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Bezig met laden... Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle that Gave Birth to the Globedoor Chris Laoutaris
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. An impressive piece of scholarship that has resulted in one of the most frustrating biographies I’ve read. As a biography of the Puritan self-styled Dowager Countess (she had no legal right to the title) Elizabeth Russell this could have been an insightful study of a powerful intellectual woman embroiled in Tudor politics. Instead it plays on the fact that she once sued William Shakespeare (a very minor part of her life) and tries to tie everything back to that event. The book is overloaded with the research and the central narrative gets lost in too many names, tangential speculation, ham-fisted cliched foreshadowing, and irrelevant details. #2020reads #books #review ( ) The title is actually misleading, Shakespeare only makes a cameo appearance at the end of the book, it is really the life story of the Dowager Countess Elizabeth Russell, a remarkable woman in a era of remarkable women. Well-educated, avowedly Puritan, fiercely determined to advance her family, she ran foul of the Bard when she successfully petitioned to have the Blackfriars theatre adjacent to her London home closed, forcing Shakespeare and co. to look further afield. The end result was the Globe theatre, and the rest is history. But Russell's story itself is fascinating, replete with the most powerful figures in Tudor society. Essex, Cecil, Walsingham, and many others, she knew them all and was related to many. While the book's concentration on minute details and historical exactness can be hard-going, it is always interesting. Not an exciting read, but an absorbing one. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"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 Shakespeare's life? Never far from controversy when she was alive--she sparked numerous 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 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 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."--Dust jacket. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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