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The prolific and erudite biographer and novelist Wilson (Dante in Love) offers little that is new in this study of Elizabethan England, but his account is worth reading nevertheless. It's history from the top—monarch and nobles, writers, courtiers, adventurers and explorers—but Wilson doesn't ignore the parlous condition of the poor, and his account of this time is sympathetic. Understandably, given Wilson's...Log In or Sign Up to Read More