Shakespeare’s Dog (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Leon Rooke
- First Published: 1983
- Type of Work: Comic fantasy
- Time of Work: 1585, the year William Shakespeare left Stratford-upon-Avon
- Setting: Stratford-upon-Avon and its vicinity
- Principal Characters: Hooker, William Shakespeare, Will, Anne (nee Hathaway), John Shakespeare, Marr, Wolfsleach, Terry, Black Shag
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy
- Subjects: Dogs, Art or artists, Writing, England or English people, Sixteenth century, Drama or dramatists, Biography, Shakespeare, William, or Shakespearean plays, Humorists
- Locales: Stratford-upon-Avon, England
The Novel
The current action of Shakespeare’s Dog, a novel narrated in a robust simulated Elizabethan idiom by Hooker, William Shakespeare’s dog, takes place on a single day, the day Hooker and his master are forced to flee their home in Stratford-upon-Avon, pursued by Forest Regarders. Before the novel begins, Hooker has killed one of Sir Thomas Lucy’s prize deer at Chalfont Wood, near Stratford. The Regarders, in particular Black Shag, are tracking him down, intending to punish him either by crippling or by killing him. Early in the novel, Hooker learns of their...
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