Title: The lodger
First published: 2007
Description: In 1612 Shakespeare gave evidence at the Court of Requests in Westminster – it is the only occasion his spoken words are recorded. The case seems routine – a dispute over an unpaid marriage-dowry – but it opens up an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life-story. Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating episode in Shakespeare's life.  Marshalling evidence from a wide variety of sources, including previously unknown documentary material on the Mountjoys, he conjures up a detailed and compelling description of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked, and in which he wrote such plays as Othello, Measure for Measure and King Lear.
Subjects: Social life and customs, Dramatists, English, English Dramatists, Homes and haunts, Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Biography, History, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, biography, Shakespeare, william, 1564-1616, homes and haunts, Dramatists, biography
Places: Cripplegate (London, England), England, England) Cripplegate (London, London
People: William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Time periods: Early modern, 1500-1700