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The Lost Diary of Shakespeare's Ghostwriter

by Steve Barlow

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A comic diary view of Shakespeare’s England

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A comic diary view of Shakespeare’s England

Presented as the eighth entry in the Lost Diary series, this historical novel imagines a behind-the-scenes account of William Shakespeare’s career through Egbert Noah Bacon, a member of his writing group. The diary format frames Shakespeare not only as the celebrated playwright but as part of the busy, unsettled world of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. Alongside the question of how so many plays and poems came to be written, the book incorporates the Spanish Armada, the Gunpowder Plot, the reign and death of Elizabeth I, the plague, the invention of the lavatory, and the building and burning of the Globe Theatre. Historical material is paired with fictional comedy.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Children interested in Shakespeare and the Globe Theatre
  • Ages 9–12 readers who enjoy humorous historical fiction
  • Readers curious about Elizabethan England and major events around Shakespeare’s lifetime

Themes

Shakespeare and playwritingElizabethan EnglandHistorical eventsThe Globe TheatreComedy and invented diaries

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Book overview

The eighth Lost Diary - factually accurate, fictionally funny! William Shakespeare himself needs no introduction, but not everyone knows the secrets of his success!

How could a man so busy with life in Elizabethan England have had time to write all those plays and poems? Enter stage right, Egbert Noah Bacon - one of his writing group who, quill in hand, gives us a new perspective on the Bard himself and of a fascinating period of English history:

Includes Spanish Armada, Gunpowder Plot, Queen Elizabeth First's life... and death... and successor. The Plague, the invention of the lavatory and, of course, the building and burning of the Globe Theatre.

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