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The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Streetby: Charles Nicholl July 03, 2008 |
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Charles Nicholl's books about Marlowe and da Vinci have previously graced my reading list: the first is a meticulous reconstruction of Marlowe's final meal in an attempt to explain the playwright's death, which is sometimes a little repetitive; the second a more conventional biography of the renaissance polymath. The Lodger is closer to the first, in being a depiction of how Shakespeare possibly lived whilst in London, centring on a single event, the signing of a legal deposition by the playwright which concerned his landlord, but fortunately without the repetitiousness. So little is actually known about the bard that to say it is amazing nobody did this before is an understatement, but it is a tribute to Nicholl ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marloweby: Charles Nicholl October 03, 2002 |
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In 1593, the brilliant playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl in Deptford, London. The official record stated that this row was over the bill, or "recknynge". The truth, believes Nicholl, is much darker: a murder, by the shadowy agents of the Elizabethan secret service.
Nicholl's investigation rarely concerns itself with the playwright or his texts, instead beginning with the three men present at Marlowe's death. Ingram Frizer was a swindler and a loan-shark, who admitted the stabbing but claimed self-defense, and was acquitted with unusual, probably suspicious, speed just weeks later. Nicholas Skeeres was a government intelligence agent, probably paid by the Earl of Essex or his faction. And Robert Poley seems ... Read More: >>More Details |
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The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Streetby: Charles Nicholl November 01, 2007 |
List Price: £20.00 Vegetarian Books Price: £11.95 You Save: £8.05 (40%)Prices subject to change. Used Price: £9.95 |
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Charles Nicholl's books about Marlowe and da Vinci have previously graced my reading list: the first is a meticulous reconstruction of Marlowe's final meal in an attempt to explain the playwright's death, which is sometimes a little repetitive; the second a more conventional biography of the renaissance polymath. The Lodger is closer to the first, in being a depiction of how Shakespeare possibly lived whilst in London, centring on a single event, the signing of a legal deposition by the playwright which concerned his landlord, but fortunately without the repetitiousness. So little is actually known about the bard that to say it is amazing nobody did this before is an understatement, but it is a tribute to Nicholl that he has picked ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mindby: Charles Nicholl April 07, 2005 |
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This book, like Leonardo himself, is somewhat of a puzzle. It is a five hundred page biography about a man whom it appears we actually know very little about in terms of his daily life and activities. Yes, we have his notebooks and some of his paintings, but these shed little light on his day to day life.
What is clear from this book is that there are very few hard facts about Leonardo to be found. The major Renaissance source of information is Vasari's Life of Painters, which is still in print, only it turns out that Vasari made most of his 'facts' up, and never even actually saw The Mona Lisa in the flesh, so Nicholl is left to piece together fragments. This is a Time Team like affair where a line of scribbled writing on a manuscript page ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Leonardo da Vinci: the Flights of the Mind: The Flights of the Mind (Penguin Celebrations)by: Charles Nicholl September 06, 2007 |
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This book, like Leonardo himself, is somewhat of a puzzle. It is a five hundred page biography about a man whom it appears we actually know very little about in terms of his daily life and activities. Yes, we have his notebooks and some of his paintings, but these shed little light on his day to day life.
What is clear from this book is that there are very few hard facts about Leonardo to be found. The major Renaissance source of information is Vasari's Life of Painters, which is still in print, only it turns out that Vasari made most of his 'facts' up, and never even actually saw The Mona Lisa in the flesh, so Nicholl is left to piece together fragments. This is a Time Team like affair where a line of scribbled writing on a manuscript page ... Read More: >>More Details |
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Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91by: Charles Nicholl May 07, 1998 |
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A fascinating and illuminating read. As a travel book it fulfils my desire to learn more and want to go myself. As a romance it is enchanting and thus quite charming. As a biography it goes where no-one else has considered it interesting to go - and how wrong they were. As a whole it entraps and enchants, and keeps it mystery like a the best romantics.
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The Fruit Palaceby: Charles Nicholl May 07, 1998 |
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This book is a rare thing.There is something of the streetwise combined the well read.It puts you in a space between the world of the conformist and the outlaw.People can only critisize the sincerity of the story but even that only adds to beautiful prose-like seedy imagery in this unreal chaotic reality.It rocks.
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Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (National Portrait Gallery Insights)by: Charles Nicholl October 24, 2005 |
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This book is a rare thing.There is something of the streetwise combined the well read.It puts you in a space between the world of the conformist and the outlaw.People can only critisize the sincerity of the story but even that only adds to beautiful prose-like seedy imagery in this unreal chaotic reality.It rocks.
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Borderlines: Journey in Thailand and Burma (Picador Books)by: Charles Nicholl December 08, 1989 |
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This book is a rare thing.There is something of the streetwise combined the well read.It puts you in a space between the world of the conformist and the outlaw.People can only critisize the sincerity of the story but even that only adds to beautiful prose-like seedy imagery in this unreal chaotic reality.It rocks.
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The Reckoning: The Murder of Christopher Marloweby: Charles Nicholl June 11, 1992 |
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In 1593, the brilliant playwright Christopher Marlowe was stabbed to death in a tavern brawl in Deptford, London. The official record stated that this row was over the bill, or "recknynge". The truth, believes Nicholl, is much darker: a murder, by the shadowy agents of the Elizabethan secret service.
Nicholl's investigation rarely concerns itself with the playwright or his texts, instead beginning with the three men present at Marlowe's death. Ingram Frizer was a swindler and a loan-shark, who admitted the stabbing but claimed self-defense, and was acquitted with unusual, probably suspicious, speed just weeks later. Nicholas Skeeres was a government intelligence agent, probably paid by the Earl of Essex or his faction. And Robert Poley seems to have been the ... Read More: >>More Details |
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