Elizabeth and Essex: a Tragic History
by Lytton Strachey
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0156283107
- ISBN 13
- 9780156283106
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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
- Endless Shores Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 65298
- Title
- Elizabeth and Essex: a Tragic History
- Author
- Lytton Strachey
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0156283107
- ISBN 13
- 9780156283106
- Publisher
- Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1996
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- History;
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