The Secret Life of William Shakespeare : A Novel

from GeraniumCat

Jude Morgan, who has acquired many plaudits for his accounts of Byron, Caroline Lamb, the Brontës and others, has daringly turned his hand to Shakespeare, a man whose very existence has been doubted by many. This book tells the story of Shakespeare's adult life, while he was still working in Stra...

from Cariola

As a Shakespearean by profession, I've read many works of fiction centered on the life of William Shakespeare. Most of them are pure drivel. Those by Robert Nye, in fact, so disgusted me that I trashed them rather than passing them on to some poor unsuspecting reader. But Jude Morgan is one of my...

from the.ken.petersen

There is a scene, in this book, where William is coating his face in white make up to appear as a ghost in one of 'the plays what he wrote' (a small tribute there to another great British playwright, the late Ernie Wise). He seems to have kept the mask throughout this tome. Anne Hathaway, John Sh...

from GeraniumCat

Jude Morgan, who has acquired many plaudits for his accounts of Byron, Caroline Lamb, the Brontës and others, has daringly turned his hand to Shakespeare, a man whose very existence has been doubted by many. This book tells the story of Shakespeare's adult life, while he was still working in Stra...

from Cariola

As a Shakespearean by profession, I've read many works of fiction centered on the life of William Shakespeare. Most of them are pure drivel. Those by Robert Nye, in fact, so disgusted me that I trashed them rather than passing them on to some poor unsuspecting reader. But Jude Morgan is one of my...