| Titre : | Fatal majesty : the drama of Mary Queen of Scots / | | Type de document : | texte imprimé | | Auteurs : | Reay Tannahill | | Editeur : | London : Orion | | Année de publication : | 1998 | | Importance : | 466 p | | Présentation : | geneal.tables | | Format : | 25 cm | | Mots-clés : | Historical Fiction | | Index. décimale : | 823 Fiction | | Résumé : | Returning from the sophisticated French court to take up her throne in cold and backward Scotland, 18-year-old Mary finds herself trapped in a web of ambitions and intrigues: those of her self-righteous brother, James, who desires to rule in her place; of her brilliant Secretary of State, Lethington, dedicated to placing the Stuarts on the throne of England; and of Elizabeth I, dazzling and unscrupulous, who fears Mary as a threat to her crown and to her life.
Mingling a poet's passion with an historian's insight, Tannahill chronicles an era of easy violence, desperate actions, and the grand, often terrifying, designs of those who would dominate it. |
Fatal majesty : the drama of Mary Queen of Scots / [texte imprimé] / Reay Tannahill . - London : Orion, 1998 . - 466 p : geneal.tables ; 25 cm. | Mots-clés : | Historical Fiction | | Index. décimale : | 823 Fiction | | Résumé : | Returning from the sophisticated French court to take up her throne in cold and backward Scotland, 18-year-old Mary finds herself trapped in a web of ambitions and intrigues: those of her self-righteous brother, James, who desires to rule in her place; of her brilliant Secretary of State, Lethington, dedicated to placing the Stuarts on the throne of England; and of Elizabeth I, dazzling and unscrupulous, who fears Mary as a threat to her crown and to her life.
Mingling a poet's passion with an historian's insight, Tannahill chronicles an era of easy violence, desperate actions, and the grand, often terrifying, designs of those who would dominate it. |
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Fatal majesty / Reay Tannahill
