Thief. Informer. Double-dealer. Pimp. Will Shadwell may not be the most moral of men, but to gentleman spy Henry Gresham he is invaluable. During the reign of King James I a man must know his enemies to survive and Shadwell is one of Gresham’s best sources. Then Shadwell is discovered brutally murdered. And before Gresham is able to establish why, he is summoned by the man he fears most: Robert Cecil, the King’s Machiavellian Chief Secretary. Cecil wants Gresham to investigate Sir Francis Bacon’s private life. When Gresham begins his inquiries, he uncovers a plot so audacious it is scarcely believable: a conspiring clutch of Catholic lords and a trail of gunpowder underneath the Houses of Parliament. From the court of King James to the deadly underworld of Jacobean London, Martin Stephen’s superb debut novel is as rich in atmosphere as it is in tension. Historical fiction of the highest order, The Desperate Remedy is a thrilling tale of courtly machinations.

The Desperate Remedy: Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot; A Novel

Literature & Fiction

STEPHEN, MARTIN

British & Irish

Thomas Dunne Books

It is 1612. Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, is dying. Now the threat from the Catholics has decayed, the Puritan majority are gaining an increasing stranglehold over English society. Parliament is starting to flex its muscles against the King whose court drifts shamelessly towards decadence and corruption. And the great period of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has ended with the abrupt retreat from public life of William Shakespeare. Then Henry Gresham is asked by Cecil's protege, Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, to trace a precious hand-written play manuscript that has gone missing, presumed stolen by a Cambridge bookseller. Gresham has no cause to realise that he is being used as live bait to draw out a murderous madman who is determined to destroy James I, a madman who was supposed to have died twenty years before, or that he is set to unravel the truth behind the authorship of one of the greatest plays the world has ever seen.

The Conscience of the King : Henry Gresham and the Shakespeare Conspiracy

Little,Brown & Co

Studying Shakespeare has been devised to meet the needs of students wishing to place the study of an individual Shakespeare play in the context of Shakespeare's work as a whole. The Handbook begins with a description of Shakespeare's life and his contemporary world. A general view of Shakespeare's work is then followed by brief critical analyses of all the plays that are likely to be studied as background reading for set books. 'The Actor's Shakespeare' concludes the volume with an account of how the written text can be transformed into fresh and invigorating stage productions.

York Handbooks - Studying Shakespeare (Longman Literature Guide Series)

Reference

Franks, Philip

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Longman Pub. Group

English Literature: A Student Guide

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Now appearing in its third edition, Martin Stephen's classic text and course companion to English literature has been thoroughly revised and updated, taking account of the changes which have occurred in the subject since publication of the second edition.

Routledge

INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (YORK HANDBKS. S)

Longman

Thief. Informer. Double-dealer. Pimp. Will Shadwell may not be the most moral of men, but to Henry Gresham - gentleman, scholar, courtier, spy - he is invaluable. For in the violent days of the reign of King James I, a man must know his enemies to survive. Then Shadwell is brutally murdered. But before Gresham is able to establish the reason, he is summoned to London by Robert Cecil, the King's Chief Secretary, and asked to discover the truth about Sir Francis Bacon's private life. As Gresham continues Cecil's bidding, his enquiries into Shadwell's death are uncovering a plot so audacious it is scarcely believable. . .

The Desperate Remedy: Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot

Genre Fiction

F A Thorpe Pub Ltd

Thief. Informer. Double-dealer. Whoremonger. Drunkard. Gambler. Will Shadwell may not be the most moral of men, but to Henry Gresham - gentleman, scholar, courtier, spy - he is invaluable. For in the dark days of the reign of King James I a man must know his enemies to survive; Shadwell, by hook or more often by crook, is one of his best sources. Then Shadwell is brutally murdered and Gresham is summoned to London by the man he fears most: Robert Cecil, the King's Chief Secretary, and Machiavellian master of a sinister network of spies. Cecil wants Gresham to discover the truth about Sir Francis Bacon's private life, but when Gresham begins his investigations, he finds that he is the one who is being watched ...As Gresham continues to do Cecil's bidding with ever increasing trepidation, his enquiries into Shadwell's death uncover a plot so audacious it is scarcely believable: a catholic uprising, a violent insurrection, and a trail of gunpowder underneath the Houses of Parliament ...

The Desperate Remedy : Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot

Contemporary

Time Warner

It is 1612. Robert Cecil, Chief Secretary to King James I, is dying. Now the threat from the Catholics has decayed, the Puritan majority are gaining an increasing stranglehold over English society. Parliament is starting to flex its muscles against the King whose court drifts shamelessly towards decadence and corruption. And the great period of Elizabethan and Jacobean drama has ended with the abrupt retreat from public life of William Shakespeare. Then Henry Gresham is asked by Cecil's protege, Chief Justice Sir Edward Coke, to trace a precious hand-written play manuscript that has gone missing, presumed stolen by a Cambridge bookseller. Gresham has no cause to realise that he is being used as live bait to draw out a murderous madman who is determined to destroy James I, a madman who was supposed to have died twenty years before, or that he is set to unravel the truth behind the authorship of one of the greatest plays the world has ever seen...

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The Desperate Remedy: Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot; A Novel

The Conscience of the King : Henry Gresham and the Shakespeare Conspiracy

York Handbooks - Studying Shakespeare (Longman Literature Guide Series)

English Literature: A Student Guide

English Literature: A Student Guide

INTRODUCTORY GUIDE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE (YORK HANDBKS. S)

The Desperate Remedy: Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot

The Desperate Remedy : Henry Gresham and the Gunpowder Plot

The Conscience of the King : Henry Gresham and the Shakespeare Conspiracy

The Desperate Remedy: AND The Conscience of the King