Download PDF by Chris Laoutaris: Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to

By Chris Laoutaris

ISBN-10: 160598793X

ISBN-13: 9781605987934

The colourful tale of the production of the Globe Theatre—as because of the the dramatic disagreement among girl Elizabeth Russell and William Shakespeare.

In November 1596, a girl signed a rfile that will approximately smash the occupation of William Shakespeare . . .

Who was once this lady who performed such an instrumental, but little recognized, function in Shakespeare's existence? by no means faraway from controversy whilst she was once alive—she sparked a number of riots and indulged in acts of breaking-and-entering, bribery, blackmail, kidnapping and armed combat—Lady Elizabeth Russell, the self-styled Dowager Countess of Bedford, has been edited out of public reminiscence, but the chain of occasions she set in movement could make Shakespeare the mythical determine we know today.

Lady Elizabeth Russell’s amazing existence made her probably the most ambitious girls of the Renaissance. The daughter of King Edward VI’s coach, she blazed a path throughout Elizabethan England as an highbrow and radical Protestant. And, in November 1596, she turned the chief of a circulation aimed toward destroying William Shakespeare’s theatrical troupe—a plot that ended in the closure of the Blackfriars Theatre however the building, as a substitute, of the Globe.

Providing new items to this puzzle, Chris Laoutaris's rousing historical past finds for the 1st time this startling conflict opposed to Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlain's males.

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