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