Shakespeare And The Countess. The Battle That Gave Birth To The Globe

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Fig Tree
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2014
Edition: First Edition

Description: 502 pages. Ex-Library. (only one small stamp on inside page). Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: The colorful story of the creation of the Globe Theatreas a result of the dramatic confrontation between Lady Elizabeth Russell and William Shakespeare.In November 1596, a woman 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 Shakespeares life Never far from controversy when she was aliveshe sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of breaking-and-entering, bribery, blackmail, kidnapping and armed combatLady Elizabeth Russell, the self-styled Dowager Countess of Bedford, 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 Russells extraordinary life made her one of the most formidable women of the Renaissance. The daughter of King Edward VIs 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 William Shakespeares theatrical troupea plot that resulted in the closure of the Blackfriars Theatre but the construction, instead, of the Globe. Providing new pieces to this puzzle, Chris Laoutariss rousing history reveals for the first time this startling battle against Shakespeare and the Lord Chamberlains Men.

ISBN: 9781905490967