The Elizabethans / A.N. Wilson

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2012.Edition: 1st American edDescription: xiii, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780374147440
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 942.05 WIL
LOC classification:
  • DA355 .W496 2012
Contents:
The early reign. The difficulty ; The New World ; Ceremonial : twixt earnest and twixt game ; Men in power ; Which Church? ; The new learning ; A library at Mortlake ; The Northern Rebellion -- 1570s. St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ; Elizabethan women ; Histories ; Kenilworth ; Ireland ; Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation ; A frog he would a-wooing go -- 1580s. Religious dissent ; Sir Philip Sidney ; Hakluyt and empire ; The Scottish queen ; The Armada. ; London and theatre ; Marprelate and Hooker -- The close of the reign. A hive for bees ; Sex and the city ; The occult philosophy ; My America ; Tyrone ; Essex and the end ; Hamlet : one through two.
Summary: In this Elizabethan exploration, Wilson follows the stories of privateer Francis Drake, political intriguers like William Cecil and Francis Walsingham; and Renaissance literary geniuses from Sir Philip Sidney to Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.
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Libro - Monografía Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. 942.05 WIL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 066871

"Originally published in 2011 by Hutchinson, Great Britain."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 395-408) and index.

The early reign. The difficulty ; The New World ; Ceremonial : twixt earnest and twixt game ; Men in power ; Which Church? ; The new learning ; A library at Mortlake ; The Northern Rebellion -- 1570s. St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ; Elizabethan women ; Histories ; Kenilworth ; Ireland ; Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation ; A frog he would a-wooing go -- 1580s. Religious dissent ; Sir Philip Sidney ; Hakluyt and empire ; The Scottish queen ; The Armada. ; London and theatre ; Marprelate and Hooker -- The close of the reign. A hive for bees ; Sex and the city ; The occult philosophy ; My America ; Tyrone ; Essex and the end ; Hamlet : one through two.

In this Elizabethan exploration, Wilson follows the stories of privateer Francis Drake, political intriguers like William Cecil and Francis Walsingham; and Renaissance literary geniuses from Sir Philip Sidney to Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.

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