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The Elizabethan spymaster behind the modern surveillance state by Stephanie Merritt

Anders Lustgarten's new play, The Secret Theatre, taps into our current climate of fear by shining a light on Sir Francis Walsingham, the original CEngland is ruled by a beleaguered woman trying to hold together a fractured country while looking over her shoulder for conspirators waiting to stab her in the back. She lives in fear of a younger, Scottish female rival who might prove more popular with the populace. Peop…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM on November 27, 2017

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