The final act of Mr ShakespeareRobert Winder

The final act of Mr Shakespeare

Name: The final act of Mr Shakespeare
ISBN: 9780349122502

Robert Winder · 2011

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In the spring of 1613 Mr William Shakespeare, a gentleman farmer in Warwickshire, returns to London. It is a ceremonial visit; he has no further theatrical ambition. But the city is still reeling from the terrorist panic of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, and fate soon forces him to take up his pen again. It was never possible to write about Henry VII while his granddaughter Elizabeth was Queen, but now he must. It is a perilous enterprise: King James I's spies are everywhere ...