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Historical person
Christian IV was king of Denmark and Norway from 1588 to 1648 and one of the longest-reigning monarchs in Scandinavian history. He promoted trade, urban development, naval power and ambitious building projects.
His intervention in the Thirty Years’ War ended in defeat, and later wars with Sweden weakened Danish influence. Even so, his energetic rule left a lasting architectural and cultural imprint on Copenhagen and other parts of his kingdoms.
In Steven Veerapen’s Assassination, England is still living with the political consequences of the Gunpowder Plot when Christian IV of Denmark visits his brother-in-law James I. In Edward Marston’s The Princess of Denmark, One of the plays they select is The Princess of Denmark—and it will prove a disastrous choice.
Series
The Spycatcher trilogy follows Ned Savage, a fictional thief recruited into the intelligence world of Robert Cecil during the transfer from Tudor to Stuart rule. Succession centres on Elizabeth I’s death and James VI’s accession in 1603; Coronation uses the plague-stricken early Jacobean capital; and Assassination is set…
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The Nicholas Bracewell mysteries centre on Westfield’s Men, a fictional Elizabethan theatre company managed behind the scenes by its resourceful bookholder. Bracewell protects scripts, organises tours, settles disputes and solves murders that threaten the players, their patrons and the precarious business of performance. The sixteen novels move through…
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