The Favourite: Ralegh and His QueenIn The Favourite, Mathew Lyons strips away the myth - and the self-mythologising - to find Sir Walter Ralegh in the one role in which his contemporaries knew him best: the courtier who could win the attention - and the heart - of Elizabeth I, while also being the 'most hated man in England'. Using first-hand accounts, Lyons uncovers the maze of ambition, desire and amorality in which Ralegh lived before he rose to fame - a brutal Elizabethan world riven with crime and corruption and riddled with traitors and spies. |
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Leagues of Smoke | |
In a Country Strange | |
The Deceits of Fortune | |
The Worlds | |
The Virgin Queen | |
The Wind of Faction | |
The Fort of Fame | |
Excess of Duty | |
The Rightflourishing | |
The Sacred Anchor | |
A Durable Fire | |
Hollow Servants Chapter XIV Amore et Virtute | |
The Less Afraid | |
End notes Bibliography Copyright | |
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