Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
by Strachey, Lytton
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good + +/No Jacket
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Synopsis
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 attraction 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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- Bookseller
- West Side Book Shop, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9491
- Title
- Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History
- Author
- Strachey, Lytton
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good + +
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Chatto & Windus
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1928
- Size
- Octavo
- Keywords
- BRITISH HISTORY 16TH-CENTURY ENGLAND BIOGRAPHY ISTORY AND CRITICISM
- Bookseller catalogs
- BRITISH HISTORY;
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