This rich and colorful historical novel is based on the life of William Shakespeare and his younger brother Edmund. It is filled with exciting episodes out of the public events of the Elizabethan period as well as out of the reconstructed lives of its many characters, such as Ben Jonson, Essex, and Queen Elizabeth herself. The common people are also brought to life, and the streets of London and Stratford-on-Avon become, for the reader, as real as his own neighborhood. The world of the Elizabethan court, of the Shakespearean theater, of grand passion and royal debauchery - all are evoked with great clarity and delight in this novel.
This rich and colorful historical novel is based on the life of William Shakespeare and his younger brother Edmund. It is filled with exciting episodes out of the public events of the Elizabethan period as well as out of the reconstructed lives of its many characters, such as Ben Jonson, Essex, and Queen Elizabeth herself. The common people are also brought to life, and the streets of London and Stratford-on-Avon become, for the reader, as real as his own neighborhood. The world of the Elizabethan court, of the Shakespearean theater, of grand passion and royal debauchery - all are evoked with great clarity and delight in this novel.