TITLE:
1603 : the death of Queen Elizabeth, the return of the Black Plague, the rise of Shakespeare, piracy, witchcraft, & the birth of the Stuart era / Christopher Lee.
Publication Date:
2003-2004
Publication Information:
New York : St. Martin's Press,
Edition:
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Description:
368 p. : ill.
Summary:
Diaries and notes written in 1603 describe how a resurgence of the plague killed nearly 40,000 people. Priests blamed the sins of the people for the pestilence, witches were strangled and burned and plotters strung up on gate tops. But not all was gloom and violence. From a ship's log we learn of the first precious cargoes of pepper arriving from the East Indies after the establishment of a new spice route; Sharkespeare was finishing Othello and Ben Jonson wrote furiously to please a nation thirsting for entertainment.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9780312321390
