LONDON — Emma Rice, whose short stint as the artistic director of Shakespeare’s Globe ended with a spat with the board and a sudden departure from the role, wrote a spirited letter to her successor that was posted to the theater’s website this week.

In the letter, addressed to the as-yet-unnamed “future artistic director” of the theater, Ms. Rice described the position as the “most precious of jobs,” and suggested that her decision to leave resulted from disagreements with the theater’s board. “As important and beloved as the Globe is to me, the Board did not love and respect me back,” she wrote, adding: “They began to talk of a new set of rules that I did not sign up to and could not stand by. Nothing is worth giving away my artistic freedom for — it has been too hard fought for.”

Ms. Rice, who came to the Globe from the immersive theater company Kneehigh, swan-dived into her role in the spring of 2016, programming several tweaked updates of Shakespeare’s plays, including “Imogen,” a version of “Cymbeline” that reimagined the work as a female-driven play; and a production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” starring the cabaret star Meow Meow. Before she took the job at the Globe, Ms. Rice had drawn headlines for comments including an oft-circulated statement that she became “very sleepy” when trying to read Shakespeare’s plays.