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Overview

In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In The Lodger Shakespeare, Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bard's life. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of sources, Nicholl creates a compellingly detailed account of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked amid the bustle of early seventeenth-century London. This elegant, often unexpected exploration presents a new and original look at Shakespeare as he was writing such masterpieces as Othello, Measure for Measure, and King Lear.
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Overview

In 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spoken words were recorded. In The Lodger Shakespeare, Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in the Bard's life. Drawing on evidence from a wide variety of sources, Nicholl creates a compellingly detailed account of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked amid the bustle of early seventeenth-century London. This elegant, often unexpected exploration presents a new and original look at Shakespeare as he was writing such masterpieces as Othello, Measure for Measure, and King Lear.

Editorial Reviews

Michael Dirda
…readers, especially those with a taste for historical detection, will simply enjoy the way Nicholl recreates "the physical and cultural circumstances" of one brief and strange period in Shakespeare's life.
—The Washington Post
From The Critics
The Lodger Shakespeare, resting on a solid foundation of teased-out biographical details, opens a window onto Jacobean London and the swirl of sights and sensations that surrounded Shakespeare and inevitably found their way into his plays. From a mere handful of dry facts embedded in an obscure lawsuit, Mr. Nicholl brings forth a gaudy, tumultuous, richly imagined world.
—The New York Times
The Barnes & Noble Review
At first glance, this book's premise hardly seems book-worthy. In 1612, Stephen Belott, feeling cheated out of his dowry, brought a suit against his father-in-law, Christopher Mountjoy. One of the witnesses called to testify was Mountjoy's former lodger, William Shakespeare. Whatever his sense of the potential theatricality of foiled marriages and in-law relations, the Bard isn't very revelatory and fails to wax poetic on the witness stand. He claims not to remember much about what happened. The event -- our only record of Shakespeare's spoken words ever being recorded -- was unearthed by an intrepid researcher in 1909. It's remained largely unremarked for a century. Nevertheless, it offers a window, however narrow, into Shakespeare's daily life and dealings. Charles Nichol, to his credit, illuminates that window. He's studiously exhumed what faint traces of early Jacobean times remain in the parish where Shakespeare briefly resided, fleshed out the context of the case, and elaborated the place in London society of Shakespeare's French landlords. What arrives through this meticulous upending is not so much a portrait, but a series of faint glimpses of the playwright at one moment of his otherwise mysterious life, as well as of the odd backdrop against which he chose for a time to prop it. At times, the very ordinariness of the life revealed is the book's exhilaration, while at others the pleasure is glimpsing a world whose mores and artifacts are almost wholly lost to us. Nichols manages to make both types of revelation suspenseful. --Tess Taylor

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780670018505
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
  • Publication date: 1/31/2008
  • Pages: 400
  • Product dimensions: 6.22 (w) x 9.18 (h) x 1.30 (d)

Meet the Author

Charles Nicholl is a historian, biographer, and travel writer. His Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind garnered widespread critical acclaim and has been translated into seventeen languages.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations     xiii
Preface     xvii
'One Mr Shakespeare'
The deposition     3
Turning forty     17
Sugar and gall     27
Shakespeare in London     36
Silver Street
The house on the corner     47
The neighbourhood     57
'Houshould stuffe'     71
The chamber     75
The Mountjoys
Early years     89
St Martin le Grand     94
Success and danger     103
Dr Forman's casebook     112
The menage     128
Tiremaking
Tires and wigs     139
The 'tire-valiant'     150
In the workshop     160
The underpropper     168
Among Strangers
Blackfriars and Navarre     175
Shakespeare's aliens     181
Dark ladies     189
Sex & the City
Enter George Wilkins     197
The Miseries     207
Prostitutes and Players     212
Customer satisfaction     227
To Brainforde     233
'At his game'     239
Making Sure
A handfasting     251
'They have married me!'     259
Losing a daughter     268
Epilogue     274
Appendix: The Belott-Mountjoy papers     279
Notes     308
Sources     351
Index     363
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