| The Player's Boy Contributor(s): Bryher (Author), Gregory, Patrick (Other) |
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ISBN: 1930464096 ISBN-13: 9781930464094 Publisher: Wesleyan University Press OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2006 Annotation: "Bryher is known as the author of distinguished, poetically evocative historical novels. Their melancholy magic, their ability to recapture the mood of a historical crisis and their haunting symbolism introduced a fresh and original approach to historical fiction. [This is] a striking and beautifully written narrative... Bryher is extraordinarily skillful in her magical ability to capture the essence of an individual emotion and the quality of a national mood."-"The New York Times" James Sands trains with the great actors of the Elizabethan stage-until his master dies unexpectedly, and he is cast into the brutality of Jacobean London. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2006009789 |
| Physical Information: 0.72" H x 6.4" W x 8.12" (0.65 lbs) 208 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Sex & Gender - Masculine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Shakespeare in Love meets Oliver Twist in this Elizabethan story of adventure, loyalty, and the stage The orphaned James Sands anticipated a magnificent career as apprentice in an Elizabethan theater troupe. But when his masters dies unexpectedly, Sands must fight for his art, his home, and ultimately his life as the violent reign of King James I overshadows the glory and creative life of the Elizabethan era. An historical novel with profound reverberations today in the U.S., the UK, and Europe. |
