
Elizabeth And Essex: A Tragic History
One of the most famous and baffling romances in history-between Elizabeth I, Queen of England and Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex-began in May of 1587, when she was fifty-three and he was just shy of twenty. Their relationship continued until 1601, when the Earl of Essex was beheaded for treason. And, in a succession of brilliant scenes, Strachey portrays the Queen's and the Earl's compelling attra...
Series: Harvest Book
Paperback: 312 pages
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin (November 4, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0156027615
ISBN-13: 978-0156027618
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.8 x 8.5 inches
Amazon Rank: 2034089
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tion for on another, their impassioned disagreements, and their mutual contest for power, which led to a final, tragic confrontation. Here we also have superb portraits of influential people of the time: Francis Bacon, Robert Cecil, Walter Raleigh, and other figures of the court who struggled to assert themselves in a kingdom that was primarily defined by her sovereign, and so now seen through history's lens as Elizabethan England.
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