like the sound of the theorbo. 'Boy,' he said, suddenly. I nearly fell down off the wall. Instead I ...
... eyes ever left the oysters. His voice was soft and gentle when he spoke. But it was the sort of softness that you stop and listen to, like the sound of the theorbo. 'Boy,' he said, suddenly. I nearly fell down off the wall. Instead I ...
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... eyes as well as his ears. When I finished he nodded and he clapped his hands three times together. It was the first applause I ever had. Then at Mr Shakespeare's instruction I jumped down off the wall. Chapter Two In which Pickleherring ...
... eyes as well as his ears. When I finished he nodded and he clapped his hands three times together. It was the first applause I ever had. Then at Mr Shakespeare's instruction I jumped down off the wall. Chapter Two In which Pickleherring ...
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... left hand, shaking his head a moment as he did so. When he looked at me again his eyes were clear. 'Do you have perfect pitch?' Mr Shakespeare asked me. I told him that I had. (It was a lie.) In which Pickleherring makes strides in a pair.
... left hand, shaking his head a moment as he did so. When he looked at me again his eyes were clear. 'Do you have perfect pitch?' Mr Shakespeare asked me. I told him that I had. (It was a lie.) In which Pickleherring makes strides in a pair.
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... eye. But then (you ask me), what has this to do with that other boy Arthur in King John? Permit me to tell you. Little Hamlet died not long before I first met Mr Shakespeare. I think that Mr Shakespeare was still writing King John in ...
... eye. But then (you ask me), what has this to do with that other boy Arthur in King John? Permit me to tell you. Little Hamlet died not long before I first met Mr Shakespeare. I think that Mr Shakespeare was still writing King John in ...
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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