A Common Playhouse
Charles Nicholl: The Globe Theatre, 8 January 2015
Shakespeare and the Countess: The Battle That Gave Birth to the Globe
by Chris Laoutaris.
Fig Tree, 528 pp., £20, April 2015,978 1 905490 96 7 Show More
by Chris Laoutaris.
Fig Tree, 528 pp., £20, April 2015,
“... and her political and dynastic connections. Her father, Sir Anthony Cooke, had been tutor to Edward VI; her eldest sister, Mildred, was married to the all-powerful Lord Treasurer, Burghley; another sister, Anne, was the wife of Sir Nicholas Bacon, the Lord Keeper. Elizabeth was thus aunt to two of Shakespeare’s most influential contemporaries, Sir ... ”