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Patrick Collinson: Historiography and Elizabethan politics, 11 November 1999
The World of the Favourite
edited by J.H. Elliott and L.W.B. Brockliss.
Yale, 320 pp., £35, June 1999,0 300 07644 4 Show More
edited by J.H. Elliott and L.W.B. Brockliss.
Yale, 320 pp., £35, June 1999,
The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-97
by Paul Hammer.
Cambridge, 468 pp., £45, June 1999,0 521 43485 8 Show More
by Paul Hammer.
Cambridge, 468 pp., £45, June 1999,
“... natural environment of favourites, which, initially, he did, unlike his dear friend and idol Sir Philip Sidney, with whom he fought at Zutphen and whose widow, after Zutphen, he married. In those early days, it was said that nobody was near the Queen but my lord of Essex. ‘At night my lord is at cardes or one game or an other with her, [so] that he ... ”