Shakespeare, the Earl, and the JesuitThe name of the Jesuit Robert Southwell has now and then been linked with Shakespeare's, but vaguely and tentatively. The name of Henry Wriothesley, third earl of Southampton, has been perennially been linked with Shakespeare's, sometimes not vaguely and tentatively enough. This book offers reasons for believing in a relationship among the three men, who were "kinsmen" as their contemporaries understood the term. --From publisher's description. |
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... all of its resemblances to All's Well in situation and theme would prove the most notable example - but in Venus and Adonis , 27 a clear prototype of All's Well and the first poem that Shakespeare dedicated to the earl of Southampton ...
... all of its resemblances to All's Well in situation and theme would prove the most notable example - but in Venus and Adonis , 27 a clear prototype of All's Well and the first poem that Shakespeare dedicated to the earl of Southampton ...
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... All's Well ) is a king's ward and protests his arranged marriage , but in Italy he is only , as Painter translates , a " cap- taine " ( G. K. Hunter , ed . , All's Well that Ends Well , 148 ) . 8. Akrigg , Shakespeare and the Earl of ...
... All's Well ) is a king's ward and protests his arranged marriage , but in Italy he is only , as Painter translates , a " cap- taine " ( G. K. Hunter , ed . , All's Well that Ends Well , 148 ) . 8. Akrigg , Shakespeare and the Earl of ...
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... All's Well , see Shaheen , Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays . Shaheen notes that among all of the Tudor and Stuart translations , only the Catholic Rheims ( like Southwell ) has the " narrow " gate , all others reading ...
... All's Well , see Shaheen , Biblical References in Shakespeare's Plays . Shaheen notes that among all of the Tudor and Stuart translations , only the Catholic Rheims ( like Southwell ) has the " narrow " gate , all others reading ...
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