The Lost Letters are available in print, e-book, and audiobook formats, including illustrations that will enhance your understanding of the content of the letters and background into that period of history. To give readers more detailed versions in color of the book’s illustrations and to give listeners to the audiobook access to these photos, maps, and other reference materials, they are provided here.
Terry Tamminen as William Shakespeare in his 1989 one- man play
“Will Power,” wherein he portrayed the Bard reminiscing about his life in conversation with the audience. xvi
A typical example of 16 th century handwriting: the last page of William Shakespeare’s Last Will and Testament. xxiv
Map of the Americas by Willem Blaeu circa 1600, similar to the one Shakespeare stole in Letter Three. 74
Shakspear: Shakespeare’s plays and first biography in a book given to the author by the mysterious Miss B. 150
The Tabard Inn, as it probably appeared to Shakespeare in 1586 when he first stayed there as described in Letter Seven. 157
A baptism in the first English colony at Roanoke, Virginia, which Shakespeare tried to join (later called the “lost” colony because all of the settlers vanished). 247
Queen Elizabeth at Tilbury addressing the troops with the Spanish “Armada invincible” burning behind her in their distinctive crescent formation. 342
St. Giles Church in Cripplegate, London today, where Shakespeare and his lover, Rosalind Munday shared secrets and where he buried his nephew in 1607. 380
Remnants of the London Wall near the Cripplegate entrance to the City that was used by Shakespeare. 381