As Luck Would Have It by Jacobi, Derek -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Dedication Contents The Seven Ages Prologue: The Boy with the veil AGE I INFANT, MEWLING

1 The front room 2 Our war 3 The return of Alfred Jacobi 4 The Christmas Conned ’em 5 Mum 6 Dad

AGE II SHINING MORNING FACE

7 ‘With one little touch of her hand’ 8 Confinement 9 East London boy 10 My teachers 11 Intimations of immortality 12 The lads of life 13 The passport prince 14 Cloud-capped towers

AGE III SIGHING LIKE FURNACE

15 First term, first love 16 The Marlowe Society 17 Princes and puppets 18 ‘Honorificabilitudinitatibus’ 19 Encounters with a colossus 20 The Brummie Beast

AGE IV SEEKING THE BUBBLE AGE REPUTATION

21 A shameful episode 22 ‘I thought Hamlet looked a bit down at the wedding’ 23 Sir 24 Clay feet and other parts 25 Giving away Michael York 26 Leading in the dark 27 The Idiot

AGE V AND THEN THE JUSTICE

28 The intangible ‘it’ 29 From Kaiser to Emperor 30 ‘Hamlet, played by Derek “I, Claudius” Jacobi’ 31 Enter Richard II 32 A marriage proposal 33 Terrible news 34 So we’ll go no more a-roving

AGE VI A WORLD TOO WIDE

35 Ultimate nightmare 36 The RSC 37 Proboscis magnifica 38 The Jacobi Cadets 39 Two broken codes for the price of one 40 Life among the great and good

AGE VII STRANGE EVENTFUL HISTORY

41 My new family 42 The summons 43 Walks on the dark side 44 Russell Crowe’s bum 45 Shakespeare’s end-games 46 Aren’t we all?

Picture Section Afterword and Acknowledgements Copyright About the Publisher