{"product_id":"the-vavasour-macbeth-9781642931310","title":"The Vavasour Macbeth","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Bart Casey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Post Hill Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Post Hill Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Thrillers - Historical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBuried Shakespearean treasure from an ancestor's tomb brings a disillusioned BBC reporter home to solve her father's murder and restart her life with the man who has always loved her.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Margaret Hamilton's father rescues Elizabethan manuscripts from a flooded tomb, he asks his daughter's former fiancé Stephen to help decipher them, bringing the couple back together again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt first, the documents only seem to resurrect Anne Vavasour's remarkable true story: how she came to Queen Elizabeth's court as a sixteen-year-old Maid of Honour; was seduced by the Earl of Oxford; delivered a babe at court in the attending maidens' chamber; was sent to the Tower; yet later flourished for twenty years as the mistress of the wealthy widower Sir Henry Lee, Elizabeth's champion at the joust (and rumored half-brother of the queen). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut when Margaret and Stephen uncover links between the buried papers and Shakespeare's \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e, ruthless art and antiquities thieves scheme to take the priceless papers at any cost. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBlending fiction with little-known facts from history and research, \u003ci\u003eThe Vavasour Macbeth\u003c\/i\u003e ranges from the Elizabethan and Jacobean courts to modern-day England, revealing many mysteries of ancient handwriting, manuscripts, and playmaking along the way. Not all facts taught in school about the Elizabethan era, Shakespeare, and \u003ci\u003eMacbeth\u003c\/i\u003e are proven, and you may be surprised to learn how many questions really do remain open and unsolved.","brand":"Post Hill Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45355409801367,"sku":"9781642931310","price":1123.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781642931310.webp?v=1769291379","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-vavasour-macbeth-9781642931310","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}