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    Shoemaker's Holiday
    Shoemaker's Holiday
    Shoemaker's Holiday
    Audiobook2 hours

    Shoemaker's Holiday

    Written by Thomas Dekker

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    About this audiobook

    The Shoemaker's Holiday is an Elizabethan play written by Thomas Dekker. It was first performed in 1599 by the Admiral's Men. It falls into the sub-genre of city comedy (depicting ordinary London life).

    Aristocrat Rowland Lacy falls in love with middle class girl Rose Oateley, but Rose's father and Lacy's uncle refuse to approve the match because of the class difference and Rowland's spendthrift lifestyle. Rowland is told to redeem himself by joining the army fighting in France. To avoid going, he persuades someone else to take his place and disguises himself as a Dutch shoemaker, Hans. He becomes an apprentice of eccentric but hard-working tradesman, Simon Eyre, and negotiates a business deal that bags his employer thousands of pounds. Eyre is made Sheriff of London and later, Lord Mayor.

    Meanwhile, another of Eyre's employees, Ralph, leaves for the French wars. He returns to find that his wife, Jane, has been poached by a rich dandy, Hammon. (Wikipedia and Rob Board)

    Cast
    Narrator: Kristin Gjerløw
    Rowland Lacy, otherwise Hans: Rob Board
    Simon Eyre: Peter Tucker
    Margery: Availle
    Rodger: ToddHW
    Firk: Richard Shipp
    Ralph: Negatron
    Jane: Elizabeth Klett
    Sir Roger Oateley: Bruce Pirie
    Rose: Beth Thomas
    Sybil: Mary Kay
    Sir Hugh Lacy: davidpr
    Dodger: Hannoria
    Master Hammon: Hamlet
    Serving man, and those of Hammon's side: Sandra Schmit
    A boy: Stoofy
    Master Warner: David Olson
    A prentice: Joseph Tabler
    The King: Andrew Utley
    The Earl of Cornwell, and a nobleman: David Olson
    Askew: Lydia
    Lovell: MaryAnn
    A Dutch skipper: Anna Simon
    Master Scott: Newgatenovelist
    Three Men's Songs: Ezwa
    Audio edited by: Rob Board
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
    Shoemaker's Holiday
    Author

    Thomas Dekker

    Thomas Dekker is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose talent on the bike quickly took him to the top of the sport. He raced for The Netherlands in the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, won two Dutch National Time Trial Championships, and captured victories in the 2006 Tirreno-Adriatico and the 2007 Tour of Romandie. He rode for the Dutch Rabobank superteam and then Silence-Lotto before a retroactively tested sample returned positive for EPO. In 2009, Dekker was suspended for two years for the drug violation, and it was later confirmed during Operaction Puerto that Dekker was among the clients of Spanish doctor Eufemiano Fuentes. After his suspension, Dekker joined the American Garmin Development Team and rode for Garmin-Barracuda from 2012-2014. Dekker claims to have ridden clean for Jonathan Vaughters and he became a popular rider in the American peloton. He retired after an attempt on the World Hour Record in 2015.

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