The Elizabethans
By: A.N. Wilson
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 2012
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
ISBN-13: 9780099547143
Subjects: Intellectual life; Civilization; History
Description: With all the panoramic sweep of his bestselling study of The Victorians, A.N. Wilson relates the exhilarating story of the Elizabethan Age. It was a time of exceptional creativity, wealth, creation, and political expansion.
Notes: Originally published: London: Hutchinson, 2011.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Early Reign. The difficulty ; The New World ; Ceremonial: twixt earnest and twixt game ; Men in power ; Which Church? ; The new learning ; A library at Mortlake ; The Northern Rebellion.; title: 1570s. St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ; Elizabethan women ; Histories ; Kenilworth ; Ireland ; Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation ; A frog he would a-wooing go.; title: 1580s. Religious dissent ; Sir Philip Sidney ; Hakluyt and empire ; The Scottish queen ; The Armada. ; London and theatre ; Marprelate and Hooker.; title: The Close of the Reign. A hive for bees ; Sex and the city ; The occult philosophy ; My America ; Tyrone ; Essex and the end ; Hamlet: one through two.