A. L. Rowse

A. L. Rowse (1903-1997) was a fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford. The general editor of the Oxford Shakespeare, he achieved worldwide fame when he claimed the elusive Dark Lady of the sonnets was Emilia Lanier. He published more than ninety books of history, poems, biography, and criticism, including The Expansion of Elizabethan England. Christopher Haigh is lecturer in modern history at Christ Church College, University of Oxford. His books include Elizabeth I and English Reformations.