The Elizabethans / A.N. Wilson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wilson, A. N., 1950-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Elizabeth I, Queen of England, 1533-1603.

Elizabeth.

Great Britain--History--Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Civilization--16th century.

Physical Description:

xiii, 432 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st American ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012.

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

Tyrone

Essex and the end

Hamlet : one through two.

Notes:

"Originally published in 2011 by Hutchinson, Great Britain."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Beerman fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9780374147440 ;