http://politicworm.com Shakespeare authorship Fri, 25 May 2012 15:40:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://politicworm.com/background/queen-elizabeth/this-queen-hates-marriage/elizabeth-and-the-politics-of-frustration/#comment-1615 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:32:32 +0000 http://politicworm.com/?page_id=1313#comment-1615 Having touched on the first two periods in Oxford’s (Shakespeare’s) career, the 70′s and 80s, right now I’m digging into the final (Shakespeare) period, the 1590s. Since this was dominated by the rise and fall of the Earl of Essex, I’ve been close reading the most recent biography of Essex, that of Paul Hammer: The Polarization of Elizabethan Politics: The politcal career of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex. This doesn’t give a close look at Elizabeth, but by knowing Essex better, and the results of his activities, it’s easier to understand the Queen. She loved him, apparently everyone (but his rivals) did, but he challenged her in a way she simply couldn’t allow. By detailing the ways in which he challenged her, Hammer gives the best view possible of what her life was like during these final years. She outlived his execution by two weary years.

]]> http://politicworm.com/background/queen-elizabeth/this-queen-hates-marriage/elizabeth-and-the-politics-of-frustration/#comment-1613 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 07:18:05 +0000 http://politicworm.com/?page_id=1313#comment-1613 This was very well written! Bravo. Do you have or know of anything I can find on Elizabeth I during the last years of her life. Specifically, I seek the relationship of an old monarch that outlived her council and continued her reign in the generation of a new court.

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