The Quality of Mercy
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Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0747257620
ISBN 13
9780747257622
Category
FICTION
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Publication Year
1989
Publisher
Pages
608
Subject
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Fiction.; Jews -- England -- Social conditions -- Fiction. Dramatists, English -- Early modern, 1500-1700 -- Fiction.; Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth, 1558-1603 -- Fiction.
Abstract
1593: Elizabethan London seethes with political and religious intrigue, while across the sea thousands perish in the flames of the Spanish Inquisition. On the surface Roderigo, the Queen's physician, is a loyal subject of the Crown but secretly he and his family are Jewish conversos, hiding their illegal religion. Rebecca, Roderigo's daughter, is torn between her duty - which includes a loveless marriage to a converso - and her fascination with the heady world of Elizabethan London. Slipping out of her household one night, disguised as a man, Rebecca stumbles into a sword fight with someone equally romantic and heedless: Will Shakespeare, an ambitious young dramatist who, like Rebecca, has secrets to conceal and mysteries to unravel. Together, they embark on an adventure that plunges them into the sinks and stews of Elizabethan England - and into the course of history itself...
Number of Copies
1
Library | Accession‎ No | Call No | Copy No | Edition | Location | Availability |
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Main | 33102000004478 |
FIC KEL |
1 | Leo Baeck Kew - Australia | Yes |