Elizabeth and Essex (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lytton Strachey
- First Published: 1928
- Time of Work: 1558–1603
- Setting: Primarily England and particularly London
- Principal Characters: Elizabeth I, Earl of Essex, Robert Devereux, Sir Walter Raleigh, Robert Cecil, Francis Bacon, Philip II
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Politics, England or English people, Kings, queens, or royalty, Ambition, Sixteenth century, Renaissance, Biography, Treason, Royal courts or courtiers
- Locales: London, England
Form and Content
In seventeen chapters of varying length, Lytton Strachey attempts in Elizabeth and Essex: A Tragic History to examine the relationship between the queen and her last male favorite. The book is part biography, part social history, and part psychological study. Strachey does not limit his study to the lives of his principal subjects, but attempts to chronicle the major events in the careers of those persons who surrounded them in the last turbulent years of the sixteenth century. Strachey’s evaluation of the governmental, judicial, and social systems...
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