Fragmenta Regalia, Or Observations on Queen Elizabeth: Her Times & FavoritesAll previous editions of this account have been based on corrupt or inferior texts. This edition, based on the manuscript copy, at long last remedies this and offers a more complete and more accurate Fragmenta Regalia than has been available. Cerovski has provided a biographical introduction to Naution's life and work, and he describes the work's origin and textual history. |
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... character studies . A series of observations about Elizabeth herself opens the Fragmenta , and this is followed by shorter portraits of twenty - two members of her court . The order of the work is generally chronological . Beginning ...
... character studies . A series of observations about Elizabeth herself opens the Fragmenta , and this is followed by shorter portraits of twenty - two members of her court . The order of the work is generally chronological . Beginning ...
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... character sketches to describe a period of history . The form was afterward taken up by men writing about the reign of King James , principally Anthony Weldon in his Court and Character of King James ( London , 1650 ) and Arthur Wilson ...
... character sketches to describe a period of history . The form was afterward taken up by men writing about the reign of King James , principally Anthony Weldon in his Court and Character of King James ( London , 1650 ) and Arthur Wilson ...
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... character types- which reached the apex of its popularity in the 1620s in the work of Joseph Hall , Sir Thomas Overbury , and John Earle . Their possible influence on the short biographical sketch of this period is obvi- ous . However ...
... character types- which reached the apex of its popularity in the 1620s in the work of Joseph Hall , Sir Thomas Overbury , and John Earle . Their possible influence on the short biographical sketch of this period is obvi- ous . However ...
Contents
Foreword | 9 |
Nauntons Work | 25 |
The Text of the Fragmenta Regalia wow wwww 87 | 31 |
Copyright | |
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