Elizabeth I: The Golden Reign of Gloriana

by David Loades

Overview

Elizabeth I, who reigned over Shakespeare's England and defeated the Spanish Armada, is familiar both from her portraits and as Gloriana, the Virgin Queen. Yet the reality of her character and her personal attitudes are harder to detect behind the public mask. Elizabeth I, a major biography by a leading Tudor expert to mark the 400th anniversary of her death in 1603, looks in detail behind the public life at the private woman. It treats at length her early years and examines her actions and policies as queen. David Loades's biography brings out her remarkable talents and unique achievements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781852853044
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/30/2003
Pages:	450
Product dimensions:	9.10(w) x 6.20(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

David Loades is a well-known and popular writer on Tudor history. His many works include biographies of leading Tudor personalities and a best-selling textbook, Politics and the Nation 1450-1660. For the National Archives he has written Mary Tudor: The Tragical History of the First Queen of England (2006) and Elizabeth I: The Golden Reign of Gloriana. His other interests include naval history (he is closely engaged with research on the Mary Rose, and has appeared in TV documentaries on the subject).

David Loades is one of the leading historians of the Tudor monarchy. He is the author of the definitive biography of Elizabeth's half-sister, Mary Tudor: A Life (1989), and of The Tudor Court (second edition, 2003). He is Honorary Research Professor at the University of Sheffield and Director of the British Academy John Foxe Project.

Table of Contents

Contents:

* Preface
* The Young Elizabeth
* A Queen in the Making
* To Play the Queen
* To Queens in One Isle
* Gloriana, the Virgin Queen

Editorial Reviews

...he is able to write a scholarly biography as if it were a popular history.” —Royal Book News

“...a worthy tribute to the 'Virgin Queen'...an outstanding biography.” —Jay Freeman, Booklist

From the Publisher

...a worthy tribute to the 'Virgin Queen'...an outstanding biography.

Booklist Jay Freeman

...he is able to write a scholarly biography as if it were a popular history.

Royal Book News