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The lodger : his life on Silver Street / Charles Nicholl.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Furness Shakespeare Library (Van Pelt 628) PR2907 .N53 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Nicholl, Charles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
- Shakespeare, William.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern, 1500-1700--Biography.
- Dramatists, English.
- Dramatists, English--Early modern--Biography.
- Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Homes and haunts--England--London.
- Cripplegate (London, England)--Social life and customs.
- Cripplegate (London, England).
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First American edition.
- Other Title:
- Lodger Shakespeare
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Viking, 2008.
- Contents:
- Part 1 'One Mr Shakespeare'
- 1 The deposition 3
- 2 Turning forty 17
- 3 Sugar and gall 27
- 4 Shakespeare in London 36
- Part 2 Silver Street
- 5 The house on the corner 47
- 6 The neighbourhood 57
- 7 'Houshould stuffe' 71
- 8 The chamber 75
- Part 3 The Mountjoys
- 9 Early years 89
- 10 St Martin le Grand 94
- 11 Success and danger 103
- 12 Dr Forman's casebook 112
- 13 The menage 128
- Part 4 Tiremaking
- 14 Tires and wigs 139
- 15 The 'tire-valiant' 150
- 16 In the workshop 160
- 17 The underpropper 168
- Part 5 Among Strangers
- 18 Blackfriars and Navarre 175
- 19 Shakespeare's aliens 181
- 20 Dark ladies 189
- Part 6 Sex & the City
- 21 Enter George Wilkins 197
- 22 The Miseries 207
- 23 Prostitutes and Players 212
- 24 Customer satisfaction 227
- 25 To Brainforde 233
- 26 'At his game' 239
- Part 7 Making Sure
- 27 A handfasting 251
- 28 'They have married me!' 259
- 29 Losing a daughter 268
- Appendix: The Belott-Mountjoy papers 279.
- Notes:
- Published in Great Britain as The lodger : Shakespeare on silver Street by Allen Lane, a division of Penguin Books Ltd.--T.p. verso.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780670018505
- 0670018503
- OCLC:
- 174138963
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