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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... and I, the bastard son of a priest's bastard, conceived in a confessional, born in a graveyard, was one of the best of them. I mean, what better work than Pickleherring? I was a posthumous child. Of my father, I heard.
... and I, the bastard son of a priest's bastard, conceived in a confessional, born in a graveyard, was one of the best of them. I mean, what better work than Pickleherring? I was a posthumous child. Of my father, I heard.
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... mean, I can't remember now all Mr Shakespeare bade me say then. He sat there downing oysters while I recited. Sometimes he said 'Good' and sometimes he said 'Good, boy' and once he said 'Good boy' again and more than once he said ...
... mean, I can't remember now all Mr Shakespeare bade me say then. He sat there downing oysters while I recited. Sometimes he said 'Good' and sometimes he said 'Good, boy' and once he said 'Good boy' again and more than once he said ...
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... mean that a book like this might be said to be long in the making, and to have enjoyed the intercourse of many several begetters. My mind is what Mr Shakespeare said of his Dark Lady. It has been a bay where all men ride, and it has ...
... mean that a book like this might be said to be long in the making, and to have enjoyed the intercourse of many several begetters. My mind is what Mr Shakespeare said of his Dark Lady. It has been a bay where all men ride, and it has ...
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... concerning Mr Shakespeare's gout, and the day that he died. On a small personal note, I owe also to Dr Hall the cure of my scurvy by means of his Scorbutick Beer. Others who assisted my enquiries in pursuit of anécdota in.
... concerning Mr Shakespeare's gout, and the day that he died. On a small personal note, I owe also to Dr Hall the cure of my scurvy by means of his Scorbutick Beer. Others who assisted my enquiries in pursuit of anécdota in.
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... mean to keep you true, madam, which means not opening your legs for that old flame of yours who's up in the house.' His wife holds up her hand in the wind and the rain. 'I swear to you,' she cries, 'by my own hope of heaven, I am ...
... mean to keep you true, madam, which means not opening your legs for that old flame of yours who's up in the house.' His wife holds up her hand in the wind and the rain. 'I swear to you,' she cries, 'by my own hope of heaven, I am ...
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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