The Resource The lodger : his life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl
The lodger : his life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl
Resource Information
The item The lodger : his life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item The lodger : his life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- "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. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage dowry - but it opens an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life story. Some eight years earlier, we learn, Shakespeare was lodging in the house of a French immigrant family, the Mountjoys, in the Cripplegate area of London. While there he was called on by his landlady to "persuade" the family's former apprentice to marry their daughter." "Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in Shakespeare's life. Marshaling evidence from a wide variety of sources, including previously unknown documentary material on the Mountjoys, he conjures up a detailed and compelling description of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked, and in which he wrote plays such as Othello, Measure for Measure and King Lear, Nicholl also throws new light on the puzzling story of Shakespeare's collaboration with the back author and brothel keeper George Wilkins." "In this subtle and atmospheric exploration of Shakespeare at forty, we see him not from the viewpoint of literary greatness, but in the humdrum and very human context of Silver Street, where to the maid of the house he was merely "one Mr. Shakespeare," renting the room upstairs."--BOOK JACKET
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Note
- Published in Great Britain as The lodger : Shakespeare on silver Street by Allen Lane, a division of Penguin Books Ltd.--T.p. verso
- Isbn
- 9780670018505
- Label
- The lodger : his life on Silver Street
- Title
- The lodger
- Title remainder
- his life on Silver Street
- Statement of responsibility
- Charles Nicholl
- Title variation
- Lodger Shakespeare
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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. The case seems routine - a dispute over an unpaid marriage dowry - but it opens an unexpected window into the dramatist's famously obscure life story. Some eight years earlier, we learn, Shakespeare was lodging in the house of a French immigrant family, the Mountjoys, in the Cripplegate area of London. While there he was called on by his landlady to "persuade" the family's former apprentice to marry their daughter." "Charles Nicholl applies a powerful biographical magnifying glass to this fascinating but little-known episode in Shakespeare's life. Marshaling evidence from a wide variety of sources, including previously unknown documentary material on the Mountjoys, he conjures up a detailed and compelling description of the circumstances in which Shakespeare lived and worked, and in which he wrote plays such as Othello, Measure for Measure and King Lear, Nicholl also throws new light on the puzzling story of Shakespeare's collaboration with the back author and brothel keeper George Wilkins." "In this subtle and atmospheric exploration of Shakespeare at forty, we see him not from the viewpoint of literary greatness, but in the humdrum and very human context of Silver Street, where to the maid of the house he was merely "one Mr. Shakespeare," renting the room upstairs."--BOOK JACKET
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Nicholl, Charles
- Dewey number
-
- 822.3/3
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PR2907
- LC item number
- .N53 2008
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Shakespeare, William
- Shakespeare, William
- Dramatists, English
- Cripplegate (London, England)
- Label
- The lodger : his life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl
- Note
- Published in Great Britain as The lodger : Shakespeare on silver Street by Allen Lane, a division of Penguin Books Ltd.--T.p. verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 174138963
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670018505
- Lccn
- 2007042553
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)174138963
- Label
- The lodger : his life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl
- Note
- Published in Great Britain as The lodger : Shakespeare on silver Street by Allen Lane, a division of Penguin Books Ltd.--T.p. verso
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-362) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 174138963
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Edition
- 1st American ed.
- Extent
- xviii, 377 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780670018505
- Lccn
- 2007042553
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
- (OCoLC)174138963
Library Links
Embed
Settings
Select options that apply then copy and paste the RDF/HTML data fragment to include in your application
Embed this data in a secure (HTTPS) page:
Layout options:
Include data citation:
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-lodger--his-life-on-Silver-Street-Charles/RvNe5jhvdFI/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-lodger--his-life-on-Silver-Street-Charles/RvNe5jhvdFI/">The lodger : his life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.umsl.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.umsl.edu/">University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
Note: Adjust the width and height settings defined in the RDF/HTML code fragment to best match your requirements
Preview
Cite Data - Experimental
Data Citation of the Item The lodger : his life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl
Copy and paste the following RDF/HTML data fragment to cite this resource
<div class="citation" vocab="http://schema.org/"><i class="fa fa-external-link-square fa-fw"></i> Data from <span resource="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-lodger--his-life-on-Silver-Street-Charles/RvNe5jhvdFI/" typeof="Book http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/Item"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a href="http://link.umsl.edu/portal/The-lodger--his-life-on-Silver-Street-Charles/RvNe5jhvdFI/">The lodger : his life on Silver Street, Charles Nicholl</a></span> - <span property="potentialAction" typeOf="OrganizeAction"><span property="agent" typeof="LibrarySystem http://library.link/vocab/LibrarySystem" resource="http://link.umsl.edu/"><span property="name http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/label"><a property="url" href="http://link.umsl.edu/">University of Missouri-St. Louis Libraries</a></span></span></span></span></div>
