Death and the Virgin · Elizabeth, Dudley and the Mysterious Fate of Amy Robsart by Skidmore, Chris -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction PART ONE - Beginnings

1 - Rites of passage 2 - A meeting 3 - Carnal marriages 4 - My father’s heart 5 - Shameful slanders 6 - God will revenge 7 - These beasts do well behold 8 - Common conditions 9 - Anatomies of hearts 10 - Not being altogether in quiet 11 - Rehabilitation 12 - Men dismayed

PART TWO - God sent us our Elizabeth

13 - A passing 14 - Marvellous in our eyes 15 - Master of the Horse 16 - My Ladye 17 - Young folks, heretics and traitors 18 - The court 19 - Becoming queen 20 - Coronation 21 - God send our mistress a husband

PART THREE - A great resort of wooers

22 - Many great difficulties 23 - God hath increased you with honour 24 - A visit 25 - She is well worth the trouble 26 - A journey 27 - Te stante virebo 28 - Veracious news 29 - Cumnor Place 30 - No reputation in the world 31 - Let the malicious report what they list 32 - A deep dungeon of sorrow 33 - With as much speed as you can 34 - I dare not write that I might speak

PART FOUR - Either chance or villainy

35 - My wife is dead 36 - Well-chosen men 37 - It doth plainly appear 38 - So pitifully slain? 39 - An evil toy in her mind 40 - The coroner’s report

PART FIVE - He is infamed by the death of his wife

41 - Forget me not 42 - My ears glow to hear 43 - All the resort is to him 44 - Neither touching his honesty nor her honour 45 - If her Majesty so foully forget herself 46 - A proposal 47 - Many things handled of marriage 48 - Death possessed every part of me 49 - The inward, suspicious mind 50 - Sparks of dissention

PART SIX - We all be flesh and blood

51 - The murder of his sister 52 - Rather yet never had wife than lose them 53 - I may fall many ways 54 - No man can tell 55 - Your old patient 56 - Leicester’s Commonwealth 57 - The scar remains 58 - The Journal 59 - The queen’s man

Finis Appendices List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index