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NICHOLAS COOKE ACTOR, SOLIDER, PHYSICIAN, PRIEST, the story of a brilliant but hot-tempered boy who grows up as an apprentice in Shakespeare’s theater troupe 1593 and to whom Shakespeare is a life-long mentor, was first published eighteen years ago by W.W. Norton. It was called “immensely moving,” by the CHICAGO TRIBUNE, “compelling reading” by the SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, “brilliant, bawdy, and utterly delightful,” by MADELEINE L’ENGLE, and “a detailed portrait of Shakespearean England,” by KIRKUS which gave it a starred review as did PUBLISHER’s WEEKLY. THE NEW YORK TIMES wrote, “Cowell has poured heart and a great deal of intelligence into her first novel about an impetuous, inquisitive young man in an impetuous, inquisitive age,” and LIBRARY JOURNAL called it “An exquisitely drawn portrait of a robust age and a complex man at war with himself.”
The talented but conflicted Nicholas Cooke wanted to be an Anglican priest since he was a child, yet his fiery temperament consigned him to far different apprenticeships. His adventures lead him to become an actor, a soldier, and, as he grew older, a physician. During his lifetime Nicholas encounters Shakespeare, plague, the secret life of the Queen, many loves, marriage and children, the joy of the theatre, and the troubles of war. He serves his master, John Heminges, who teaches him the craft of acting; but it is the master's wife who teaches Nick about love. Yet he never can forget his early call to be a priest until in the depths of losses he cannot face, an unexpected door opens to him at last.
From the dramatic opening lines to the inspiring conclusion of this first book of this trilogy, Nicholas Cooke grows, stumbles, presses on, and eventually becomes a man whom others respect and recognize as a brilliant mind and a sensitive, loving soul. But there is much more to Nick's story, and, as Nicholas himself might have understood, an end is but a beginning.
NICHOLAS COOKE was a choice of the History Book Club. It is the first part of a trilogy which will take Nicholas from 1593 to 1666, from his boyhood through the fall of the monarchy and its eventual restoration. The next novel, THE PHYSICIAN OF LONDON (which will be available as an e-book late 2012) won an American Book Award. The last book of the trilogy will be published towards the end of 2013.
Stephanie Cowell is also the author of CLAUDE & CAMILLE A NOVEL OF MONET (Crown), MARRYING MOZART (Viking Penguin) and THE PLAYERS A NOVEL OF THE YOUNG SHAKESPEARE (W.W. Norton).
Nicholas Cooke Actor Soldier Physician Priest Nicholas Cooke Trilogy Book 1 edition by Stephanie Cowell Russell Clay Literature Fiction eBooks
The year is 1593, in the city of Canterbury with its magnificent Cathedral, 13 year old Nicholas Cooke dreams of studying priesthood at Cambridge. But instead he is expelled from school and told that he needs to go into some trade. The apprenticeship lasts seven years. He despises just the thought of it. He goes into the lowest trade of wheelwright as he doesn’t have father to pay his indenture fee. As he grieves his fate as apprentice, one day he sees a post about a drama to be played. “…as the actors spoke I forgot both who I was and where I belonged. Never had I heard such English verse in all my life.”His aggressive master learns of Nicholas' idling instead of working and in self-defense Nicholas stabs him. Then he runs off to London. While on the run, he realizes: “I should be neither priest nor scholar: I should be carnage and dust.”
After entering London, the road takes him uphill to the walls and gates of St. Paul’s Church. He sings by the church to earn some pennies and his voice catches ears of a playwright Kit Morley. He gets Nicholas apprenticed to a theater.
Up to this point the story is gripping. The author is clearly a master storyteller. But once Nicholas meets other playwrights and actors and their wives and sexuality enters the scene, I lost interest in the story.
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Nicholas Cooke Actor Soldier Physician Priest Nicholas Cooke Trilogy Book 1 edition by Stephanie Cowell Russell Clay Literature Fiction eBooks Reviews
Several years ago I discovered the excellent prose of Stephanie Cowell when I read MARRYING MOZART. I decided to buy her first novel NICHOLAS COOKE, which she has just released as an ebook. I was totally mesmerized by her grasp of the Elizabethan period, and her ability to bring the sights, sounds, and smells alive for a modern reader. Nicholas interacts with Shakespeare and has a charming affair with a married woman, but his difficult journey from ignorance to enlightenment is the crux of Cowell's story. For anyone who wants to read a lush historical novel with a protagonist to root for and love, NICHOLAS COOKE is a novel to be savored. I plan to upload the new ebook via and reread.
