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For a study of the Elizabethan court interlude Horestes by John Pikeryng (1567),

I am interested in detailed information about the sketch sent to William Cecil

of the Darnley murder.  Horestes utilizes a version of the Orestes story found

in Lydgate's Troy Book to offer oblique, allegorical commentary on the murder

of Darnley, for which his wife, Mary Queen of Scots, and her acquaintance Bothwell

were implicated.   There's a brief explanation of this contemporary sketch of the

murder scene, with prince James calling for vengeance in the upper lefthand corner,

in the hardcover edition of Antonia Fraser's Mary Queen of Scots after page 368.

I am wondering if other readings exist.

Thanks everyone,

Michael A. Winkelman

Assistant Professor of English

Earlham College

Richmond IN