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Into the age of Shakespeare and Marlowe, Elizabeth and Essex, the horrific plagues of London and the brutal war in Ireland, strides one Nicholas Cooke, the hero of one of the most engagingly brilliant historical novels to appear in years. A memorable portrait not just of a man, but of an entire world. "From the Trade Paperback edition.
Elizabethan England comes to life in the story of young Nicholas Cooke, befriended by one Christopher Marlowe and an actor named Will Shagspere, as his quest for identity takes him from war in Ireland to London during the plague. A first novel.
Nicholas Cooke becomes fast friends with the ambitious priest, Thomas Wentworth, with whom he vies for the love of the beautiful Cecilia
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Reprint of the original, first published in 1885.