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A laughing hangman turns the stage into the gallows... When Nicholas Bracewell finds himself once again in the parlour of his lost love, Anne Hendrik, he was not expecting her entreaties to embroil him in the murder of a beloved choir master. Between tales of cruelty, forgotten maps of London and a butcher determined to rescue his son, it is yet another mystery for the book keeper to untangle. But will his quest endanger Lord Westfield's Men? As their latest play, The Misfortunes of
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- Canonical title
- The Laughing Hangman
- Original publication date
- 1996
- People/Characters
- Jonas Applegarth; Nicholas Bracewell
- Important places
- England, UK (as England); Blackfriars, London, England, UK
- Important events
- Tudor Era
- Epigraph
- Plays will never be suppressed, while her Majesty's unfledged minions flaunt it in silks and satins... Even in her Majesty's chapel do these pretty upstart youths profane the Lord's day by the lascivious writhing of their te... (show all)nder limbs and gorgeous decking of their apparel, in feigning bawdy fables gathered from the idolatrous heathen poets.
- ANONYMOUS, The Children of the Chapel Stripped and Whipped (1569) - First words
- He missed her.
- Original language
- English
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- Members
- 104
- Popularity
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- (3.55)
- Languages
- English, French
- Media
- Paper, Audiobook, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 11
- ASINs
- 5
