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The Pale Companion

By Philip Gooden

The Pale Companion Contemporary literature

The Pale Companion

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Midsummer 1601. Nick Revill and his fellow actors in the Chamberlain's Men are journeying across the Wiltshire Downs for a country-house presentation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. It should be a pleasant, well-paid jaunt to celebrate a noble marriage, but when the actors arrive at their destination, Instede House, they enter a tense atmosphere. Lord Elcombe is pushing his older son into a marriage that the son seems set against, while in the nearby woods a wild man called Robin talks in riddles of long-hidden family secrets. In another quarter of the great estate lodges a travelling band of fire-and-brimstone morality players called the Paradise Brothers. The first death, when it occurs, looks like suicide, but Nick isn't so sure . . . Then a second murder happens right under his nose . . . and turns the Dream into a nightmare. Praise for Philip Gooden 'The witty narrative, laced with puns and word play so popular in this period, makes this an enjoyable racy tale' Sunday Telegraph 'A clever criminal plunge into history' Guardian
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
338
Release Date:
2020-03-05
Publication Date:
2020-03-05
Publisher:
Hachette UK Distribution
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1472133587
ISBN13:
9781472133588
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
236 g
Height:
124 cm
Width:
191 cm
Thickness:
24 cm
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