ROARING BOYS: SHAKESPEARE'S RAT PACK -- Judith Cook

Sutton Publishing -- tpb
Gloucestershire -- ©2004 -- 226pp
ISBN: 0750933690

Professional theatre flowered in London during the 1580s. It became a magnet for a series of talented and ambitious young men who became the 'Roaring Boys'.

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This seemed as if it would be an interesting book, but the reality is that it's a bit unfocused. A book about the group of playwrights who were Shakespeare's contemporaries would be fascinating, but this book really only contained one chapter of such. The rest was history of the era and the Elizabethan theatre.

I know there are bios of these individuals out there, but I was definitely looking forward to a combined sort of bio.

I guess I need to keep looking.