How did Will Shakspere of Stratford-upon-Avon, the son of illiterate parents, with barely a grammar school education, become the greatest playwright the English theatre will ever know? How did he learn his craft? How did he gain the knowledge his plays display? What was his own experience of the love, passion, pain and ambition he wrote into every line? This is the story of how that journey began. Having run foul of the local authorities, Will Shakspere is driven out of his home town and goes to London where he is welcomed into the Burbage family who have built London's first playhouse. There Will finds himself at the centre of the English theatre, its touring companies, its revolutionary playwrights, its creativity, passions and rivalries. There he meets the men that will steer him towards his destiny, the actor Richard Burbage, and the playwright, Christopher Marlowe. There he finds not only love, passion and pain, but his muse and inspiration.
- ISBN10 130042866X
- ISBN13 9781300428664
- Publish Date 30 January 2013 (first published 27 November 2012)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 15 January 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Lulu.com
- Format eBook (OEB)
- Language English