The final act of Mr Shakespeare
By: Robert Winder
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 436
ISBN-13: 9781408702307; 9781408702062
Description: 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 perilous enterprise: King James I's spies are everywhere ...