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Clare Jackson: Early Modern Diplomacy, 5 March 2026

Lying Abroad: Henry Wotton and the Invention of Diplomacy 
by Carol ChillingtonRutter.
Manchester, 313 pp., £20, February, 978 1 5261 7206 8
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... idly spent’ and his dictum that ‘he would rather live five May months than forty Decembers.’Carol ChillingtonRutter’s Lying Abroad opens with an aqueous image. Staring ‘down into the waters of a Venetian canal’, the author imagines a watery Wotton floating among forgotten ignoti: ‘faces from the past who ...

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Charles Nicholl: ‘The Shakespeare Circle’, 19 May 2016

The Shakespeare Circle: An Alternative Biography 
edited by Paul Edmondson and Stanley Wells.
Cambridge, 358 pp., £18.99, October 2015, 978 1 107 69909 0
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... to a French immigrant printer in the Blackfriars, Thomas Vautrollier. In her essay on Field, Carol ChillingtonRutter observes that printers’ and booksellers’ apprentices listed in the Stationers’ Register at this time came from ‘York, Wiltshire, Lincoln, Salop, Surrey [and] Flint’, and were sent ...

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