The Player's Boy Author:Bryher, Patrick Gregory "Bryher is known as the author of distinguished, poetically evocative historical novels. Their melancholy magic, their ability to recapture the mood of a historical crisis and their haunting symbolism introduced a fresh and original approach to historical fiction. [This is] a striking and beautifully written narrative... Bryher is extraordinaril... more »y skillful in her magical ability to capture the essence of an individual emotion and the quality of a national mood."-The New York TimesJames Sands trains with the great actors of the Elizabethan stage-until his master dies unexpectedly, and he is cast into the brutality of Jacobean London.« less