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Antonia Forest: The other Player’s Boy

25 Thursday Aug 2016

Posted by la Clarina in Books, Theatre

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Antonia Forest, Bryher, christopher marlowe, The Player's Boy, William Shakespeare

Antonia ForestOh yes, there is another one. Same title, but a very different book. Antonia Forest was a children’s writer – and, although this is one of those children’s book that are a pleasure to an adult reader, it’s definitely lighter fare than Bryher’s novel.

The story itself is of the Runaway Boy sort: at eleven, Nicholas Marlow lives with his much older, wealthy and indulgent brother, and studies at the local grammar school… Continue reading →

Bryher – The Player’s Boy

28 Thursday Jul 2016

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Austin Phillips, Bryher, Elizabethan theatre, Jacobean Era, James Sands, The Player's Boy, Walter Raleigh

BryherMy acquaintance with Bryher‘s work is, I must say, limited to one book – but what a book!

The Player’s Boy tells the story of an apprentice who doesn’t become an actor in the early reign of James VI and I. Bryher had both a researcher’s interest and a passionate fondness for the golden era of Elizabethan theatre, and this novel tells it decline with a kind of haunting intenseness.  Continue reading →

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