The Elizabethan era in the 16th century was one of adventure ... economic and religious tensions she encountered during this period? Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII, the most notorious ...

Elizabeth faced challenges throughout her long reign. Many were from Catholic plotters wanting Mary, Queen of Scots to replace Elizabeth. She secured England’s security by thwarting plots such ...

But if this was not an age - and who are we to contradict her? - then it was an era, the Elizabethan Era. Over decades of wrenching change, she was constancy, for a largely still-conservative country.

Brown reveals how the period's obsession with shame was expressed in fragmentary and marginal literary ... written an admirably intelligent and sensitive book that should be of great interest to ...