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" 'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' he enquired politely. 'No thanks!' I said. You should have seen the look he gave me. Then he smiled, all white and spiteful. He smiled at me, Mr Shakespeare, my husband. Well, I ask you." Here is Shakespeare as you have never seen him - through the eyes of his wife, the plain-speaking, never quite tamed but not unloving shrew, writing in her secret book the true, no-holds-barred history of her with her husband whose work she could never be bothered to read. And especially, of the only time he invited her to London....
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`A little masterpiece... funny, tender and highly memorable.' -- 'Daily Telegraph'
"A fanciful, sidelong view of a mysterious, mismatched marriage
that ends on a surprisingly tender note." -- 'The Times'
There is much sensual pleasure to be had from Nye's writing. His
Elizabethan London is vivid." -- 'Independent on Sunday'
`His book's sly echoes in the mind make it a lasting pleasure.'
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Robert Nye was born in London in 1939. His principal calling is poetry, and his A COLLECTION OF POEMS 1955-1988 was chosen by six critics as one of their Books of the Year. FALSTAFF, his second novel, was published in 1976 and won both Hawthornden Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize. His subsequent historical novels include MERLIN, FAUST, THE VOYAGE OF THE DESTINY, THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MY LORD GILLES DE RAIS and MRS SHAKESPEARE. His books have been translated into many languages, and he is also a respected literary journalist, having served for many years as poetry critic for The Times.
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- PublisherSouvenir Press Ltd
- Publication date2000
- ISBN 10 0285635514
- ISBN 13 9780285635517
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