Abstract
The slow working of time has reversed many a verdict once rendered against a reputation, literary or otherwise, relegating to a minor place or even to oblivion many a personage famous in his own day, raising many another to a position of respect, even of esteem. |Elizabeth Tudor lavishly praised by her subjects as "good Queen Bess" has of late been depicted in her true character as a vain, selfish, dissolute hypocrite. The high intellectual gifts and attainments long credited to her by historians have been called into question by such recent studies as The Monstrous Regiment by Christopher Hollis.