The Players and the Rebels

by Antonia Forest

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Summary

Five years have passed since Nicholas Marlow ran away from home at the age of eleven and after various 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 aging 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.

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