Will Power

William Shakespeare--poet, playwright, husband, lover, family man, detective--the many sides of the Bard of Avon appear in these books. These novels reveal many of the Shakespeare's secrets: Anne Hathaway, the shrew he never tamed? Who really was the Dark Lady? What about the second-best bed? Could he out-Marlowe Marlowe? Did Shakespeare really write the plays?

The True Prince

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By J. B. Cheaney

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Newly apprenticed to Shakespeare's theater company, Richard and Kit are drawn into a series of crimes involving the members of Queen Elizabeth's court.

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The Quality of Mercy

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By Faye Kellerman

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"Rebecca Lopez enjoys a life of privilege in Elizabeth's England -- yet she guards secrets she dares not reveal. The beautiful, tempestuous daughter of the queen's own physician, Rebecca is also a converso -- a Jew who practices her prohibited religion clandestinely -- helping others of her banned faith escape persecution and death. And her insatiable hunger for excitement often takes her to the bustling streets of London in male garb to experience the kind of adventure available only to men. But one such outing is leading her into a dangerous viper's nest built of intrigue and foul murder in the company of a dashing young actor who inflames her romantic passions, even as he escorts her toward peril, a charming and fearless would-be playwright who calls himself Will Shakespeare."

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The Late Mr. Shakespeare

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By Robert Nye

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"Our guide to the life of the Bard is an actor called Pickleherring, who asserts that as a boy he was an original member of Shakespeare's acting troupe. In an attic above a brothel in Restoration London--a half century after Shakespeare has departed the stage--Pickleherring, now an old man, sits down to write the full story of his former friend, mentor, and master. Fond, faithful Pickleherring has forgotten nothing over the years, and using sources both firsthand and far-fetched he means to set the record straight. Was Shakespeare ever actually 'in love'? Did he write his own plays? Who was the Dark Lady of the Sonnets?."

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The Shakespeare Stealer

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By Gary Blackwood

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A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.
Part of a series.

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A Mystery of Errors

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By Simon Hawke

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"Two travelers, Will Shakespeare-a fledgling dramatist, and Symington Smythe, an ostler and aspiring thespian, meet at a roadside inn and decide to cast their lot together for fame and fortune in the cutthroat world of the London theater in Elizabethan England..."

First of a series.

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Mrs. Shakespeare

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By Robert Nye

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A bawdy romp purportedly written by Shakespeare's wife, Anne Hathaway, after his death.

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King of Shadows

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By Susan Cooper

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While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.

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Her Infinite Variety

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By Pamela Berkman

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"These lyrical stories move from Elizabethan London, where Shakespeare is drawn to the plight of the young wife of a wealthy friend, to a wintry Denmark, where Ophelia struggles to understand her love for Hamlet, and to Shakespeare's Stratford home, where his daughter Judith deliberately enters into a shameful marriage. At the center of this remarkable book is Shakespeare's enduring love for Anne Hathaway, his beautiful, passionate, illiterate wife."

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Blue Avenger Cracks the Code

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By Norma Howe

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Sixteen-year-old David, also known as the Blue Avenger, visits Venice and tries to solve the mystery of who really wrote Shakespeare's works.
Sequel to The Adventures of the Blue Avenger.

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Any Man So Daring

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By Sarah A. Hoyt

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William Shakespeare has become the preeminent playwright of Elizabethan England, but his success comes with a price--his son Hamnet has disappeared in the realm of the Elven King, and Will must face the powers of darkness to rescue him.

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