The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597

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Cambridge University Press, Jun 24, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 446 pages
The Earl of Essex was the last great favorite of Elizabeth I and the leading cultural patron of the final years of her reign. Dazzled by the "romantic" relationship with the queen, modern writers have branded Essex a dandy, a military incompetent, and a political dabbler, and have blamed him for the bitter factionalism that plagued English politics in the 1590s. Using an unparalleled range of manuscript and printed sources, this book presents a very different image of Essex and of the outbreak of factionalism in Elizabethan politics.
 

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My lord of Essex
15
Yowr sonne most ready to
66
To whom muche is geven
77
1
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13
143
Matters of intelligence
194
152
230
The shepheard of Albions Arcadia
243
My lord of Essex his men
269
Your Majesties creture and vassall
339
A greater worke then ever any gentleman
389
Bibliography of primary sources
405
Index
417
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