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The Elizabethan World Picture (Chatto & Windus 1943, Penguin 1963) Shakespeare's History Plays (1944) Milton (1946) The Miltonic Setting: Past and Present (1947) Poetry and Its Background: Illustrated by Five Poems 1470–1870 (1948) Shakespeare's Problem Plays (1949) Studies in Milton (1951) The English Renaissance, Fact or Fiction? (1952)
Spycraft was praised by Jonathan Bate in The Daily Telegraph as "an intriguing study ... of the mechanics of Elizabethan and Jacobean espionage" which is "anything but stodgy and over-long". [1] In the Literary Review Peter Davidson wrote that " Spycraft is an excellent book, accessibly written, profoundly researched, cleverly illustrated and ...
The book has spawned several sequels such as: The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England: a Handbook for Visitors to the Sixteenth Century was published in 2012 by Viking Press [12] The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain: Life in the Age of Samuel Pepys, Isaac Newton and The Great Fire of London by The Bodley Head in 2017 [13]
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history.
Elizabethan literature refers to bodies of work produced during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603), and is one of the most splendid ages of English literature.In addition to drama and the theatre, it saw a flowering of poetry, with new forms like the sonnet, the Spenserian stanza, and dramatic blank verse, as well as prose, including historical chronicles, pamphlets, and the first ...
To Shield the Queen, a series of eight books featuring Ursula Blanchard, Lady in waiting to Elizabeth, by Fiona Buckley (1997–2006). Elizabeth's story is told for children in Elizabeth I: Red Rose of the House of Tudor, a book by Kathryn Lasky in the Royal Diaries series published by Scholastic (1999).
Mortimer's best-known book is The Time Traveller's Guide to Medieval England, first published in the United Kingdom in 2008. It was followed by The Time Traveller's Guide to Elizabethan England (which became a BBC TV series, presented by the author), The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain and The Time Travellers Guide to Regency ...
The Procession Picture (detail), c. 1600. The painting known as Queen Elizabeth going in procession to Blackfriars in 1601, or simply The Procession Picture (see illustration), is now often accepted as the work of Peake. The attribution was made by Roy Strong, who called it "one of the great visual mysteries of the Elizabethan age". [37]