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Elizabeth and Leicester
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Sarah Gristwood |
Though the story has been told on film—and whispered in historic gossip—this is the first book in almost fifty years to solely explore the great queen's attachment to her beloved Robert Dudley, the E… |
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Shakespeare's lost kingdom
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Charles Beauclerk |
It is perhaps the greatest story never told: the truth behind the most enduring works of literature in the English language, perhaps in any language. Who was the man behind Hamlet, King Lear, and the… |
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The Elizabethans
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A. N. Wilson |
With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study of The Victorians, A.N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It was a time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation an… |
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The Queen's agent
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J. P. D. Cooper |
Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. Spain plotted an invasion, bu… |
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Elizabethan Society
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Derek Wilson |
The reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603) marked a golden age in English history. There was a musical and literary renaissance, most famously and enduringly in the form of the plays of Shakespeare (… |
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The first Elizabeth
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Carolly Erickson |
A portrait of the Tudor queen and her times attempts to give an accurate portrayal of Elizabeth's complex personality |
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The watchers
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Stephen Alford |
A gripping account of the unflagging battle by spies, code breakers, ambassadors and confidence-men who sought to protect Elizabeth I from the most powerful rulers of Europe who conspired to destroy … |
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Elizabeth I and her circle
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Susan Doran |
This is the story of Elizabeth I's inner circle and the crucial human relationships which lay at the heart of her personal and political life. Using a wide range of original sources--including privat… |
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The Elizabethans
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A. N. Wilson |
With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study of The Victorians, A.N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It was a time of exceptional creativity, wealth, creation, … |
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Shakespeare's restless world
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Neil MacGregor |
In this work of historical reconstruction Neil MacGregor and his team at the British Museum, working together in a landmark collaboration with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC, bring us twen… |
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The Pirate Queen
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Susan Ronald |
Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, Elizabeth I was feared and admired by her enemies. Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power. Her vi… |
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The birth of the Elizabethan Age
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Jones, Norman L. |
Norman Jones' ambitious and imaginative account charts both the daily experiences and the large historical events that shaped life in the 1560s. When Queen Elizabeth came to the throne, her subjects … |
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The twilight lords
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Richard J. Berleth |
"A chronicle of the ferocious twenty-year struggle between the English monarch and the feudal lords of Ireland, The Twilight Lords describes the first authentic colonial venture in English history, a… |
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My Heart Is My Own
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John Guy |
This book is a dramatic reinterpretation of the life of Mary, Queen of Scots. Crowned Queen of Scotland at nine months of age, and Queen of France at 16, at 18 Mary ascended the throne that was her b… |
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Arbella
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Sarah Gristwood |
An extraordinary life lost in history: the compelling biography of Arbella Stuart spans both Tudor and Stuart courts and encompasses espionage, a clandestine marriage, imprisonment and eventual death… |
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Annales rerum Anglicarum et Hibernicarum regnante Elizabetha
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William Camden |
661 p. 29 cm |
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