Simon Forman was one of the most extraordinary personalities of Elizabethan and Jacobean London.Charismatic, volatile and ambitious, he was doctor to the giants of the theatre and his 'playbook' contains the first eye-witness accounts of Shakespeare's plays. Like most doctors he was also an astrologer, reading the stars for all and sundry.Constantly on the fringes of great events and court intrigues, his name has been linked with Sir Walter Raleigh's mysterious group, 'the School of Night' and with the notorious Overbury poisoning case, in which the beautiful Countess of Essex was accused of murder.Also uncovered is Forman's private world, that of a compulsive womaniser who kept a coded diary, never fully deciphered before, a record of promiscuity as colourful as the journals of Pepys and Boswell.
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Simon Forman was one of the extraordinary personalities of Elizabethan and Jacobean London. Like most doctors, he was also an astrologer, reading the stars for all and sundry. This book uncovers Forman's private world, that of a compulsive womaniser who kept a coded diary, a record of promiscuity as colourful as the journals of Pepys and Boswell.
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Brilliant, written with wit and relish, packed with detail
The first full biography of Simon Forman - one of the most extraordinary and colourful personalities of the Elizabethan age.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780099289623
Publisert
2002
Utgiver
Vendor
Vintage
Vekt
190 gr
Høyde
198 mm
Bredde
130 mm
Dybde
16 mm
Aldersnivå
01, U, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
256

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Judith Cook spent the first part of her career as an investigative journalist. She wrote several non-fiction books on social issues, including an investigation into the death of the anti-nuclear compaigner Hilda Murrell. She was herself a political and anti-nuclear campaigner. She also wrote biographies of Daphne du Maurier and J. B. Priestley, a popular historical fiction series and theatre scripts. She later taught Elizabethan and Jacobean studies at Exeter University. She died in May 2004.