The Lodger

This book reads well as a history of everyday life in Jacobean England. It does not read well as a biography of Shakespeare. As is the problem with all biographies of Shakespeare, there is simply not enough known to fill out a book-length biography and the author is forced to speculate. I did enjoy t......more

Really interesting deep dive into Shakespeare's tenure as a lodger on Silver Street. Readable and fascinating for anyone who enjoys biographical works related to theatre/Shakespeare/Elizabethan history.......more

I feel as if I've been on a walk through the 16th century streets of London. I've seen the rooms where Shakespeare lodged whilst he was working in the city - writing and acting in plays, corroborating with other writers and becoming involved in the personal lives of the Mountjoys 'tire' makers. I've......more

A fascinating snapshot of a period in Shakespeare's life when he was staying as a lodger in the house of some flemish lace-makers who made some of the elaborate head-dressses worn in Elizabethan times. He was apparently called as a character witness in a marriage dispute over the daughter' dowry. We......more

Wenn ich nur auf Buchtitel und Inhalt schaue, würde ich sagen, dass der Autor das Thema verfehlt oder bestenfalls angeschnitten hat. Auch wenn William Shakespeare immer wieder auftaucht, liegt der Fokus mehr seinen Vermietern, den Mountjoys und den Menschen in der gemeinsamen Umgebung. Charles Nicho......more