Shakespeare Studies, January 1st, 2001
The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597 By Paul E. J. Hammer Cambridge University Press, 1999
The second earl of Essex was the single most dominating figure in Elizabethan politics between the death of his stepfather the earl of Leicester in 1588 and his own execution after an abortive rebellion in 1601. Yet Essex has never attracted a serious historical biographer until now, not least because of the daunting complexity of the multifarious and fragmented sources on which any study of his life must rely. This volume will...
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