A Blackfriars mystery -- An education. A radical beginning ; The female university ; Monstrous regiments ; The ambassado
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English Pages xvi, 502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm Year 2015
Table of contents :
A Blackfriars mystery --
An education. A radical beginning
The female university
Monstrous regiments
The ambassador's wife
A widow's bed --
Parliament woman. The War of Admonition
Lady Russell
Meet the neighbours
The widow and the necromancer --
Turf wars. The Arden Trail
The Queen's soldier
Closing ranks
Sheriff and bailiff of the manor --
The battle for Blackfriars. Building ambitions
Shakespeare and Essex
Detective Dowager
'my war between mine own flesh and blood'
Shakespeare's Nemesis
In the name of love --
The birth of the Globe. Aftermath
'this distracted Globe'
Wedding belles and rebels
'I'll be revenged ... '
'from the stage to the State' --
Shakespeare's Countess. The last stand for Donnington
All's well that ends well --
Afterlife of a murderess.