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xiii, 432 p. : ill 24 cm "Originally published in 2011 by Hutchinson, Great Britain." The early reign. The difficulty ; The New World ; Ceremonial : twixt earnest and twixt game ; Men in power ; Which Church? ; The new learning ; A library at Mortlake ; The Northern Rebellion -- 1570s. St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre ; Elizabethan women ; Histories ; Kenilworth ; Ireland ; Sir Francis Drake's circumnavigation ; A frog he would a-wooing go -- 1580s. Religious dissent ; Sir Philip Sidney ; Hakluyt and empire ; The Scottish queen ; The Armada. ; London and theatre ; Marprelate and Hooker -- The close of the reign. A hive for bees ; Sex and the city ; The occult philosophy ; My America ; Tyrone ; Essex and the end ; Hamlet : one through two An account of the Elizabethan age evaluates the contributions of such figures as Francis Drake and William Shakespeare while exploring definitive events--from the declaration of religious liberty to the establishment of British imperialism