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01922aam a2200277 a 4500 001 298D7310A28011E7B08C5AFE96128E48 003 SILO 005 20170926010118 008 170105s20102011nyu 000 0 eng d 020 $a 1451613024 020 $a 9781451613025 (pbk.) 040 $a $c $d SILO 100 1 $a Feather, Jane. 245 10 $a All the queen's players / $c Jane Feather. 250 $a 1st pbk. ed. 260 $a New York : $b Pocket Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, Inc., $c 2011, c2010. 300 $a 455 p. ; $c 18 cm. 500 $a "Featuring a Pocket readers Club Guide"--Cover. 520 $a When she becomes a junior lady of Queen Elizabeth's bedchamber, Rosamund is instructed by the brilliantly devious secretary of state Sir Francis Walsingham to record all she observes. Her promised reward: a chance at a good marriage. But Rosamund finds herself drawn to the forbidden, rough-and-tumble world of the theater, and to her brother Thomas' friend, the impetuous playwright Christopher Marlowe. Then Rosamund meets Will Creighton, a persuasive courtier, poet, and would-be playwright...the embodiment of an unsuitable match. Their relationship draws the wrath of Elizabeth, and Rosamund is sent in disgrace to a remote castle holding Elizabeth's cousin Mary Stuart, the imprisoned Scottish queen. Here, Walsingham expects Rosamund to uncover a plot against Elizabeth. Surely, nothing good can come of putting an artless girl in close proximity to such seductive players and deceptive games. Unless, of course, Rosamund can discover an affinity for passion and intrigue herself... 650 0 $a Manners and customs. 650 0 $a Love stories. 651 0 $a England $x Social life and customs $y 16th century $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. $2 gsafd 941 $a 1 952 $l KJPF566 $d 20180623030441.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=298D7310A28011E7B08C5AFE96128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search