elizabeth, 1558-1603

Follows the life of the strong-willed queen who brought new stability and vitality to England in the sixteenth century.

When her father is imprisoned in 1592 England for being Catholic, fourteen-year-old Rosalind disguises herself as a boy and finds an ultimately dangerous job as servant to playwright Christopher Marlowe.

Offers an in-depth historical analysis of the rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain, focusing on how that rivalry influenced the history of Europe and the Americas and reshaped modern history.

Presents a biography of sixteen-century British navigator and privateer Sir Francis Drake, who was commissioned by Elizabeth I to help establish England as a maritime empire and gain victory over the Spanish Armada.

A history of England's Elizabethan Age, focusing on the looking at the rich cultural flowering that characterized the reign of Elizabeth I in the areas of poetry, painting, sculpture, the minor arts, music, and science.

Contains fifteen biographies of those people who helped shape the era of Elizabethan England.

Queen Elizabeth I, holding her people together in the midst of internal and international strife, finds her authority and her entire monarchy threatened when a private diary she kept as a young princess is stolen.

Examines the last fifteen years of the life and reign of England's Queen Elizabeth I.