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Shakespeare: The World as StageEven the chair in which she normally sat was suspected at one point of having been dusted with infectious agents. When it was rumored that an Italian poisoner had joined her court, she had all her Italian servants dismissed. Eventually, trusting no one completely, she slept with an old sword beside her bed. Even while Elizabeth survived, the issue of her succession remained a national preoccupation throughout her reign-and thus through a good part of William ShakespeareБЂ™s life. As Frank Kermode has noted, a quarter of ShakespeareБЂ™s plays would be built around questions of royal succession-though speculating about Elizabeth БЂ™s successor was very much against the law. A Puritan parliamentarian named Peter Wentworth languished for ten years in the Tower of London simply for having raised the matter in an essay. Elizabeth was a fairly relaxed Protestant. She favored many customary Catholic rites (there would be no evensong in English churches now without her) and demanded little more than a token attachment to Anglicanism throughout much of her reign ...» |
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