Author: Antonia Forest
Publisher: Girls Gone By
Date: 2008
Pages: 310
Format: Paperback
Description
Five years have passed since Nicholas Marlow ran away from home at the age of eleven and after carious adventures found himself a boy player in the Lord Chamberlain’s company of actors. Since then the Company has flourished, but unexpected danger threatens when a performance of The Life and Death of King Richard the Second provides a prelude to the Earl of Essex’s rebellion against the ageing Queen: while at the same time a sinister figure from Nicholas’s past returns to draw him, briefly and fatefully, into Sir Robert Cecil’s web of spies and informers.
The Players and the Rebels tells a dramatic and often moving story, and like The Player’s Boy, to which it is a sequel, it gives a fascinating picture of the Elizabethan theatre and the troubled last years of the Queen’s long reign.
This new edition from Girls Gone By includes an extra 60 pages of introductory and background material.
