Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (Harvest Book) - Softcover

Strachey, Lytton

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9780156283106: Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History (Harvest Book)

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ISBN 10: 0156283107 ISBN 13: 9780156283106

Publisher: Harcourt, 1996

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'He satisfied the peculiar cravings of a virgin of sixty-three', writes Lytton Strachey of Essex. But what was sincere and what was acting in the behaviour of Elizabeth I, the despotic and calculating woman who suddenly appeared bewitched? And Essex's passion, was it the flattery of a careerist or a deeply rooted infatuation? From intimacy to bitter quarrels, under the eyes of Burleigh, Bacon, Raleigh and other members of the dazzling Court, their story unfolds to its last catastrophe - in which Essex lost his head and Elizabeth her heart. When it first appeared in 1928, Strachey's history caused a sensation. It is infused with a modern interest in psychology and invested with all the drama and spectacle of Elizabethan theatre.

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About the Author:

Lytton Strachey was a member of the Bloomsbury Group. Other books of his that have been published by Penguin are QUEEN VICTORIA and EMINENT VICTORIANS.

Synopsis:

Recreates the stormy, tragic romance between the sixteenth-century English queen and Robert Devereux, the Earl of Essex.

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