Nicholas Cooke : actor, soldier, physician, priest : a novel / Stephanie Cowell

S. Cowell

Cowell vividly captures the earthily lyrical language and harsh social reality of Shakespearean England in an outstanding historical drama. After stabbing his brutal master in self-defense, Nicholas runs away to London. Playwright Kit Morley (aka Christopher Marlowe) who seduces him and soon tiring of him, Morley hands the boy over to John Hemmings who has formed a theater company with several other idealistic and near-penniless men, including Will Shagspere from Stratford.