These six plays of "Elizabeth R" are a royal progress in which six authors have shared, which both animate history and clarify it. They present the exciting world of England during the Gloriana's glorious reign. No English monarch, with the exception of her father, has inspired so many writers: fittingly, because she was a tireless patron of literature and of the developing stage. To use now the epithet 'Elizabethan' means a time of new discovery and hope, a world expanding, an age of the sword and the madrigal. No monarch had to more of a diplomatist than the imperious ruler who was called the Virgin Queen, who rigidly put her country before herself. In these teleplays, actress Glenda Jackson more than proved that she could bear the burden of a complex part. In six strongly dramatic texts we fin Elizabeth in and before the turmoil of history's most resplendent reign: from her daunting girlhood to those final years when winter had stolen at last upon the glory of the Tudor rose. To the end, she was Elizabeth, the Queen.