The queen's bed : an intimate history of Elizabeth's court, Anna Whitelock

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The queen's bed : an intimate history of Elizabeth's court, Anna Whitelock

Title remainder

an intimate history of Elizabeth's court

Statement of responsibility

Anna Whitelock

Instantiates

• The queen's bed : an intimate history of Elizabeth's court

Publication

• New York, Sarah Crichton Books, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014

Note

"Originally published in 2013 by Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain, as 'Elizabeth's bedfellows : an intimate history of the Queen's Court'"--T.p. verso

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-441) and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Shameful slanders -- The Queen's two bodies -- The Queen is dead, long live the Queen -- Familia Reginae -- Not a morning person -- Womanish infirmity -- Disreputable rumours -- Ruin of the realm -- Carnal copulation -- Arcana Imperii -- Smallpox -- Devouring lions -- Ménage à trois -- Visitor to the bedchamber -- Sour and noisome -- Untouched and unimpaired -- Greatly grieved -- Suspicious mind -- The elixir of life -- Barren stock -- Wicked intentions -- Secret enemies -- Want of posterity -- Compass her death -- Beside her bed -- Lewd fantasy -- Blows and evil words -- Kenilworth -- Badness of belief -- Toothache -- Amorous potions -- Froggie went a-courtin' -- Semper Eadem -- The die is cast -- The enemy sleeps not -- In defence of the Queen's body -- Agent provocateur? -- Unseemly familiarities -- Especial favour -- The deed shall be done -- Blow up the bed -- Nightmares -- Secret son? -- Satan's instruments -- Barricaded from within -- Suspected and discontented persons -- Age and decay -- Abused her body -- The physician's poison -- Love and self-love -- Privy matters -- Foolish and old -- Mask of youth -- The poisoned pommel -- Crooked carcass -- Lèse majesté -- Dangerous and malicious ends -- No season to fool -- Age itself is a sickness -- All are in a dump at court -- Deathbed -- Regina Intacta -- The Queen's effigy -- Secret histories

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ocn846545247

Dimensions

24 cm

Edition

First American edition.

Extent

462 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates

Isbn

9780374239787

Isbn Type

(hardcover)

Lccn

2013036857

Media category

unmediated

Media MARC source

rdamedia

Other physical details

illustrations (some color), portraits

Record ID

u882562