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. (only One Small Stamp On Inside Page).

Publishers Description: In 1596, Shakespeare and his company prepared to occupy a new theatre in Blackfriars. For one local resident, the formidable Dowager Countess Russell, it was a case of there goes the neighbourhood. Against a backdrop of Elizabethan intrigue, Chris Laoutaris tour de force of historical detection charts for the first time the life of this arch-schemer, secret service agent and early champion of womens rights, and reveals how her determined campaign to thwart the actors almost destroyed Shakespeares career.

ISBN: 9781905490967