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THE LODGER SHAKESPEARE

Charles Nicholl is a historian, biographer, and travel writer. His books include The Reckoning (winner of the James Tait Black Prize for biography and the Crime Writers Association Gold Dagger Award for nonfiction), A Cup of News: The Life of Thomas Nashe, Shakespeare and His Contemporaries (National Portrait Gallery Insights series), and Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa (winner of the Hawthornden Prize). His most recent book was the acclaimed biography Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind, which has been published in seventeen languages.

Praise for The Lodger Shakespeare

Mr. Nicholls efforts [bear] delicious fruit. The Lodger Shakespeare ... opens a window onto Jacobean London and the swirl of sights and sensations that surrounded Shakespeare and inevitably found their way into his plays. From a mere handful of dry facts embedded in an obscure lawsuit, Mr. Nicholl brings forth a gaudy, tumultuous, richly imagined world.William Grimes, The New York Times

[An] entertaining biographical study of Shakespeare.... Through imaginative use of primary source material, [Nicholl] culls the secret flavours of particularity that distinguished a corner of London at the turn of the seventeenth century.... With lively readings of the plays and a nuanced portrait of their author, he capably captures the simmering randiness of the age.The New Yorker

The Lodger Shakespeare enhances our sense of a great dramatists work and world by looking at the people around him. [Nicholls] prose moves steadily along, eschews gush, jargon and digression, and generally inspires confidence. This is the voice of a man who knows his stuff. A pro.

Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

Nicholls narrative technique is one of exhaustive research and elegant prose; [his] take is quietly pioneering: a new lens and an unaired episode. But beyond a claim to academic innovation, The Lodger Shakespeare is a brave and spotless statement on how we view W.S., and the subject of those we deem great.Dan Fall, The Brooklyn Rail

Nicholl takes us into Shakespeares life on Silver Street, the squalid underworld of medieval London. Taverns that double as brothels, cantankerous pimps, ambitious prostitutes, famed quacksits all here.... It is thrilling, and also revealing, to brush through Charles Nicholls expert reconstruction of the one time that the Bards words were actually reported.Vikram Johri, St. Petersburg Times

William Shakespeare with underpropper (see Chapter 17)

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First published in Great Britain as The Lodger: Shakespeare on Silver Street
by Allen Lane, a division of Penguin Books Ltd 2007
First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin,
a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. 2008
Published in Penguin Books (UK) 2008
Published in Penguin Books (USA) 2008

Copyright Charles Nicholl, 2007

All rights reserved

eISBN : 978-1-101-01125-6

1. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616. 2. Dramatists, EnglishEarly modern, 1500-1700
Biography. 3. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616Homes and hauntsEnglandLondon.
4. Cripplegate (London, England)Social life and customs. I. Title.
PR2907.N53 2008
822.33dc22
[B]
2007042553

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Edmond Locard, Manuel de Technique Policire, 1923

List of Illustrations

Frontispiece. Engraved portrait of Shakespeare by Martin Droeshout (second state). Title-page illustration from Mr William Shakepeares Comedies, Histories & Tragedies [the First Folio], 1623.

Map. The Agas map of London, c. 1561. Copyright Guildhall Library, London.

1. Shakespeares deposition at the Court of Requests, 11 May 1612 (PRO REQ 4/1/4). Copyright The National Archives.

2. Jacobean law-court. Seventeenth-century woodcut reproduced in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. William Chappell and J. W. Ebsworth (The Ballad Society, 1871-91).

3. Witness-list for the Belott-Mountjoy suit, May 1612 (PRO REQ 1/199). Copyright The National Archives.

4. Signatures of Daniel Nicholas, William Eaton, Noel Mountjoy and Humphrey Fludd, May-June 1612 (PRO REQ 4/1/4). Copyright The National Archives.

5. The Wallaces at the Record Office, c. 1909. Papers of Charles William Wallace, Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif. (Box 15 B 37).

6. Detail from the Agas map, c. 1561. Copyright Guildhall Library, London.

7. The Coopers Arms, Silver Street, c. 1910. From Harpers Monthly Magazine, Vol. 120, March 1910. Photo: Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif.

8. St Giles, Cripplegate, after the bombs, 1941. Pen, ink and wash drawing by Dennis Flanders. Guildhall Library Print Room, Flanders Collection (258/GIL Q4768985). Copyright Estate of the artist.

9. Plaque on the site of St Olaves, Silver Street. Photo: the author.

10. John Banister at Barber-Surgeons Hall, 1580. Glasgow University Library (Hunter MS 364 Top v 14, fol. 59). Photo: The Bridgeman Art Library.

11. Title-page illustration from Thomas Dekker, Dekker his Dreame (1620).

12. Le Cousturier by Jean LeClerc, c. 1600. Bibliothque Nationale, Paris. Photo: Archives Charmet/The Bridgeman Art Library.

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