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The Favourite: Ambition, Politics and Love: Sir Walter Raleigh in Elizabeth I's court
✍ Scribed by Lyons, Mathew
- Book ID
- 108591178
- Publisher
- Constable
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 213 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781849018098
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
In The Favourite, Mathew Lyons strips away the myth - and the self-mythologising - to find Sir Walter Ralegh in the one role in which his contemporaries knew him best: the courtier who could win the attention - and the heart - of Elizabeth I, while also being the 'most hated man in England'. Using first-hand accounts, Lyons uncovers the maze of ambition, desire and amorality in which Ralegh lived before he rose to fame - a brutal Elizabethan world riven with crime and corruption and riddled with traitors and spies.