This unedifying duel has been dealt with in a previous chapter of the present work, and need not detain us here. A brief, bitter literary feud developed between Marston and Jonson—part of “the war of the theatres.” In Poetaster (produced 1601) Jonson depicted Marston as Crispinus, a character with red hair and small legs who was given a pill that forced him to disgorge a pretentious vocabulary. The Long War. Shakespeare’s parents had eight children, five of whom survived to adulthood. John Shakespeare is buried in Stratford. 1594 – Start of the Nine Years War in Ireland. At 40 pages, barely ten written by Mark Twain, 1601 Conversation as it was by the Social Fireside in the Time of the Tudors, is barely a pamphlet. 1593 – All London theatres closed because of the Plague. In early 1601 the Government looked with extreme nervousness at opinion in the capital, from which audiences at the Globe were drawn. 1601: Sept. 8. The turning point in the war came when, on April 30, 1625, a fleet arrived from the 34 Spanish and 22 Portuguese ships with 12,500 soldiers on board. The Theatre had been cleverly constructed by James Burbage using timber frames and pegs in case of such need. 1603 – Queen Elizabeth dies of blood poisoning. William Shakespeare’s parents were John and Mary Shakespeare – respectable, middle-class parents who lived in the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire. Portuguese settlers launched a guerrilla war … The imperial army took Győr in 1598 and Székesfehérvár in 1601; the Turkish army Nagykanizsa in 1600 and Székesfehérvárin in 1602. It was on the printed page, not on the stage, that the Government saw incendiary potential. The Introduction is perhaps a page or two too long but contains a few funny stories and establish the case for this book as being true Mark Twain humor. 1601 – Elizabeth invokes the “poor law” so that parishes provide for their poor. The Earl of Essex leads a revolt against Queen Elizabeth. Ottoman tacticians complained that they were outgunned, but they were also better organised and did not have to rely on Habsburgs. Its parts were reused at Bankside and a new theatre built there, reopening as the Globe. Reference is made to Shakespeare in The Returne from Parnassus (Part 1). Essex and the Earl of Southampton are tried: Essex is executed, Southampton reprieved. After 1597, initial Ottoman victory looked more like stalemate. 1602 – Earl of Essex tries to lead a revolt against Elizabeth. It was a twenty-sided polygonal open-air building with a diameter of around twenty-four to thirty metres, making it similar but larger than The Rose. They defeated Salvador and began to conquer the Portuguese possessions captured by the Dutch. Yet if the theatre had the ‘power to subvert’, the regime, at that perilous moment, was oblivious to it. William was the third child and their first son.