The Lost Diary of Shakespeare's Ghostwriter

The eighth Lost Diary - factually accurate, fictionally funny William Shakespeare himself needs no introduction, but not everyone knows the secrets of his success

How could a man so busy with life in Elizabethan England have had time to write all those plays and poems? Enter stage right, Egbert Noah Bacon - one of his writing group who, quill in hand, gives us a new perspective on the Bard himself and of a fascinating period of English history:

Includes Spanish Armada, Gunpowder Plot, Queen Elizabeth First's life... and death... and successor. The Plague, the invention of the lavatory and, of course, the building and burning of the Globe Theatre.

Author: Steve Barlow
Publisher: HarperCollins Children's Books
Published: 03/01/1999
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.32d
ISBN: 9780006945888

About the Author

Steve Barlow and Steve Skidmore have written numerous titles including the Mad Myths in Puffin's Surfer series for older, reluctant readers; Playscripts for OUP and contemporary teenage novels for Piccadilly Press. As well as being authors, they both teach English and Drama in Leicester. Steve Barlow in a further education college and Steve Skidmore in a secondary community school .

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