The Earl of Essex was the last great favorite of Elizabeth I and the leading cultural patron of the final years of her reign. Dazzled by the romantic relationship with the queen modern writers have branded Essex a dandy a military incompetent and a political dabbler and have blamed him for the bitter factionalism that plagued English politics in the 1590s. Using an unparalleled range of manuscript and printed sources this book presents a very different image of Essex and of the outbreak of factionalism in Elizabethan politics.
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