Only Sleeping
Anne Barton: Variations on Elizabeth I, 10 July 2003
England’s Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy
by Michael Dobson and Nicola J. Watson.
Oxford, 348 pp., £19.99, November 2002,0 19 818377 1 Show More
by Michael Dobson and Nicola J. Watson.
Oxford, 348 pp., £19.99, November 2002,
“... to accept the golden ball of discord now resolved as a tribute from Diana, her tutelary goddess. Philip Sidney in The Lady of May, the little entertainment he staged in 1578 at Leicester’s park and gardens of Wanstead, went so far as to impose an unscripted speaking part on the Queen, presumably without warning, forcing her to adjudicate between two ... ”