SuitabookFaith under pressure
Susanna lives amid underground Catholic practice, religious restrictions and danger to people who harbour outlawed priests.
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Michael J. Ortiz - Author
This is an eventful historical adventure combining religious secrecy, family loss, theatre and Shakespearean surroundings. It offers a young protagonist facing danger and moral pressure, while presenting Elizabethan England as both culturally vibrant and marked by persecution.
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Sign in for personalised guidanceThis is an eventful historical adventure combining religious secrecy, family loss, theatre and Shakespearean surroundings. It offers a young protagonist facing danger and moral pressure, while presenting Elizabethan England as both culturally vibrant and marked by persecution.
Susanna lives amid underground Catholic practice, religious restrictions and danger to people who harbour outlawed priests.
Susanna’s family is affected by Hamnet’s death from plague, and Susanna reflects on mortality during a visit with Shakespeare to a charnel house.
Susanna helps stage an allegorical play that lampoons Queen Elizabeth I, provoking a near riot among loyal audience members.
Content needing attention includes a widow drowning for alleged witchcraft, a sibling’s death from plague, execution by hanging and disembowelment, secret worship, religious persecution, grief and a near riot.
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