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The Ghost Theatre : A Novel.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Osman, Mat.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Fortune-tellers--Fiction.
Fortune-tellers.
Actors--Fiction.
Actors.
Children's theater--Fiction.
Children's theater.
Social classes--England--London--Fiction.
Social classes.
Genre:
Paranormal fiction.
Theatrical fiction.
Novels.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (334 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
New York, NY : Abrams, Inc., 2023.
Summary:
A wild and hallucinatory reimagining of Elizabethan London, with its bird worshippers, famed child actors, and the queen herself, Mat Osman's TheGhost Theatre is a dazzling historical novel about the stage, magic, and the dangers of all-consuming love.London, 1601--a golden city soon to erupt in flames. Shay is a messenger-girl, falconer, and fortune teller who sees the future in the patterns of birds. Nonesuch is the dark star of the city's fabled Blackfriars Theatre, where a cast of press-ganged boys perform for London's gentry. When the pair meet, Shay falls in love with the performances--and with Nonesuch himself. As their bond deepens, they create the Ghost Theatre, an underground troupe that performs fantastical plays in the city's hidden corners.The growing fame of the troupe fans the flames of rebellion among the city's outcasts, drawing Shay and Nonesuch into the dark web of the Elizabethan court. Embattled, with the plague on the rise throughout the country, the queen seeks a reading from Shay, a moment that unleashes chaos not only in Shay's life but across the whole of England, too.A fever dream full of prophecy and anarchy, gutter rats and bird gods, Mat Osman's The Ghost Theatre is a wild ride from the rooftops of Elizabethan London to its dark underbelly, and a luminous meditation on double lives and fluid identities and the bewitching, transformative nature of art and power, with a bittersweet love affair at its heart. Set amid the vividly rendered England of Osman's imagination and written in rich, seductive prose, The Ghost Theatre will have readers under its spell from the very first page.
Contents:
Intro
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Act I: London, 1601
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Act II
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Act III
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Acknowledgments
A Note on The Author
A Note on The Type
Back Cover.
Notes:
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
Other Format:
Print version: Osman, Mat The Ghost Theatre
ISBN:
9798887070179
OCLC:
1385455009

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