Gloriana: Exploring The Reign Of Elizabeth I - Hardcover

Bertram Fields

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0990560295 ISBN 13: 9780990560296

Publisher: Marmont Lane, 2018

Synopsis

Gloriana combines a succinct and colorful biography of Elizabeth I with an incisive analysis of significant questions on the life and reign of this extraordinary woman, arguably England's greatest monarch.

Was she really the Virgin Queen? Was she complicit in the murder of a lover's wife? What were her views and actions on religion? On espionage? On torture? On slavery?

Fully illustrated in color.

About this title

About the Author:

Bertram Fields was born in Los Angeles. A practicing lawyer, he graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. After serving as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force during the Korean War, he began the general practice of law. Since then, he has tried many of the landmark cases in the entertainment, sports and communications industries and has been the subject of numerous personal profiles in magazines and newspapers. He teaches at Stanford Law School and lectures annually at Harvard.

Mr. Fields is the author, under a pseudonym, of two prior novels, The Sunset Bomber, published by Simon and Schuster, and The Lawyer s Tale, published by Random House.

Under his own name, he has written Royal Blood, a biographical work on Richard III and Players, an analysis of the Shakespeare authorship question. Both non-fiction books were published by HarperCollins.

His recent books, Destiny: A Novel Of Napoleon & Josephine and Shylock: His Own Story are also available from Marmont Lane Books.

He lives in Malibu, California with his wife, Barbara Guggenheim, a nationally known art consultant.

Review:

Elizabeth I, aka the Virgin Queen, was a colorful figure who still manages to stimulate the popular imagination more than 400 years after her death. This wide-ranging biography is a breathless account that spans the entire Tudor dynasty, with Elizabeth's rise to power, her completion of England's break from the Catholic Church, the war with Spain, and her constantly evolving entourage of advisers, favorites, and paramours. Fields delves into the curios of Elizabeth's life. Was she truly a virgin? Did she sanction the murder of the wife of nobleman Robert Dudley? What were her true thoughts on Catholicism?

Fields introduces readers to aspects of the queen that they may not have heard before. The concision and comprehensiveness are impressive, and the book's brevity and quick pacing keep it from getting bogged down. Fields' enthusiasm is infectious. He finds plenty of intrigues to challenge conventional notions of the queen. Beautiful, full-color portraits from the National Portrait Gallery in London and a timeline of the queen's life round out this volume. Its 450-plus pages belie what a quick read it actually is, making it a perfect primer for those interested in the Good Queen Bess. --Kirkus Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Marmont Lane
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0990560295
• ISBN 13: 9780990560296
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 450