The assassination of Shakespeare's patron : investigating the death of the fifth Earl of Derby /
Daugherty, Leo.
Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The traditional story, the revisionist story, and the story -- And for the golden crown award, the winner is -- Richard Hesketh and other spies -- On the road with Hesketh and Baylie -- The fatal meeting -- Brewerton Green -- Hesketh's arrest, interrogation, arraignment, and hanging -- Queer Street -- Insults and injuries -- "Bearing himself so haughtily against my Lord of Essex" -- Ferdinando, Essex, and the throne -- The day after April Fool's Day -- Passion, poison, and putrefaction -- The documents in the case -- "This for poison" -- This for witchcraft: "touching the death of the Earl of Derby" -- This for public consumption -- Rounding up the (highly un)usual suspects -- The other -- The missing gentleman waiter -- Epilogue: on the Fleet Prison night-watch with John Golborne.
Derby, Ferdinando Stanley Earl of, approximately 1559-1594
Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616.
Catholic Church
Conspiracies
Literary patrons