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Welcome to London, William Shakespeare

(2014)
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Bored with working in his father's glove-making shop, young Shakespeare leaves his wife, Anne Hathaway, and baby daughter to move to London. Here in the country's exciting capital and far from Stratford-upon-Avon, the ambitious playwright meets a theatre owner and writes for the stage. As his plays are much in demand, he mixes with other writers and important people. One of these is the alluring Dark Lady. With a somewhat guilty conscience he becomes more and more involved with her. She can help him move on through her contacts with influential aristocrats. Meanwhile, the queen's spy service wants to send him to Rome. Which plots does he discover there apart from Romeo and Juliet and Julius Caesar? How does this affect his writing?

We know very little about Shakespeare's private life. Will this novel tell us more?



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