Englands Elizabeth

Author : Michael Dobson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191541818
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Elizabeth written by Michael Dobson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-11-07 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which successive generations have sought to extol, explain, or excoriate Elizabeth supply a rich index to the cultural history of English nationalism - whether they represent her as Anne Boleyn's suffering orphan or as the implacable nemesis of Mary, Queen of Scots, as learned stateswoman or as frustrated lover, persecuted princess or triumphant warrior queen. This book examines the many afterlives the Virgin Queen has lived in drama, poetry, fiction, painting, propaganda, and the cinema over the four centuries since her death, from the aspiringly epic to the frankly kitsch. Exploring the Elizabeths of Shakespeare and Spenser, of Sophia Lee and Sir Walter Scott, of Bette Davis and of Glenda Jackson, of Shakespeare in Love and Blackadder II, this is a lively, lavishly-illustrated investigation of England's perennial fascination with a queen who is still engaged in a posthumous progress through the collective pysche of her country.

Author : Time-Life Books
Publisher : Time Life Medical
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Life was Like in the Realm of Elizabeth written by Time-Life Books and published by Time Life Medical. This book was released on 1998 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs, illustrations, and text provide information about life in England before and during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I, covering the years between 1533 and 1603, discussing the Queen's court, conditions in London, foreign affairs, and other topics.

Author : Anne Somerset
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312081836
Total Pages : 676 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Anne Somerset and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1992-10-15 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revelatory new biography emerges that captures the enigmatic life of England's greatest queen--the uniquely fascinating Elizabeth, who ruled for nearly 45 years, had intellect and presence, and exercised supreme authority in a world where power was exclusively male. Anne Somerset examines the monarch and the woman. 16 pages of black-and-white illustrations.

Author : Kerrily Sapet
Publisher : Morgan Reynolds Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781931798709
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth I of England written by Kerrily Sapet and published by Morgan Reynolds Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the life of Queen Elizabeth I, from her birth to Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn in 1533, her imprisonment by her half-sister, through her reign as one of England's more respected monarchs, to her death in 1603. The birth of Elizabeth Tudor, the future queen of England, was a bitter disappointment to her parents. Her father, Henry VIII, had all but moved heaven and earth to marry her mother after his first wife failed to produce a male heir. Henry had Elizabeth's mother executed when she failed to bear more children and eventually married four more times. He finally got a son, but Edward was sickly and died soon after becoming king. After surviving the bloody reign of her older half sister, who tried and failed to lead England back into the Catholic fold, Elizabeth became queen at age twenty-five. Elizabeth drew on the survival skills she learned as a child to guide her beloved country during dangerous times. When she came to power in 1558, England was nearly broke, religious conflict divided her people, and powerful Spain threatened invasion. She man- aged to restore the treasury and to keep the country from sinking into religious violence. She held off the Spanish by using wily diplomacy, including the pro- mise of a marriage to King Philip II. In 1588, the English navy sent the supposedly invincible Spanish Armada to a crushing defeat. At home, Elizabeth was often the focus of intrigue from those wanting to seize the throne. She was a brilliant and riveting ruler who imprinted her personality on an age of develop- ment in art and culture and rapid political and economic change. Elizabeth I of England brings this fascinating queen and her exciting reign to life.

Author : Thomas Heywood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780429058974
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book England's Elizabeth written by Thomas Heywood and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1982: England's Elizabeth was first issues in 1631, and it is probably the earliest separately published biography of Elizabeth I's early years. An important example of the author's considerable, and largely neglected, non-dramatic work, the book has never been previously edited.

Author : Myra Weatherly
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756509880
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Myra Weatherly and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles Elizabeth I, highly regarded queen of England who reigned in dazzling splendor for 45 years.

Author : Alison Plowden
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752467417
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Marriage with my Kingdom written by Alison Plowden and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-07-31 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1533, Elizabeth I was the product of the doomed marriage of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. In 1558, on her Catholic sister Mary's death, she ascended the throne and reigned for 45 years. Loved and respected by her subjects and idolised by future generations, Gloriana's fierce devotion to her country and its people made her England's fairest queen and icon. Royal marriage in the age of Elizabeth was a political business. Unions between great familes could be the key to security at home and to the making of great empires. No one represented a better prize than Elizabeth. She encouraged attention and spent her life surrounded by suitors, but she remained, until the end, married only to her kingdom. This, the third volume of Alison Plowden's Elizabethan quartet, plots the true story of the Virgin Queen's courtships and her career as "the greatest tease in history".

Author : Simon Adams
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426301728
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth I written by Simon Adams and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the unwanted daughter of Henry VIII who went on to become queen and reign during one of England's most glorious eras.

Author : Robert Hutchinson
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312368224
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth's Spymaster written by Robert Hutchinson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Kathryn Lasky
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780590684842
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth I, Red Rose of the House of Tudor written by Kathryn Lasky and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 1999 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a series of diary entries, Princess Elizabeth, the eleven-year-old daughter of King Henry VIII, celebrates holidays and birthdays, relives her mother's execution, revels in her studies, and agonizes over her father's health.