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Elizabeth and Essex

by Steven Veerapen

First published 2019

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Elizabeth and Essex examines the volatile relationship between Elizabeth I and Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, a favourite whose military ambitions, factional rivalry and expectation of royal favour increasingly brought him into conflict with the queen. Veerapen places their personal and political relationship inside the structures of the late Elizabethan court rather than treating it simply as a romance.

The book follows Essex through war, government, rivalry with Robert Cecil and the disastrous rebellion of 1601 that ended in his execution. It is nonfiction history and biography, using the relationship to explore authority, gender, patronage and political performance during the final years of Elizabeth’s reign.

Historical Periods

Essex Rebellion1601 CE Elizabethan Privy Chamber and Court Society1565–1603

Genres

Political History

Historical people

Elizabeth I1533–1603 Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex1565–1601 Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury1563–1612

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