Article: Books: Queenly tale of royal excess; The First Elizabeth. By Carolly Erickson (Robson Books, pounds 17.95). An Elizabethan Progress. By Zillah Dovey (Sutton, pounds 10.99). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.(News)

The film Shakespeare in Love has certainly given Renaissance literature a boost. The Royal Shakespeare Theatre reports that bookings for the current season are up and visitors to Stratford head for the Birthplace to see where Joseph Fiennes was born (sorry, Shakespeare).

Judi Dench's Oscar-winning performance as the marvellously canny Elizabeth I has also helped to boost sales of books on the life of that extraordinary woman.

And so Carolly Erickson's colourful biography of the queen could not have been published at a more opportune moment and certainly it ...

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