by William Harrison Ainsworth
bookshelves: re-read, play-dramatisation, summer-2010, historical-fiction Read in December, 2008 Saturday Play: Boscobel 29-11-2008A dramatisation by Ian Curteis of the real-life escape of Charles II. Following the execution of his father, the future Charles II must flee England or die. Over a th...
Saturday Play: Boscobel 29-11-2008A dramatisation by Ian Curteis of the real-life escape of Charles II. Following the execution of his father, the future Charles II must flee England or die. Over a thrilling 40-day journey, young Charles has to learn how to live rough, how to evade capture and how t...
The adventures of Charles II during and immediately after his ill-fated stand at Worcester in 1651. The novel clearly incorporates a vast amount of historical research (though most of it is probably second-hand), and occasionally begins to sound just a tad too much like a textbook. And then there's ...
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