Yes, she's a bad writer. It's a pity because the material she is covering, the fever of Elizabethan rhetorical inventiveness, including in the written form, is

Yes, she's a bad writer. It's a pity because the material she is covering, the fever of Elizabethan rhetorical inventiveness, including in the written form, is so rich & interesting. She pulls out useful detail & quotes but then links it together with her own overwritten & eccentric prose.