Master Skylark - Large Print Edition Author:John Bennett 1896. Master Skylark was first published in St. Nicholas magazine about 70 years ago. It has since attained and retained such popularity and importance as an exciting story and as a truly remarkable and accurate reproduction of the life and color of Elizabethan England that critics consider it a classic. The story is that of a young man with an ... more »exceptional voice who joins a traveling Shakespearean troupe, but never loses his desire to be with his family.« less