Nick Talbot is in Flight. The Elizabethan gentleman-spy and entrepeneur must outwit his enemy Mowbray, recently escaped from the Tower, and ensure that playwright Christopher Marlowe, secretly returned from Europe, isn't recognised by those who've long thought him dead. As Marlowe's Hamlet debuts to
The Great Lie: A Nicholas Talbot Adventure
โ Scribed by Myrrha Stanford-Smith
- Book ID
- 110819661
- Publisher
- Honno Press
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 387 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781906784515
- ASIN
- B008VC9V0Y
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โฆ Synopsis
Nick Talbot, 16-year-old son of the late first Earl of Rokesby, escapes the clutches of his tyrannical guardian by running away with Will Kempe's troupe of travelling players. They bring him to London and into a hotbed of political and sexual intrigue. Nick is a talented lad and soon comes to the attention of playwright Christopher Marlowe. So begins a partnership that leads to one of the most audacious plots theatre has even known and puts Nick at the centre of a ring of actors, writers, spies and power-mongers.
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Nick Talbot is heartbroken: his family home burned to the ground and the love of his live married to anither. Added to which, his passion for the stage has made him the mainspring of the theatre's greatest-ever company. Tucked away in Verona, Kit Marlowe - according to history a dead man - continues