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Zapraszam do zakupu książki: ELIZABETH & LEICESTER
by
SARAH GRISTWOOD
Książka używana, w języku angielskim Stan książki: bdb, zawiera zdjęcia
Oprawa: miękka
Ilość stron: 526
Rok wydania: 2008
THE GOOD BOOK GUIDE
'This is the first scholarly examination of this relationship for fifty years and it makes compelling reading' THE GUARDIAN
'This has to be the last word on that much-discussed (then and now) relationship between the Virgin Queen and her favourite, Robert Dudley...It's gripping' Alison Weir
'Quite simply one of the most enthralling history books I've ever read.It is also a convincing and captivating portrayal of the Virgin Queen and the man who meant more to her than any other.' Mail on Sunday
'Pacey and highly readable ... As well as producing an enthralling account of one particular relationship, Gristwood crams her book with fascinating detail of life at the Elizabethan court.' Independent on Sunday
'Heaving with detail and anecdote, Elizabeth and Leicester plunges us into the turbulent Tudor world and makes absorbing reading.' Power, passion, politics: The real story behind the romance of two of the most powerful people in Tudor history. Few relationships fire our imagination like that of Elizabeth I and her ‘bonnie sweet Robin’ – the Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley. But it has been almost half a century since any book set out specifically to examine and disentangle the emotive, often contradictory facts about their lifelong love. They both grew up amid the palaces and plots of Henry VIII’s court; they were both imprisoned in the Tower of London by Elizabeth’s sister, Mary. Soon after Elizabeth herself became queen there were scandalized letters from ambassadors about her infatuation with the married Robert Dudley – to be followed a mere two years later by the suspicious death of his wife Amy. Speculation ran for years that Elizabeth and Robert in their turn would marry. Instead, as the years turned to decades, they developed a working partnership, and – an even more extraordinary intimacy – a bond of mutual dependence and affection. By the time Robert died he had been Elizabeth’s councillor and commander of her army, had sat by her bed in sickness and represented her on state occasions. But she had also humiliated him, made him dance attendance on her other suitors and tried to have him clapped in prison when he had finally he broken loose and married again. Riven by uncertainties and fuelled by scandal and intrigue, the relationship between a reigning queen and the most hated man in England could never be an easy one. Elizabeth and Leicester is a portrait – at times a startlingly intimate one – of the tie between two of the people who forced their age; of a relationship where, unusually, a woman held all the power; of an edgy yet enduring love that still speaks to us today.
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