Sleep of Death (Nick Revill)
Registered by wickedlazy of Wickford, Essex United Kingdom on 6/20/2011
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The Blurb
In the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign, Nick Revill, an aspiring young actor, comes to London seeking fame and fortune. He is lucky enough to gain employment with a troup of players known as the Chamberlain's Men.
Nick is offered lodgings in a wealthy Thameside mansion by a sombre youth whose father has just died and whose mother has remarried his uncle. Pondering on the similarities between the young man's story and a new tragedy called Hamlet, Nick is charged with the task of finding out whether foul play was involved in the death of the old man.
A finger of suspicion begins to point to his enigmatic employer, Mr Shakespeare himself - actor, author and shareholder in the Chamberlain's men....
My thoughts on the book
I really enoyed this one. I'd already read Hamlet so knew what the plot to that was about and it features highly in this book - it's the whole story almost. However even if you've not read it, it doesn't matter as the plot of Hamlet is fully explained throughout Sleep of Death. I've also read Bill Brysons biography of Shakespeare and so little is known about WS that the enigmatic, mysterious character that Philip Gooden dreams up is very clever...no one can say "pooh, the real Shakespeare was nothing like that" because no one has a clue what he was really like! I also really liked Nell and the Apothecary even though his part was quite brief.
A very well written, enjoyable book, I'll look out for more by Gooden.
In the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign, Nick Revill, an aspiring young actor, comes to London seeking fame and fortune. He is lucky enough to gain employment with a troup of players known as the Chamberlain's Men.
Nick is offered lodgings in a wealthy Thameside mansion by a sombre youth whose father has just died and whose mother has remarried his uncle. Pondering on the similarities between the young man's story and a new tragedy called Hamlet, Nick is charged with the task of finding out whether foul play was involved in the death of the old man.
A finger of suspicion begins to point to his enigmatic employer, Mr Shakespeare himself - actor, author and shareholder in the Chamberlain's men....
My thoughts on the book
I really enoyed this one. I'd already read Hamlet so knew what the plot to that was about and it features highly in this book - it's the whole story almost. However even if you've not read it, it doesn't matter as the plot of Hamlet is fully explained throughout Sleep of Death. I've also read Bill Brysons biography of Shakespeare and so little is known about WS that the enigmatic, mysterious character that Philip Gooden dreams up is very clever...no one can say "pooh, the real Shakespeare was nothing like that" because no one has a clue what he was really like! I also really liked Nell and the Apothecary even though his part was quite brief.
A very well written, enjoyable book, I'll look out for more by Gooden.
Journal Entry 2 by wickedlazy at Park and Ride Great Baddow in Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom on Thursday, September 11, 2014
Released 9 yrs ago (9/11/2014 UTC) at Park and Ride Great Baddow in Chelmsford, Essex United Kingdom
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
I liked this book so much I must have read it 5 or 6 times, but now I have to let it go (bookshelf breaking!) I will leave it on a park and ride bus for someone to find.
