![]() Will harmony find a way to win out? Or will sterile silence prevail? Sent into an inebriate tailspin by these woes, Christian looks for solace to his court musicians -Įspecially one angelic English lutenist, Peter Claire, who dares not speak of his own romantic frustrations to such a lovelorn king. Has turned into a gold-hoarding miser who wouldn't dream of helping her son out of his financial difficulties. As for Christian's aging mother, Queen Sofie, she ![]() His second wife, Kirsten Munk, openly despises him and is having an affair with a German count. ![]() King Christian IV's treasury is depleted and his latest moneymaking schemes have come to naught. Skinny on what was going down at Elsinore a few centuries earlier - but things are still pretty rotten in the state of Denmark. Ose Tremain's new novel takes place in and around Copenhagen in the early 17th century, a good three decades after Shakespeare provided the
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