Dr Simon Forman - Hardcover

Cooke, Judith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0701168994 ISBN 13: 9780701168995

Verlag: Chatto & Windus, 2001

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Charismatic, volatile and ambitious, Simon Forman rose from a poor country upbringing in Wiltshire, via a slave-apprenticeship in Salisbury and a spell as a servant in Oxford to become one of the wealthiest doctors in London. He was doctor to the giants of the theatre and his 'playbook' contains the first eye-witness accounts of Shakespeare's plays. Like most doctors he also cast horsocopes for all and sundry- from soldiers, courtiers and sailors to women on the look-out for marriage. On the fringes of intrigues at Court, he was linked to Sir Walter Raleigh's 'School of the Night' and to the famous Overbury poisoning case, starring the beautiful Countess of Essex.This lively account of his life sees him denounced as a quack, a crank, and an astrologer who used black magic - yet his meticulous case-notes are now a key source for Elizabethan medicine. Judith Cook also reveals his private life, deciphering, for the first time, his intimate coded diary detailing all his law cases and battles with the establishment and particularly his hectic sex life, a record of promiscuity as vivid as Pepys or Bowell. (One of his affairs was with Elizabeth Lanier, perhaps the 'Dark lady' of S

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Judith Cook has written extensively on the Elizabethan theatre. She tutors at Exeter University in Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies.

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• Verlag: Chatto & Windus
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0701168994
• ISBN 13: 9780701168995
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 240
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