As word of the amazing find spreads, scholars and actors alike beat a path to Irelands door, and soon all of London is eagerly anticipating opening night of a star-studded production of the play. When William Ireland, an ambitious young antiquarian bookseller, comes into their lives claiming to possess a lost Shakespearean play, the Lambs can barely contain their excitement. The siblings enchantment with Shakespeare provides a much-needed escape, and they delight in reading and quoting the great bard. His sister, Mary, is trapped in domesticity, caring for her ailing, dotty father and her maddening mother. Charles, an aspiring writer bored stiff by his job as a clerk at the East India Company, enjoys a drink or three too many each night at the local pub.
A tour de force in the tradition of Hawksmoor and Chatterton, Peter Ackroyds new novel of deceit and betrayal is a witty reimagining of a great nineteenth-century Shakespeare forgery.Ĭharles and Mary Lamb, who will achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare For Children, are still living at their parents home.
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