Nicholas Bracewell and the Westfield Men sail for Denmark with their widowed patron, Lord Westfield, who has been enticed into marriage with Sigbrit Olsen, and soon find themselves embroiled in political intrigue and religious dissension.
Sir Robert Carey, Deputy Warden of the English West March in sixteenth-century Scotland, finds himself on the brink of treason when his search for the thieves who raided his supply of high-quality weapons leads him into the raucous court of King James VI.
Sent by a rival company to nick William Shakespeare's "Hamlet," an orphan called Widge is welcomed warmly by the Globe group and finds himself an actor and writer with them out on the road when the London theaters are closed at the threat of plague.
In the court of Queen Elizabeth I in 1582, Eleanor Hutton, an alchemist's daughter, and William Lacey, the financially ruined Earl of Dorset, fall in love just as Will is supposed to be courting a rich and socially acceptable heiress.
A biography of England's Queen Elizabeth I, providing insight into the childhood events that shaped the woman she became, examining the conflicts and triumphs of her forty-five-year reign from 1558 to 1603, and discussing aspects of her personal life.
