The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597The 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. |
Contents
My lord of Essex | 15 |
Yowr sonne most ready to | 66 |
To whom muche is geven | 77 |
1 | 130 |
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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