-- Susan Dormady Eisenberg, arts journalist and author of the debut novel, THE VOICE I JUST HEARD
I never ordered this item to be downloaded to my Zeki tablet or smart phone! And I was charged!
I gave it five stars because Nick never ceased to hold my attention. The turmoil he went thru
Trying to make peace with God was very interesting
Well-written and fascinating window into living in Shakespeare's England. Fans of Stephanie Cowell will not be disappointed.
Really terrific writing during a turbulent time period under an oppressive government. Ms. Cowell's eye for detail and historical setting is terrific. Highly recommend this series.
A fascinating splendidly researched story about a contemporary (fictional) of Shakespeare, Burbage, Marlowe and many others. Cowell paints a rich canvas of the era from the poor and wandering to the noble and landed, including an exploration of the church in those troubled times. Nicholas's own inner journey is fully as complex and often contradictory as his journey through the countryside and cities of Elizabethan England. I recommend this book as a really good read.
In the late 1500's a young man, whose father was hung as a thief and mother a woman forced to sell herself, is traumatized by a brutal childhood. He dreams of becoming a priest but due to his volatile temper he reacts before he thinks and must flee his boyhood village because he believes he has murdered the man to whom he was apprenticed. So begins the story spanning over thirty years in which this tortured young soul seeks love and guidance from others older and wiser. Yet always on the cusp of seeming to attain maturity, his yearnings and guilt arise and propel him elsewhere, frequently inflicting great frustration and pain on others who forgive him far beyond the threshold point of most human beings.
Arriving in London, he becomes an actor apprentice, falling in love with Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, and other great writers and actors of the time who at the time are fledglings in their craft and subject to the favor of Queen Elizabeth and those who fawn at her throne for power and riches. He must learn swordplay, tumbling, and other necessary skills and that he does very well indeed, also exhibiting an intellectual curiosity unusual for one in his social class. Years pass and after betraying his master's trust he flees to become a man by fighting with Lord Essex against the Irish who are rebelling against the Queen. Although he makes a great friend, Toby, he grows up fast after seeing the horrors and stupidity of warfare, a scenario of unprepared soldiers outnumbered and out-skilled by rebels passionate for their cause.
Returning to London, he takes up acting again. The coming of the plague begins to bring out his compassionate desire to be a healer and find a cure for this devastating illness that he himself will survive. Then follows a period of aspiring to be a deacon where his wife follows him into a bleak and lonely existence, compounded by a terrible, unspeakable loss that will scar and yet form him anew. He will thus meet scientists and clergy who will lead him back to what they believe is his clear call to become a priest.
The plot seems simple, yet Stephanie Cowell is a master at exposing every conflicting and inspiring thought that transpires in our hero's mind and soul. Multiple riveting details fill out the synopsis briefly stated above. Historical events of the times are cleanly and clearly interwoven naturally into the plot. One meets the grand and the poor in all their glory and squalor, scenes where the lines frequently cross mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually. The reader feels he or she is right there in England as the theater develops from its shameful beginnings into its final professional status, when new discoveries in learning and science are thrilling the minds and spirit of this revolutionary century, and when men are learning to think for themselves about spirituality even in the midst of the "darkest" hours of their lives. The outcome is painfully positive and yet one couldn't imagine it any other way, and there are twists and turns that keep the reader alert and flipping the pages for more...more...more! There is so much more to say about Nicholas and his friends/ foes and the only way to catch it all is to read this magnificent historical story!
This reviewer loved this novel from beginning to end and believe it to be a true classic of historical fiction! Highly, highly recommended!
The year is 1593, in the city of Canterbury with its magnificent Cathedral, 13 year old Nicholas Cooke dreams of studying priesthood at Cambridge. But instead he is expelled from school and told that he needs to go into some trade. The apprenticeship lasts seven years. He despises just the thought of it. He goes into the lowest trade of wheelwright as he doesn’t have father to pay his indenture fee. As he grieves his fate as apprentice, one day he sees a post about a drama to be played. “…as the actors spoke I forgot both who I was and where I belonged. Never had I heard such English verse in all my life.”
His aggressive master learns of Nicholas' idling instead of working and in self-defense Nicholas stabs him. Then he runs off to London. While on the run, he realizes “I should be neither priest nor scholar I should be carnage and dust.”
After entering London, the road takes him uphill to the walls and gates of St. Paul’s Church. He sings by the church to earn some pennies and his voice catches ears of a playwright Kit Morley. He gets Nicholas apprenticed to a theater.
Up to this point the story is gripping. The author is clearly a master storyteller. But once Nicholas meets other playwrights and actors and their wives and sexuality enters the scene, I lost interest in the story.
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