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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Page 68
... Comfort ( 190 103 ' ) . That the Epistle of Comfort in some way lies behind Bottom's speech may be inferred by another consideration . Soon after quot- ing from Second Corinthians , Southwell refers to an episode in the Acts of the ...
... Comfort ( 190 103 ' ) . That the Epistle of Comfort in some way lies behind Bottom's speech may be inferred by another consideration . Soon after quot- ing from Second Corinthians , Southwell refers to an episode in the Acts of the ...
Page 69
... Comfort collaterally with the Metamorphoses . Southwell's work itself has several Ovidian moments , alluding to the story of Phaethon as well as Deucalion ( 68 , 651 ) , and telling the biblical story of Joseph's coat in terms that ...
... Comfort collaterally with the Metamorphoses . Southwell's work itself has several Ovidian moments , alluding to the story of Phaethon as well as Deucalion ( 68 , 651 ) , and telling the biblical story of Joseph's coat in terms that ...
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... comfort ? " She answers : " As all comforts are : most good , most good indeed . " The " remedy " for his predicament that Isabella first announces deeply disappoints her brother , for it is nothing less than death . Lord Angelo insists ...
... comfort ? " She answers : " As all comforts are : most good , most good indeed . " The " remedy " for his predicament that Isabella first announces deeply disappoints her brother , for it is nothing less than death . Lord Angelo insists ...
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