Bad Queen Bess?: Libels, Secret Histories and the Politics of Publicity in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth I

by Peter Lake

Bad Queen Bess? analyses the back and forth between the Elizabethan regime and various Catholic critics, who, from the early 1570s to the early 1590s, sought to characterize that regime as a conspiracy of evil counsel. Through a genre novel - the libellous secret history - to English political discourse, various (usually anonymous) Catholic authors claimed to reveal to the public what was "really happening" behind the curtain of official lies and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198753993
• ISBN13: 9780198753995
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 510 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 9.3"