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,
“... by Henry VIII in 1538, whereupon its five-acre precinct became a prime piece of Tudor real estate. Chris Laoutaris’s Shakespeare and the Countess gives a remarkably detailed account of its residents in the 1590s, some of them very distinguished, and of their efforts to exclude one who would become more distinguished than any of them. Blackfriars is an ... ”
