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Shakespeare’s Boy Player Alexander Cooke
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Shakespeare’s Boy Player Alexander Cooke

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In Shakespeare’s time, women onstage were played by boys, and for those boy players, fame could be fleeting. Nicole Galland’s novel Boy follows Alexander “Sander” Cooke, a real-life actor in Shakespeare’s company.