GLORIANA:
The Life and Reign of Elizabeth I

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND LINKS

 

RECOMMENDED READING:

I have used the books listed below in researching and preparing this web site; all are worth reading, but those I found particularly illuminating are noted with a small graphic. For the convenience of the reader, those shown in links are available through Amazon.com. All quotations on this site refer to the editions below.

John Aubrey, Brief Lives, The Folio Society, Ltd. 1975.

Susan Brigden, New Worlds, Lost Worlds: The Rule of the Tudors, 1485-1603 (from The Penguin History of Britain), The Penguin Group, 2000.

Peter Brimacombe, All the Queen's Men: The World of Elizabeth I, St. Martin's Press, 2000.

Christopher Hibbert, The Virgin Queen, Perseus Books, 1991.

Elizabeth I, Collected Works, ed. Leah S. Marcus, Janel Mueller, Mary Beth Rose, University of Chicago Press, 2000. An irreplaceable resource for enthusiasts.

Antonia Fraser, Mary Queen of Scots, 1969, Bantom Dell, 2001.

Carolyn Levin, The Heart and Stomach of a King: Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.

Maria Perry, Elizabeth I: The Word of a Prince, The Folio Society, 1990.

Alison Plowden, Danger to Elizabeth, 1973; Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999. Highly recommended, as are those following.

Alison Plowden, Elizabeth Regina, 1980, Sutton Publishing Ltd., 2000.

Alison Plowden, Marriage with My Kingdom, 1977, Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999

Alison Plowden, The Young Elizabeth, 1971, Sutton Publishing Ltd., 1999.

.S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life, Oxford University Press, 1977.

S. Schoenbaum, Shakespeare: The Globe and the World, Folger Shakespeare Library/Oxford University Press, 1979.

Lacey Baldwin Smith, A Tudor Tragedy: The Life and Times of Catherine Howard, The Reprint Society, 1961.

Time-Life Books (Denise Dersin, Ed.), What Life Was Like in the Realm of Elizabeth, Time-Life Books, 1998.

Edith Sitwell, The Queens and the Hive, The Reprint Society, Ltd., 1962.

Julia M. Walker, ed., Dissing Elizabeth: Negative Representations of Gloriana, Duke University Press, 1998.

Alison Weir, The Children of Henry VIII (formerly entitled Children of England), Ballantine Books, 1996.

Alison Weir, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Ballantine Books, 1991.

Alison Weir, The Life of Elizabeth I, Ballantine Books, 1998.

RECOMMENDED LINKS:

The Tudors are astonishingly well represented on the Internet and there are excellent resources particularly for Elizabeth I and her world. A few of the many which assisted my own work are gratefully noted below.

ELIZABETH I:

The Life and Times of Queen Elizabeth I

TudorHistory.org, a marvelous resource for all Tudor monarchs including Elizabeth.

Tudor England, 1485 to 1603: similarly comprehensive and readable.

Selected Writings and Speeches of Elizabeth I, from the Modern History Sourcebook.

Elizabeth I (1533-1603), from the wonderful Luminarium, covering Tudor and Elizabethan literature.

The Works of Elizabeth I: The Queen in her own words (from Luminarium).

Elizabethan Images (with links to Tudor portraits).

Elizabeth I: Queen of England.

Tudor Monarchs: Queen Elizabeth I.

IIn Her Own Words: Queen Elizabeth I Onstage and Online.

On a lighter note, the amusing Myths About Queen Elizabeth and The Tudor Times.

From the BBC, Elizabeth I: An Overview. See also Elizabeth's Spy Network.

New Year's Gifts for Queen Elizabeth.

GENERAL TUDOR AND ELIZABETHAN SITES

William Camden's remarkable contemporary work, Annales Rerum Gestarum Angliae et Hiberniae Regnante Elizabetha, containing the best 17th century history of her reign.

Tudor and Elizabethan Portraits, which provided many of the images used on this site.

Life in Elizabethan England: A Compendium of Common Knowledge. Fascinating details ranging from fashions to household management.

Shakespeare's Life and Times

Tudor History Links.

Official Site of the Mary Stuart of Scotland Society. Adulatory but full of information.

The Henry VIII Page.

Katherine Parr.

Lady Jane Grey: Jane, the Queen

Mary Tudor

The Tudors.

Tudor Web Site.

Renaissance Sites: The Elizabethan World. Comprehensive links to almost every subject of related lore.

 

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