The Lodger by Charles Nicholl



'An age of simmering randiness' is re-created in Charles Nicholls' lively piece of detective work, in which he illuminates Shakespeare's life by focusing on the household in London's Silver Street (near present-day London Wall) in which the playwright lodged, aged 40, in 1604.
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The house is long gone, but Nicholl brings us as close as one could imagine to the rackety world of Jacobean London. His starting point is a 1612 court case involving the family of Shakespeare's Huguenot ex-landlord, which contains the only record of the Bard's spoken words



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