![]() ![]() And the alien magic of the faerie, so rich and strange, is also captured so well that there is no question of disbelief. ![]() ![]() There is a deep magic at work here, in this book, in the recreating of this time and place that resonates so strongly even centuries later. And Marley needs to negotiate the even more arcane plots and intrigues of the faerie court, and continue to think about those he left behind. and worry about his separation from his wife and family up at Stratford. He must deal with conspiracies and danger as well as write. Shakespeare is, of course, recruited after Marley is taken out of the picture. Of course there is a power in the plays! How else are Shakespeare-and so many others-explained? It seems there has been an ongoing war fought by poets, a magic and power in words that helps keep Elizabeth on the throne and which is mirrored in Faerie as well. That he's spirited off by fairies to the Court of Queen Mab (or Mebd, here), just fits right in. Show More is indeed working for Francis Walsingham and the Queen is a given, and it is natural that he doesn't actually die in that small room in Deptford (wild speculation has continued over the hundreds of years since, after all). ![]()
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