Shakespeare's Changeling

Literature & Fiction

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Synopsis

Charged in 1616 by the Earls of Pembroke and Montgomery to edit a folio of Shakespeare plays, writer Ben Jonson races against time to uncover the missing manuscripts by seeking out his former nemesis, the bedridden William Shaxper. But far more worrisome is that the Earl of Oxford's daughter, the Countess of Montgomery, wants the folio published as a tribute to her father. Could Lord Oxford's darkest secrets threaten the throne of King James? Chaucer Award Winner "Kline keeps the pages turning… a lively interpretation that will win Oxfordian approval and may even convince Stratfordians to suspend disbelief and enjoy it." —Kirkus Reviews "The writing is adept, and the narrative is compelling...'Shakespeare's Changeling' is historical fiction at its finest..." --Chanticleer Book Reviews

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I am an author and educator who believes that writers create within the context of their own experience. By helping students connect the real Shake-speare with his life and works, we enable them to see relationships in their own learning, thinking and writing. Was there more than one Shake-speare, or was he really Lord Oxford, a known writer of his time forced to hide behind his distant kinsman, a grain merchant from Stratford? Not sure? Read my controversial novel and think about it.

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The Puzzle Of Editing

Working out the “kinks” in the plot of a novel is like solving a complex board puzzle. There is no such thing as leftover pieces: everything must fit in its proper place for the story to move forward and reach its conclusion. When writing my historical fiction, I wrestled with my novel’s plot and moved quite a few sticky notes around to arrange events as close as possible to known facts, while stepping into a character’s shoes, allowing them to speak through me. Editing a novel is like solving a complex puzzle, leaving no loose ends to confuse and lose the reader. Having received an international award for my book shows that successful storytelling is a matter of successful problem solving.

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Shakespeare's Changeling

William knew this penalty was far more gruesome than being forced to marry Anne Hathaway, who’d been pregnant with his child.

“Noblemen father bastards every day and never go to prison for it,” Greene snickered. “And despite her peculiar mercy, the Queen made Lord Oxford suffer for his errant romance. When she learned that he and his mistress had exchanged secret vows to marry after he was granted the divorce from his adulterous wife, the Queen denied it to him. She had no desire to see Catholicism persist in any of England’s noble families, and since Lord Oxford’s mistress was Catholic, he was forced to abandon her and return to his Protestant wife.

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Syril Levin Kline

Shakespeare's Changeling

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The Puzzle Of Editing

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Shakespeare's Changeling

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