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Автор: CHAPIN ANDREA
Год: 2015
Издание:
Москва
Страниц: [не указано]
ISBN: 9781594632549
The year is 1590 and Katharine de L'Isle is living at Lufanwal Hall, the manor of her uncle, Sir Edward. Thirty-one-years-old and widowed, Katharine's life is a dull and monotonous procession of chores and prayer, enlivened only by her uncle's company and vast library. But all of that changes when the household's priest, who had been performing Catholic services for the family in secret, against the Queen's orders, is found brutally murdered. Faced with threats of imprisonment and death, Sir Edward is forced to flee the country, leaving Katherine at home, desperately alone. It is at this time of anxiety and turmoil that a new schoolmaster arrives from Stratford, a man named William Shakespeare. Coarse, quick-witted and brazenly flirtatious, Shakespeare quickly disrupts what fragile peace there is left at Lufanwal. Katharine is at first appalled by the boldness of this new tutor, but when she learns that he is a poet, and one of some talent, things between them begin to shift. What...
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