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The Lambs of London.(Book review)

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**** The Lambs of London By Peter Ackroyd Reviving the Bard.

This novel, by the author of Shakespeare: The Biography (2005), takes place in the 19th century, a few months before real-life Mary Lamb murdered her mother and a decade before her brother, English essayist Charles Lamb, published Tales from Shakespeare. Charles, a young writer working as a clerk at London's East India Company, and Mary, constrained by domesticity, escape their lives by reading the Bard. Then William Ireland, a young bookseller, discovers a "lost" Shakespearean play and other Shakespearean documents. ...

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