Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex
Standard Name: Essex, Robert Devereux,,, second Earl of
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Christopher Marlowe | Standard accounts of his death used to say that it was a brawl, largely caused by himself. But accident seems unlikely. He had recently been brought in for questioning by the Privy Council
, but... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Queen Elizabeth I | Elizabeth's personal relations with her favoured courtiers employed a condescending flirtatiousness; there were persistent but unlikely rumours that she had sexual relations, first with Leicester
and later with Essex
, as well as wilder rumours... |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Margaret Hoby | Margaret Dakins (later MH
), who was an heiress, was married at about seventeen to Walter Devereux
, son of the Earl of Essex and younger brother of the Elizabethan courtier Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex
. |
| Family and Intimate relationships | Aemilia Lanyer | Alfonso may (depending on whether he was the son of his father's first wife or his second) have been Aemilia's cousin; his job was the exact counterpart of her late father's. The marriage was not... |
| Occupation | E. Nesbit | A few years later she believed, as if she had entered into one of her own fantasies for children, that she had found out the Shakespeare cipher, which comes out as definitely as the result... |
| politics | Queen Elizabeth I | The end of the 1580s saw a shift into the final period of Elizabeth's reign, marked by the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, the death of Leicester
(4 September 1588), and the defeat of... |
| Textual Features | Anne Bacon | She pleads with Lord Burghley
for the rights of Nonconformists, and offers penetrating political, career, and medical advice to her sons and to the Earl of Essex
. In many letters she dispenses godly counsel... |
| Textual Production | Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke | Her interest in Senecan tragedy parallels that which her brother expressed in his Defence of Poesie. Hers was the first dramatic treatment of Antony and Cleopatra in English; it carried a political message, a... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sophia Lee | Both sisters become rivals in love to Queen Elizabeth
(following the popular account of romantic interest in Elizabeth's life). Matilda loves, and bears a daughter by, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester
. Lee's account of... |
Timeline
1598
George Chapman
published the first seven books of his translation of Homer
's Iliad, the first English version done direct from Greek; he finished the Iliad in 1608 and the whole of Homer in 1616.
March 1599
Queen Elizabeth
sent her young favourite the Earl of Essex
to Ireland as Lord Lieutenant with a large army to crush Tyrone
's Rebellion.
7 February 1601
Followers of the Earl of Essex
attended a play at the Globe Theatre, the day before rising against Queen Elizabeth
: this has been taken, probably wrongly, to demonstrate the theatre's political power.
25 February 1601
The Earl of Essex
was executed in the Tower of London on the orders of Queen Elizabeth
; she was said to be much upset, but was deaf to all appeals for clemency.
1684
John Banks
's tragedy The Island Queens (which featured Mary Queen of Scots
as heroine and Elizabeth I
as villain) was defiantly published after having been banned from the stage.