Court Politics and the Earl of Essex, 1589–1601

'Provocative, substantial and serious.' Times Literary Supplement 'Dickinson's detailed analysis of a wide range of documentation and literature is a persuasive rebuttal of the factional theory that has marginalized the aging queen.' Sixteenth Century Journal

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Chivalric Culture and the Earl of Essex; Chapter 2 The Virgin Queen and Her Lovers; Chapter 3 ‘This Late Unhappy Accident’: The Rebellion of 1601; Chapter 4 Faction in the 1590s?; Chapter 5 Essex and Cecil; Chapter 6 Essex and the Essexians; Chapter 7 Elizabeth’s Last Decade: Cult or Crisis?;