IN ELIZABETH’S ENGLAND
GLORIANA. By C. E. Lawrence. John Murray, London, It is hard to see history in true perspective, There are usually two conceptions of an age-the highly romantic, and the drearily realistic--and neither of them is correct. But in "Gloriana," C. E. Lawrence has caught the spirit of Elizabethan England without overdrawing anything or exaggerating the brilliance of the period. This he achieves by the simple method of making his hero a member of a group of strolling players who wander from town to town, coming at last to Bur. bage’s Theatre, the Globe, in Shoreditch, where he meets Shakespeare. Indeed, great names dot the pages of this book-Marlowe, Shakespeare, Burbage, the Earl of Sussex, and Lord Burghley, besides, of course, the queen herself,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 1, Issue 1, 30 June 1939, Page 10
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