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The Mystery of Leslie Howard
出版Forever Press, 2011-04-04
主題Fiction / GeneralFiction / Historical / GeneralFiction / LiteraryPerforming Arts / General
ISBN09835027069780983502708
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=FWS4uAAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋In "Another Hamlet" (which includes both his original 30-page 1993 essay and the original screenplay based upon it) Charles Boyle has produced a riveting political thriller that explores the life and tragic death of actor and film-maker, Leslie Howard, a British patriot drawn into a deadly propaganda duel with the Germans. Deftly interweaving the behind-the-scenes politics of World War II with the decadent showbiz world of the 1930s-1940s, Boyle makes the tantalizing suggestion that it was Howard s growing conviction that the Earl of Oxford wrote Shakespeare which sealed his doom. From Leslie Howard himself to Humphrey Bogart, Merle Oberon, Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden, and Joseph Goebbels, Boyle brings to life a fascinating and often chilling cast of characters to tell the story of a maverick artist s losing battle with the power-brokers of his age. -- Charles Beauclerk, author of "Nell Gwynn" and "Shakespeare's Lost Kingdom."