GO BACK THROUGH THE HISTORICAL records and it can be tough to access the lives of those who, in their own time, were considered unimportant. Yet, says Mat Osman, British history is full of people who “were kind of kept down but were incredibly ambitious and wanted to make their voices heard”.
He’s talking about the kinds of characters who inhabit his second novel , a tale of Elizabethan England centred on the world of child actors who live and work in Blackfriars. The theatre was the “Netflix of its
