ELIZABETH AND LEICESTER

The enigmatic and contradictory figure of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, emerges as a personality in this minutely detailed and scholarly study of him in relation to his queen. The period with all its ramifications and bids for power, all its petty manoeuvers for position, its double-crossing and its ruthlessness demands the majestic figure of Elizabeth to save it. The flavor of the era makes it valuable.