TY - BOOK AU - Laoutaris,Chris TI - Shakespeare and the Countess: the battle that gave birth to the Globe SN - 9781905490967 AV - DA358 U1 - 942.055 23 PY - 2014/// CY - London PB - Fig Tree KW - Russell, Elizabeth Cooke Hoby KW - Shakespeare, William, N1 - Includes bibliographies and index N2 - In November 1596 a woman signed a document which would destroy the career of William Shakespeare Who was the woman who played such an instrumental, yet little known, role in Shakespeare's life? Never far from controversy when she was alive - she sparked numerous riots and indulged in acts of bribery, breaking-and-entering, and kidnapping ER -