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Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe

Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe - Paperback

by Chris Laoutaris
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Availability:In StockContributor:Chris LaoutarisPublish date:2019-08-28Pages:528
Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781681771410ISBN-10:1681771411UPC:9781681771410Book Category:History, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Europe, Theater, ModernBook Topic:Renaissance, History & Criticism, 17th CenturySize:8.60 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCB55S72D3

In November 1596, a woman signed a document that would nearly destroy the career of William Shakespeare . . .

Who was this figure who played such an instrumental role in Shakespeare's life? Never far from controversy when she was alive, Lady 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 Russell's extraordinary life made her one of the most formidable women of the Renaissance. And, in November 1596, she became the leader of a movement aimed at destroying William Shakespeare's theatrical troupe--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.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Pegasus BooksISBN-13:9781681771410ISBN-10:1681771411UPC:9781681771410Book Category:History, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Europe, Theater, ModernBook Topic:Renaissance, History & Criticism, 17th CenturySize:8.60 x 5.40 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.1508Product ID:SCB55S72D3
Laoutaris, Chris: - Dr. Chris Laoutaris is a Lecturer and Birmingham Fellow at The Shakespeare Institute in Shakespeare's birthplace of Stratford-Upon-Avon. As well as being recently commissioned as a contributor to Cambridge University's Cambridge Guide to Shakespeare's First Folio, Laoutaris has written for the Financial Times and Sunday Express. He is currently working on a project for the Shakespeare Institute called Team Shakespeare: The Men who Created the Shakespeare Legacy
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