By Karen Harper
A scrumptious and fascinating ancient novel concerning the girl who used to be William Shakespeare’s mystery wife— via New York Times–bestselling writer, Karen Harper.
In Mistress Shakespeare, Elizabethan attractiveness Anne Whateley finds intimate information of her risky, bold lifestyles and her nice love, William Shakespeare. As ancient files express, Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton is betrothed to Will simply days prior to he's compelled to wed the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery. The clandestine Whateley/Shakespeare fit is a gathering of hearts and heads that no one—not even Queen Elizabeth or her spymasters—can damage. From rural Stratford-upon- Avon to teeming London, the passionate pair struggles to stick solvent and stay secure from Elizabeth I’s crusade to seek down mystery Catholics, of whom Shakespeare is rumored to be a component. frequently at odds, continuously in love, the couple sells Will’s first performs and, as he climbs to theatrical energy in Elizabeth’s England, they fend off fierce festival from rival London dramatists, ones as treacherous as they're gifted. Persecution and plague, rebellion and inferno, neighbors and foes, even executions of these they carry pricey, deliver Anne’s heartrending tale to existence. Spanning part a century of Elizabethan and Jacobean historical past and sweeping from the bottom reaches of society to the royal court docket, this richly textured novel tells the true tale of Shakespeare in love.
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But our lovemaking had been very real, and I yet treasured the memory. Nor, I told myself, would I forget this one, for I’d never been inside the vast structure that housed the queen’s wardrobe, that which was not of immediate need and kept at Whitehall Palace. I’d adored Elizabeth of England from the first moment I’d seen her, gorgeously gowned, on a white horse, when I was but eleven and she’d come to visit her favorite, the Earl of Leicester, near my home in Warwickshire. The boy led me round the corner into an alcove hidden from the street.
I asked, for a man as important as Edward Arden in this area owed direct allegiance to Leicester. He shook his head and leaned closer. “More like, he’s foregone it. Leicester’s been as mean as that bear on the tunics. He pesters and prosecutes recusants, and Cousin Edward’s spleen is up over it. ” Recusants were those with Catholic loyalties or leanings. They were recorded and fined if they didn’t attend the Protestant church. In the early days of her reign, the queen had commanded that everyone could keep his conscience private, but since several attempted Catholic plots and rebellions, she’d let her advisors convince her to change her policy.
We seemed to have passed from attire to military materials. As we rounded the next corner, my worst fears leaped at me from the shadows. Within a dimly lit grotto of garments, behind a small portable table sat a man simply but finely attired all in black; his amber eyes shone flatly, like an adder’s. It took me but a moment to realize I knew him—that is, I knew who he was. I had glimpsed him at court the time the players had taken me with them. His hunchback form was unmistakable. For months, the whole city had talked of naught but the bloodless battles between this man and the Earl of Essex.