Amelia Bassano Lanier The Woman Behind Shakepeare's Plays?
by
John Hudson
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Amelia Bassano was born in 1569 into a family of Venetian Jews who were court musicians to Queen Elizabeth I. At about the age of thirteen, she became mistress to the fiftysix-year-old Lord Hunsdon, Henry VIII’s reputed son by Mary Boleyn. As Lord Chamberlain, Hunsdon was in charge of the English...