The final act of Mr Shakespeare

Robert Winder

earliest edition we have, 2010 Little, Brown, 2010 436 pages

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...

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Final Act of Mr Shakespeare edition · 2011 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 448 pages · 9780349122502
Final Act of Mr Shakespeare edition · 2010 · Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 448 pages · 9780748123957
The final act of Mr Shakespeare edition · 2010 · Little, Brown · 436 pages · 9781408702307

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