Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History

Author:   Lytton Strachey ,  Strachey
Publisher:   Houghton Mifflin
ISBN:  

9780156027618


Pages:   312
Publication Date:   01 November 2002
Format:   Paperback
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Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History


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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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Author:   Lytton Strachey ,  Strachey
Publisher:   Houghton Mifflin
Imprint:   Houghton Mifflin
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 21.10cm
Weight:   0.399kg
ISBN:  

9780156027618


ISBN 10:   0156027615
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   01 November 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Lytton Strachey (1880-1932), among the most famous writers of his time, was a member of the Bloomsbury group and the author of a number of biographies. His Eminent Victorians, published in 1918, inaugurated a new style of biography distinguished by irony, wit, irreverence, and elegance of language. He is also the author of Elizabeth and Essex, Biographical Essays, and Literary Essays.

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