The Elizabethans
/ A.N. Wilson
- 1st American ed
- New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2012.
- xiii, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"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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Elizabeth I , Queen of England , 1533-1603
Great Britain---History---Elizabeth, 1558-1603 Great Britain----Civilization----16th century