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The players
a novel of the young Shakespeare
By Cowell, Stephanie
- ISBN
- 978-0-39304-060-9
- Publisher
- New York ; W.W. Norton, c1997.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on April 1, 1997
Concentrating most of its entertaining span on the "apprenticeship" years of William Shakespeare, this novel is based both on fact and on the author's imagination. A few short chapters introduce William as a Stratford lad, then as an unhappily married young man. Soon he has arrived in London and begins to live the kaleidoscopic but poverty-stricken life of a struggling actor and playwright. Among his friends are the writers Christopher Marlowe ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
