Bedtrick

By: Jinny Webber

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Paperback | 16 November 2021

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344 Pages

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20.32 x 13.34 x 1.96

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Once a boy player in Shakespeare's company, Sander Cooke is now a hired man playing female roles. When Frances Field reveals she is pregnant by Sander's brother, Johnny, a fellow actor and aspiring playwright, Johnny makes it clear that marriage is not in his plans. But if Frances gives birth to a bastard, she'll lose her shop on London Bridge and her position as one of Queen Elizabeth's silkwomen. Sander would like to come to Frances' rescue: only Sander has a secret, kept both onstage and off - she is actually a woman. Even their friend Moll Frith, who goes around blatantly as a man, wouldn't marry a woman, but she does find Sander and Frances a wayward, short-sighted priest to solemnize the union. It is a marriage of convenience, but can these two women make a true union of it? Winding around this unconventional marriage, the London stage of the period comes alive, alongside political anxieties and rebellion, threats from the Spanish, troubles in Ireland, the plague, and the aging Queen Elizabeth's failure to name a successor.

Industry Reviews

"Steeped in the mores and events of the time Shakespeare's London, Bedtrick vibrates with contemporary resonance." Paul Mason Barnes, Director, Great River Shakespeare Festival
"From its opening pages, Bedtrick envelopes us in its richly imagined world as we cheer for its genderbending hero, Sander Cooke, a character so complex and appealing surely Shakespeare himself would have envied Webber's creation." David Starkey, author of What Just Happened
"Passion, sensuality, sexuality, and survival interwoven into a rollicking fine tale. Webber brings Shakespeare's era to life engaging us both on and off the stage." E. Bonnie Lewis, Co-Artistic Director, DramaDogs
"a wonderful read about the theatre and gender in London during the transition from Elizabeth I to James VI." Mort Weisman, Emeritus Publisher, The Swallow Press
" a behind-the-scenes look at London and Shakespeare's stage and company. Webber's choice of gendering Alexander Cooke cleverly provides a space to interrogate the gender and gender fluidity of the time." Hardy Cook, Editor Emeritus, SHAKSPER

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