Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan Politics.(Reviews of Books)(Book Review)

Simon Adams. Leicester and the Court: Essays on Elizabethan Politics. (Politics, Culture and Society in Early Modern Britain.) New York: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York, N. Y. 2002. Pp. xii, 420. $29.95 paper. ISBN 0-7190-5325-0.

Simon Adams is the undisputed master of the life of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. His forthcoming biography of Leicester is eagerly awaited by historians of Elizabethan England. Leicester and the Court is an appetizer for the biography, bringing together sixteen articles on Leicester, on the Court, and on Leicester and the ...

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