The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
In 1612, William Shakespeare was called upon by a London court to help settle some messy business. Some eight years earlier, while living in a home owned by a French Protestant couple named Mountjoy, he had agreed to . . .
The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
by Charles Nicholl
(Viking, $27)
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