The Story of the Elizabethans - 2020

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6 Timeline

Key events and turning points

in the reign of Elizabeth I

12 ELIZABETHAN

LIVES

14 The other Elizabethan

England

Tarnya Cooper explains what art

of the era reveals about everyday

life for Elizabethans, rich and poor

20 The play’s one thing...

James Sharpe introduces the

range of entertainment and

pastimes available to Elizabethan

people, rich and poor

27 Hold your noses...

Ian Mortimer evokes the sights,

sounds, smells, tastes, feelings and

fears of the Elizabethan age

34 The dark side of

Elizabethan life

Life for thousands of ordinary

people was blighted by violence,

vagrancy and crushing hunger,

says James Sharpe

39 Great palaces of

Elizabethan England

Roam six of the most magnificent

castles, palaces and ‘prodigy

houses’ of the Tudor era with

Tracy Borman

46 THE QUEEN

AND HER COURT

48 Personal politics in

Elizabeth’s court

The ‘Virgin Queen’ jealously

controlled her courtiers’ love

lives – but for sound political

reasons, explains Susan Doran

54 How Lettice Knollys stole

the queen’s sweetheart

Nicola Tallis tells the story of

a Tudor love triangle

59 The unfathomable queen

Helen Castor interprets the

thoughts and emotions behind

Elizabeth’s inscrutable mask

CONTENTS

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Why marrying without the queen’s

permission was a rash act

96

How Elizabeth made

Muslim allies

82

Walter

Ralegh:

from

queen’s

favourite

to king’s

fall-guy