Queen Elizabeth I

I am about to play Elizabeth I in a new play, the book helped expand my knowledge of the lady!

Great writing,well researched. Terrible transcription to kindle with grammar and spelling errors on every page. Deserves great review except for that.

Read for book club in conjunction with Bear's Women in Power. Wonderful book.

A very elegant account of this subject,and well worth having beside Lytton Strachey's flamboyant accountof Elizabeth and Essex. I don't know the field well, but it seems to have stood the test of time.

A really good book, but written a long time ago.

Excellent. Good read. Highly recommend this book

You're not going to find a more engaging, better researched bio of one of the greatest women who ever lived. It is fascinating and fun to read - takes you right back to the Elizabethan period, vividly lifelike and real.

Neale's book comes from an older world of historical writing, and would not satisy the demands of current historians. It tells the story of Elizabeth I as a loving tale of a personal friend, focusing on assessments (or presumptions!) about character. The book makes Elizabeth seem a strong and deserving leader. The book reveals little, though, of the details and especially the implications of political decision-making. A war, or a raising of taxes, is seen as meaningful only as a development in some relationship between Elizabeth and some other nobleman. This work would be of almost no help to someone trying to understand the developments in English politics in the 1500s. As a personal drama, though, (perhaps as a soap-opera), this is an engaging and informative read.