Product Description
by Steve Weitzenkorn (Author)
Brimming with intrigue, SHAKESPEARE'S CONSPIRATOR shatters beliefs about the world's greatest playwright. Did he really write the thirty-seven plays credited to him? ---It's 1587. Shakespeare is struggling to launch his career. Finally he persuades James Burbage, a theater owner, to stage Henry VI. He's the same proprietor who refused to look at Amelia Bassano's comedic script. Infuriated after being blocked at every turn, she reluctantly seals a secret pact with Shakespeare. So begins a fiery relationship that triggers suspicions, plots to expose them, and grave dangers.Craving recognition and ways to break through, Amelia pursues illicit relationships with Elizabethan luminaries while becoming a controversial advocate for women. Scandals and complications follow as her life takes dreadful turns. When Shakespeare pressures her to write a soul-tormenting script, she fears being exposed as a hidden Jew, a felony in Elizabethan England. Undeterred, she embeds hints to her authorship and true identity in Shakespeare's plays. But not everyone is deceived. In this captivating story, the web of secrets and trail of clues reveals a perilous and cloaked Shakespearean world.
Author Biography
Most of Steve's career has been devoted to helping organizations and the people working within them achieve greater levels of success. As a learning innovator, leadership development advisor, and strategy facilitator, he has worked with companies, educational institutions, and nonprofits throughout North America and in Europe and China. Steve is also co-author of Find Fulfill Flourish, a self-help guide for discovering and formulating a personal purpose, then charting a meaningful and fulfilling life. It applies many of the principles companies use in creating their missions, visions, and values, and then living up to them. Shakespeare's Conspirator was inspired by intriguing comments made by a tour guide in at Shakespeare's home in Stratford-upon-Avon and then reading about Amelia Bassano Lanyer in other publications. Steve lives with his wife in Scottsdale, Arizona.
