The Elizabethans

Wilson, A. N., 1950-

Book 2011

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 and political expansion.

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Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603

Great Britain Civilization 16th century

Great Britain History Elizabeth, 1558-1603

Great Britain Intellectual life 16th century

Queens Great Britain Biography

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ISBN:

9780374147440
9780091931513
0091931517

Description:

xii, 432 pages, 16 unnumbered pages plates : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents:

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

LCCN:

2011514785

Control Number:

880146

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