The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street. Charles Nicholl

The Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street



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Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Language: English
Page: 416
ISBN: 014311462X, 9780143114628

From Publishers Weekly

Nicholl, winner of a Hawthornden Prize for Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, re-creates the physical and cultural circumstances of the two-year period of 1603–1605 when Shakespeare, around 40 and at the peak of his profession, was a lodger in the home of a sexually lax Huguenot family who provided raw material for All's Well That Ends Well and other works. At the center of events is a 1612 lawsuit about a dowry unpaid by Shakespeare's former London landlord to his son-in-law. The landlord, Christopher Mountjoy, despite his success as a maker of women's decorative headwear, was a stingy man who withheld his daughter's dowry; after his wife's death, he was censured by church elders for fathering two bastards by his maid. Shakespeare may have played a larger role in the drama, persuading the reluctant bridegroom, who was Mountjoy's apprentice, to marry the daughter in the first place. While details of early Jacobean London are atmospheric, placing Shakespearean works into historical context, Nicholl's determination to sort out the biographical truths in Shakespeare's plays waxes tedious, and only the Bard's cultish devotees will care about the minutiae of headgear and wigs or the Mountjoy lawsuit. For the rest, it's much ado about nothing. 36 illus. (Feb. 4)
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In the warmly readable Shakespeare Unbound (2007), René Weis extrapolated a whole biography from Shakespeare’s writings. Nicholl takes Shakespeare’s signed deposition in a suit involving the Mountjoys, with whom he had boarded, and develops from it the context of a few years in Shakespeare’s life. His former hosts were “tyremakers,” fashioners of elaborate headgear (“tyres”) for wealthy women and theater companies’ wardrobes. The pater- and materfamilias were French Huguenot refugees, and while Shakespeare resided with them—quite comfortably, since he was a landed gentleman—he negotiated the marriage of the family’s daughter and an apprentice. Nicholl opens up the situation’s possibilities for the playwright. He probably honed his French among the immigrants and appropriated physical, emotional, and occupational details from them for the personae of his dramas. Most piquantly, he could have learned much about the demimonde from them and such associates as George Wilkins, the coauthor of Pericles, for the Mountjoys’ circle was involved with adulterers and prostitutes; indeed, Wilkins was a pimp. In an era blessed with them, another treasure trove of Shakespeareana. --Ray Olson
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