Walter Savage Landor imagines the trial of young William Shakespeare, hauled before Sir Thomas Lucy on a charge of deer-stealing, with the chaplain Silas Gough and witnesses Euseby Treen and Joseph Carnaby. The examination becomes a comic duel of wit and pedantry, and a closing conference between Edmund Spenser and the Earl of Essex adds a darker note.
A witty Elizabethan pastiche by a master of the imaginary conversation. Download the free EPUB.