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Elizabeth
David Starkey
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Description for Elizabeth
paperback. Published to accompany a Channel 4 series, Starkey turns the paradox into a person. This new approach to the enigma of Elizabeth's character presents a retelling of her reign, her love for Robert Dudley, the tragi-comedy of her suitors, her epic struggles with Mary and Philip II and the final debacle of her relationship with Robert Devereux. Num Pages: 384 pages, Illustrations (some col.), ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3JB; BGH; BGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 128 x 25. Weight in Grams: 294.
'The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth' Evening Standard
A woman in a man's world, Queen Elizabeth I was to become England's most successful ruler.
Confident in her destiny, intensely intelligent, passionately sexual yet (she said) a virgin, Elizabeth's reign was characterised by a self-assurance unusual for the time. Finding her way through the labyrinthine plots that surrounded the court, she had to live by her wits, surrounded by betrayal and suspicion, not knowing who to trust with her desire to be queen, or her desire to be a lover.
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Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Vintage
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099286578
SKU
V9780099286578
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 5 to 9 working days
Ref
99-28
About David Starkey
Dr David Starkey is a historian and broadcaster, and Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. In 2000 he presented the acclaimed Channel Four series Elizabeth, and in 1998 he presented David Starkey's Henry VIII, also on Channel Four. He writes regularly for both popular newspapers and learned journal, and is a controversial panellist on Radio 4's The Moral Maze. An expert ... Read more
Reviews for Elizabeth
Fresh and lively... Vividly told... He sets before us not only the woman behind the throne but the girl behind the woman
Sunday Times
The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth... One of the most zestful pieces of narrative history written...a racy read and first-rate history
Evening Standard
What a page turner! ... Read more
Sunday Times
The best account in English of the early years of Elizabeth... One of the most zestful pieces of narrative history written...a racy read and first-rate history
Evening Standard
What a page turner! ... Read more