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      The Players

      by Stephanie Cowell
      Published
      Apr 1997
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      252
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      In 1564 a boy was born to a middle-class family in the little town of Stratford.Thirty-four years later he would write Hamlet.  In between was his both troubled and carefree childhood, his disastrous forced marriage and his early wild years in London poverty with the brilliant young writers and actors who were forming the Elizabethan Theater. But even as he was rising into his first successes as a writer, he fell into a passionate bisexual love affair with his patron and an Italian girl musician that threatened to bring down both his work and his life.

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      Mar 2017 Createspace ISBN 1543036937
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      First Edition Apr 1997 W.W. Norton & Company ISBN 0393040607
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