A Gentleman Player

Complete and unabridged, with 57 full-page plates by Richard Wilson, Frederic Leighton and William Hogarth. An actor of the Chamberlain's Men is sent north on a secret errand for Elizabeth's council, pursued by a knight who wants the same commission and a woman who knows more than either. Robert Neilson Stephens wrote historical romances with a stage sense — he had been a playwright — and the swor...