- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: Allison & Busby; New edition edition (23 Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0749004959
- ISBN-13: 978-0749004958
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 959,323 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Narrated by young Mr Pickleherring, an actor who played Rosalind, Portia, Juliet, Lady Macbeth and Cleopatra, this fictional biography of Shakespeare covers every aspect of the bard's life and work in a bawdy flight of fancy.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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Having read this at the public library I decided I wanted a copy to keep. It's both learned and a great entertainment. I've been teaching Shakespeare for 40 years and this is some of the most fun I've ever had with him. A wonderful imaginary book as if it was written by a member of Shakespeare's acting company.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The time and place is Restoration London and the comedian Pickleherring is writing the first biography of William Shakespeare. Pickleherring played the female roles in Shakespeare's plays when he was a boy and they were new. Now he's a strange old man lives over a brothel and has a thing for ladies' underclothes. Pickleherring tackles all the controversies of Shakespeare's life and adventures. Half-invented and half-real, his series of tales about the Bard is mostly amusing.
3 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
It may be me, but I find this kind of book difficult.
This is Shakesperean scholarship dressed up as fiction. Told as the life story of one of Shakespeare's boy actors, we hear a version of Shakespeare's early life, his sex life, and the roots of the sonnets. This is erudite stuff, and the humorous fictional dressing struggles to hide the erudition.
The theories are probably sound - I respect the author - but the rendition is clumsy. I much prefer his other, more rumbustious book, Mrs Shakespeare.
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