May 2013: Latest news! GMTA of North Carolina USA are bringing out my latest historical novel "ANNE OF CLEVES _ HENRY'S LUCKIEST WIFE" in mid-July 2013.
Before exploring the rest of this site, how about trying to solve this fun no-prizes Shakespeare Quiz?
Quiz # 5 based on history - according to the Bard.
1) Which of the following kings did NOT appear in any WS play? Henry IV, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII and Henry VIII?
2)Who of the following queens are mentioned in "Henry VIII"? Catherine of Aragon, Anne of Cleves or Catherine Howard?
3) In "Henry V", the king marries Katherine immediately after the Battle of Agincourt in 1415.
How long did he really have to wait before marrying her? 1 year, 3 years, 5 years or 7 years?
4) Which history play features a battle at Homildon or Humbledon Hill on the Anglo-Scottish border?
5) Richard III takes the son of which lord as a hostage. What happened to the son after Richard was killed at Bosworth Field and what did the lord do afterwards?
Please send your answers to me via my Contacts page on this site or to: dlwhy04@yahoo.com
Thank you and enjoy yourselves.
Note: Many of the answers to this quiz will be found in my books which appear elsewhere on this site and can be bought directly from the publisher or Amazon.
DAVID LAWRENCE-YOUNG
NOW OUT!!!
My latest Shakespeare detective novel:
"Will the Real William Shakespeare Please Step
Forward?!"
Published by Vanguard Press/Pegasus Publishers
(ISBN: 9781843868491)
This is a detective novel about how four academics decide to solve the ever-current question: Did William Shakespeare, a young man from Stratford-upon-Avon, a small agricultural town one hundred miles away from London, really write the poems, plays and sonnets attributed to his name?
Could these great works have been written instead by a well-educated aristocrat who was too embarrassed to admit he was the author? Could these works have been written by a team of writers? Maybe some of them were even written by a woman! Perhaps his wife had a hand in them! Who knows?
You will if you read this detective novel and learn the truth to: Who really wrote William Shakespeare.
STOP PRESS!!!
My Shakespeare & Marlowe novels are now on KINDLE and so are SAIL AWAY FROM BOTANY BAY and ARROWS OVER AGINCOURT!
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David Lawrence-Young
D.Lawrence-Young (aka David L. Young) is an English, Drama and History teacher and lecturer who has specialized in English and military history and Shakespeare studies for many years. To date he has had published Communicating in English, an English Language textbook, as well as eleven historical novels: "Gunpowder, Treason & Plot", "Of Plots & Passions", "Tolpuddle" and "Of Guns & Mules," "Sail Away from Botany Bay," "Arrows Over Agincourt," "Of Guns, Revenge & Hope," "Marlowe: Soul'd to the Devil," "Will Shakespeare: Where Was He?" "The Man Who Would be Shakespeare - The Enigmatic Life of William Henry-Ireland," and "Will the Real William Shakespeare Please Step Forward?"
He is also a published (USA) and exhibited (UK & Jerusalem) photographer. He plays the clarinet (badly) and is a committee member of the local History Society. He is also the Chairman of the local Shakespeare Society and a regular contributor to "Forum," a magazine for English teachers, and "Skirmish," a military history journal. He has now finished writing Anne of Cleves: Henry's Luckiest Wife - a novel about King Henry VIII's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, the wife who outlived all of Henry VIII's five other wives as well as the king himself. This is to be published soon by GMTA of North Carolina, USA in a few months.
David Lawrence-Young is married and has three children, a fourteen year old SUV and a bicycle.
If you wish to buy any of the books on this site, either contact the publisher on the LINKS page or write directly to the author at dlwhy08@gmail.com for a signed copy.
Thank you.
See FORTHCOMING BOOKS for his latest news re. publishing!
He is also a published (USA) and exhibited (UK & Jerusalem) photographer. He plays the clarinet (badly) and is a committee member of the local History Society. He is also the Chairman of the local Shakespeare Society and a regular contributor to "Forum," a magazine for English teachers, and "Skirmish," a military history journal. He has now finished writing Anne of Cleves: Henry's Luckiest Wife - a novel about King Henry VIII's fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, the wife who outlived all of Henry VIII's five other wives as well as the king himself. This is to be published soon by GMTA of North Carolina, USA in a few months.
David Lawrence-Young is married and has three children, a fourteen year old SUV and a bicycle.
If you wish to buy any of the books on this site, either contact the publisher on the LINKS page or write directly to the author at dlwhy08@gmail.com for a signed copy.
Thank you.
See FORTHCOMING BOOKS for his latest news re. publishing!
