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Colin Burrow: Walter Ralegh, 8 March 2012
Sir Walter Ralegh in Life and Legend
by Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams.
Continuum, 378 pp., £25, February 2012,978 1 4411 1209 5 Show More
by Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams.
Continuum, 378 pp., £25, February 2012,
The Favourite: Sir Walter Ralegh in Elizabeth I’s Court
by Mathew Lyons.
Constable, 354 pp., £14.99, March 2011,978 1 84529 679 7 Show More
by Mathew Lyons.
Constable, 354 pp., £14.99, March 2011,
“... as Belphoebe, Diana, a goddess supreme, never fully forgave him. Ralegh wrote a letter to Sir Robert Cecil from the Tower which was probably intended to be shown to the queen in order to win back her favour. The letter displays Ralegh at his best and worst. It’s a monstrous blast of self-pity, tempered by his characteristic half-belief in his own ... ”