SCOTT, WALTER
No historian`s Queen Elizabeth was ever so perfectly a woman as the fictitious Elizabeth of Kenilworth, wrote Thomas Hardy. Scott`s magnificent novel recreates the drama and the strange mixture of assurance and profound unease of the age of Elizabeth through the story of Amy Robsart. A woman of great beauty and integrity, Amy is married to the Earl of Leicester, one of the queen`s favorites, who must keep his marriage secret or else incur royal displeasure. Rich in character, melodrama, and romance, Kenilworth is rivaled only by the great Elizabethan dramas.
Walter Scott (Edimburgo, 1771- Abbotsford, 1832), maestro del diálogo y la descripción, influyó en los novelistas románticos de su tiempo y también en los músicos y pintores que recrearon su obra. Sus principales obras son, además de El pirata, Waverley, El anticuario, Rob Roy, Ivanhoe y El talismán.