SHAKESPEARE'S VENGEANCE: Every Role Comes With a Price

THERE ARE PERFORMANCES YOU LEAVE.AND OTHERS THAT REFUSE TO LET YOU GO.New York, 1929. Beneath the glitter of Prohibition, a secret society of actors gathers to perform-no audience, no applause, only devotion.Thomas Barese never intended to return to the stage. But when a figure from his past draws him back, he is pulled into a private ritual: an enactment of Romeo and Juliet where roles are assigned without warning-and breaking character is unthinkable.The script is not a guide, but law.Shakespeare is not interpreted. He is enforced.As the performance deepens, past wounds resurface, and the boundary between self and role begins to erode. Haunted by the disappearance of a former member, and by a secret of his own, Thomas enters a world where the stage exerts an unyielding power.A slow-burning literary noir shaped by Shakespearean tragedy, Shakespeare's Vengeance explores the moment a role overtakes the one who plays it, and the perilous line where devotion slips into illusion, and illusion into something far more dangerous. A haunting fusion of historical atmosphere and psychological tension.- Reader's Favorite,

Pagina's: 219, Paperback, New Folio Press