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Justice Silence, now blind, wits wandering a little and very old, is visited by Sir John Falstaff's page, now a man, and asked for news of Francis Feeble, the woman's tailor, once unfairly conscripted for the army during rebellion
Carr contributed an essay to this collection of original stories based on William Shakespeare.
(Last updated on 11/2/2021)
In: Shakespeare Stories
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, London
Year: 1982
ISBN: 0-241-10879-9
Size: 230 x 160 mm
Pagination: pp 1239
Binding: brown cloth with title, editor and publisher's logo in gold on spine
Illustrations: Robin Jacques
Editor: Giles Gordon
Jacket design: Robin Jacques
Printed by: Richard Clay (The Chaucer Press) Ltd, Bungay, Suffolk
Content: Carr provided a story between pages 82-90. The other contributors include Angela Carter, Salman Rushdie, Kingsley Amis, Paul Bailey, William Boyd, Emma Tennant, and Robert Nye, among others.
Notes: Carr wrote in an inscription in a copy dated 1987:
I believed that our terms of reference were to begin before W.S. started or to go on after he left off. Later I was told this was not so . . . Ah well.
Front panel and spine of dust jacket