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Master Rosalind

Once again the Beattys give their readers a spirited heroine whose ideas are ahead of her time. Rosalind Broome, though a girl of gentle birth in Elizabethan England, refuses to accept traditional training in the ladylike virtues. In fact, she frequently dresses as a boy for protection whenever on a distant errand.

Her story begins when she is kidnapped on such an errand and taken to a den of thieves in London. There she is "baptized" into the fold with a tankard of ale. Fortunately, her failure as a pickpocket leads Rosalind to the alluring and forbidden world of the theater. Maintaining her boy's disguise, she joins a company of players and soon is acting feminine parts in the gentle Will's plays. Eventually, however, her actor's deception is exposed, and as Master Rosalind she is brought to a surprising confrontation with a kindred spirit, the ravaged old Queen herself.

The theater of Shakespeare, Queen Elizabeth's court, and the criminal underworld of the sixteenth century are all colorfully re-created here in this exuberant novel of historical adventure.

  • Format
  • hardcover
  • Pages
  • 221
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780688218195
  • Characters
  • William Shakespeare, Rosalind Broome, Elizabeth I of England
  • Settings
  • London, England
  • Genres
  • historical
  • Release date
  • 1974