The Final Act of Mr Shakespeare
  • Published:
    Feb-2010
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  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    436
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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 ambitions. 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.

THE FINAL ACT OF MR SHAKESPEARE is an exhilarating portrait of England's greatest author - not in love but raging against the dying of the light. It is an outrageous tour de force of theatrical imagination, full of the spirit of the Bard.
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    • First Edition
    • Feb-2010
    • Little, Brown
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 1408702304
    • ISBN13: 9781408702307
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    • Apr-2011
    • Abacus Software
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0349122504
    • ISBN13: 9780349122502
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    • Mar-2010
    • Little, Brown
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 1408702061
    • ISBN13: 9781408702062



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