

The book is "about Queen Elizabeth"; it is not a portrait; nor is it a "study." It is rather a series of vignettes, thumbnail sketches of a number of characters who figured on the English stage in the sixteenth century-and left it worse than they found it . . . The "Catholic...

In "The Monstrous Regiment", Christopher Hollis provides a compelling and provocative examination of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and the profound religious transformation of England during the sixteenth century. Taking its title from the phrasing of John Knox's famous polemic,...

In "The Monstrous Regiment", Christopher Hollis provides a compelling and provocative examination of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and the profound religious transformation of England during the sixteenth century. Taking its title from the phrasing of John Knox's famous polemic,...