Book Review
Feb. 2nd, 2005 06:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kenjariYou, My Brother
by Philip Burton
Finally, I managed to pick a historical novel that didn't suck. This book was about Ned Shakespeare, William's much younger brother. Ned goes to London when he is sixteen to join the Lord Chamberlain's Players, the company William wrote for. The writing was quite good, and it's obvious that the author did some respectable research not just into the lives of his characters, but the period itself. I certainly learned alot about Elizabethan theater. Ned, William, their colleagues, and their friends are pretty interesting bunch, and this book about them makes for enjoyable reading.
by Philip Burton
Finally, I managed to pick a historical novel that didn't suck. This book was about Ned Shakespeare, William's much younger brother. Ned goes to London when he is sixteen to join the Lord Chamberlain's Players, the company William wrote for. The writing was quite good, and it's obvious that the author did some respectable research not just into the lives of his characters, but the period itself. I certainly learned alot about Elizabethan theater. Ned, William, their colleagues, and their friends are pretty interesting bunch, and this book about them makes for enjoyable reading.
