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QUEEN ELIZABETH’S brilliant, dashing, flamboyant, exuberant, irrepressible, impetuous, sometimes wayward, oftentimes eccentric, Timon-generous, cousin-courtier-poet-scholar-dramatist, spear-shaking champion of England — THE creative force behind the Shakespeare canon. The anomalous circumstances of the Queen’s ranking peer and Lord Great Chamberlain serving as dramatist, producer, director and sustaining patron of her theatrical activities was camouflaged under the nominal patronage and office of "Lord Chamberlain of the Household." |