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Elizabeth I (Hardcover)

by David Loades (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Hambledon Continuum; illustrated edition edition (1 Mar 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852853042
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852853044
  • Product Dimensions: 24 x 16.6 x 4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 962,882 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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'Everything a scholarly biography should be, and a good read too'.


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Elizabeth I, who reigned over Shakespeare's England and defeated the Spanish Armada, is familiar both from her portraits and as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen. Yet the reality of her character and her personal attitudes are harder to detect behind the public mask. "Elizabeth I", a major biography by a leading Tudor expert to mark the 400th anniversary of her death in 1603, looks in detail behind the public life at the private woman. It treats at length her early years and examines her actions and policies a queen. By any standards, her life was an extraordinary one: her father, Henry VIII, executed her mother Anne Boleyn, for whose sake he had set up the Church of England; her sister Queen Mary, came near to having her executed. Coming to the throne in 1558, she remained the only unmarried queen regnant in England's history, holding, for a woman, unprecedented power. She faced major religious and political problems at home and abroad for much of her reign, coping with them by a combination of guile, procrastination and shrewdness. David Loades's biography brings out her remarkable talents and unique achievements.
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4.0 out of 5 stars easy to read, but little new material, 15 Nov 2003
By C. G. Nuttall (Edinburgh, Scotland United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
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One odd things comes to mind at once about this book – the second part of the title, as listed by Amazon, does not appear anywhere within the book itself. How’s that for confusion?

David Loades is an accomplished professor – or so we are informed – and he has done an excellent job of providing a biography of Elizabeth I of England, possibly the best ruler that England ever had. He shows both her remarkable talents and unique achievements, as well as how she controlled her kingdom and court, and how her life shaped her for her role.

The book, however, sheds little new light on the Queen. Events it discusses are familiar to most readers from the start, although the book is writing in an engaging style that interests the reader from the start. As we know, an interested reader is one who will learn more from the book.

The biography brings out events that may have been missed by many people and students. Elizabeth was not above the practice of ‘courtly love’, the nobles’ equivalent to cybersex, which may have led to two scandals in her reign. One of them, Dudley, was not fatal, but the other, with the immature Earl of Essex, could have had fatal consequences, as Essex tried to lead a Putsch against her courtiers, who he believed had poisoned the Queen against him. Due to his incompetence and immaturity, the attempt got nowhere and he was executed.

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