Shakespeare and the Countess
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Shakespeare and the Countess

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Shakespeare and the Countess

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In November 1596, a countess signed a document that would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare. Who was this woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life? Never far from controversy when she was alive—she sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of bribery, breaking-and-entering, and kidnapping—Lady Elizabeth Russell has been edited out of public memory, yet the chain of events she set in motion would make Shakespeare the legendary figure we all know today. Lady Elizabeth Russell's extraordinary life made her one of the most formidable women of the Renaissance. The daughter of King Edward VI's tutor, she blazed a trail across Elizabethan England as an intellectual and radical Protestant. And, in November 1596, she became the leader of a movement aimed at destroying the career of William Shakespeare—a plot that resulted in the closure of the Blackfriars Theatre but the construction, instead, of the Globe. Providing new pieces to this puzzle, Chris Laoutaris's rousing history reveals for the first time this startling battle against Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's Men.

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Publisher
Pegasus Books
Year
2015
ISBN
9781605987934
Topic
History
Subtopic
British History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Contents
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Author’s Note
  6. Family Tree
  7. Prologue: A Blackfriars Mystery
  8. Part One – An Education
  9. Part Two – Parliament Woman
  10. Part Three – Turf Wars
  11. Part Four – The Battle for Blackfriars
  12. Part Five – The Birth of the Globe
  13. Part Six – Shakespeare’s Countess
  14. Epilogue: Afterlife of a Murderess
  15. Illustrations
  16. Notes
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Copyright