Critical Book Review of “Elizabethans” By Patrick Collinson

Find and utilize reviews written about your chosen book and to summarize the scholarly consensus about the book’s value and the contributions of its author. Most of these authors are well-known and prolific. You will need to situate the book you are examining within the body of work produced by the author. Is this book a departure from previously published material? Or does it build on views presented elsewhere by the author, i.e. in other books or journal articles?

What do you think the author was trying to accomplish in writing this book? What was his/her thesis? Was it a persuasive thesis? Was it thought-provoking? Did the book help you to look at a particular topic in a new way? What sort of evidence did the author marshal to provide support for the argument presented? What problems/weaknesses do you perceive in the work? You might conclude by assessing the value of the book as a work of scholarship. For what audience and for what purpose is this book most appropriate?
Please do not answer each question individually but as a whole in the essay
There is no need to answer every question as on as it covers a majority of them
The Sources should have at least 2 reputable secondary sources, but websites can be used as well aside from those 2 if they are related. It is also 5 sources minimum so please add more sources if possible