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As a work of English literature this audiobook should be gauged by Shakespearean measures. A voice of resolute vociferation is required to speak these couplets well....

In 1580, the new Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Arthur Grey de Wilton, came to Dublin with 3000 troops to end the Desmond Rebellion....

The earls of Essex and Southampton are tried together for high treason before a jury of the noblest peers....

After his disobedient return from Ireland, the Earl of Essex was kept in house arrest, first in York House, then in his own palace, Essex House....

James Burbage, the founder of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's acting company, is countered by Lady Elizabeth Russell when he constructs a theatre....

Cato, the enemy of Caesar, escaped with other Roman senators and remnant legions from the battle of Pharsalus to the Libyan coast, where again Caesar defeated them....

In diverse financial scrimmages, Jay Gould and his adversaries fought to survive and prosper in the difficult markets of the early 1880s....

This historical drama maintains the classical form of tragedy in English, with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances....

Rodrigo Lopez, former physician to Queen Elizabeth, and his supposed accessories are questioned in the Tower on the charge of treason....

Rodrigo Lopez gave offense to the Earl of Essex by revealing his ailments at a feast to both Don Antonio, the deposed king of Portugal, and Antonio Perez....