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Historical person
1535–1594
Martin Frobisher was an English seafarer, privateer and explorer of the Elizabethan period. His voyages in search of a Northwest Passage and his service against the Spanish Armada placed him in the maritime expansion of Tudor England.
Rory Clements’s Traitor places Martin Frobisher within a narrative shaped by family, marriage and personal loyalty, political ambition and government, and military command and battlefield decision-making.
Historical context
Series
The John Shakespeare series follows an Elizabethan intelligencer working first for Francis Walsingham and later Robert Cecil. Murder investigations become inseparable from Catholic conspiracies, war with Spain, court faction and the developing machinery of state surveillance. Set between 1582 and the mid-1590s, the novels move through London, recusant…
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