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Master Rosalind

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Once again the Beattys give their readers a spirited heroine whose ideas are ahead of her time. Rosalind Broome, though a girl of gentle birth in Elizabethan England, refuses to accept traditional training in the ladylike virtues. In fact, she frequently dresses as a boy for protection whenever on a distant errand.

Her story begins when she is kidnapped on such an errand and taken to a den of thieves in London. There she is "baptized" into the fold with a tankard of ale. Fortunately, her failure as a pickpocket leads Rosalind to the alluring and forbidden world of the theater. Maintaining her boy's disguise, she joins a company of players and soon is acting feminine parts in the gentle Will's plays. Eventually, however, her actor's deception is exposed, and as Master Rosalind she is brought to a surprising confrontation with a kindred spirit, the ravaged old Queen herself.

The theater of Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth's court, and the criminal underworld of the sixteenth century are all colorfully re-created here in this exuberant novel of historical adventure.

Language: English

Pages: 221

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: William Morrow & Company

Release: December 31, 1974

ISBN: 0688218199

ISBN 13: 9780688218195

Master Rosalind

3.9/5 ( ratings)

Once again the Beattys give their readers a spirited heroine whose ideas are ahead of her time. Rosalind Broome, though a girl of gentle birth in Elizabethan England, refuses to accept traditional training in the ladylike virtues. In fact, she frequently dresses as a boy for protection whenever on a distant errand.

Her story begins when she is kidnapped on such an errand and taken to a den of thieves in London. There she is "baptized" into the fold with a tankard of ale. Fortunately, her failure as a pickpocket leads Rosalind to the alluring and forbidden world of the theater. Maintaining her boy's disguise, she joins a company of players and soon is acting feminine parts in the gentle Will's plays. Eventually, however, her actor's deception is exposed, and as Master Rosalind she is brought to a surprising confrontation with a kindred spirit, the ravaged old Queen herself.

The theater of Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth's court, and the criminal underworld of the sixteenth century are all colorfully re-created here in this exuberant novel of historical adventure.

Language: English

Pages: 221

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: William Morrow & Company

Release: December 31, 1974

ISBN: 0688218199

ISBN 13: 9780688218195

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