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 154
... ghost , Lapt in some foul sheet or a leather pilch , [ That comes ] screaming like a pig half - stickt , And cries " Vindicta ! revenge , revenge ! ” 31 It is the only ghost from the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama that professes to come ...
... ghost , Lapt in some foul sheet or a leather pilch , [ That comes ] screaming like a pig half - stickt , And cries " Vindicta ! revenge , revenge ! ” 31 It is the only ghost from the Elizabethan and Jacobean drama that professes to come ...
Page 192
... ghost may still claim to be from purgatory and be welcomed by a student from the university . It is a ghost in which Hamlet's fellow Catholics may believe along with him , but whose origins they are also required to doubt . The spirit ...
... ghost may still claim to be from purgatory and be welcomed by a student from the university . It is a ghost in which Hamlet's fellow Catholics may believe along with him , but whose origins they are also required to doubt . The spirit ...
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... Ghost for an understanding of the play , see Michael Andrews , " Professor Prosser and the Ghost . " 105. See , for example , Battenhouse , " The Ghost in Hamlet : A Catholic ' Linchpin ' ? " 106. Prosser writes that " the purpose of ...
... Ghost for an understanding of the play , see Michael Andrews , " Professor Prosser and the Ghost . " 105. See , for example , Battenhouse , " The Ghost in Hamlet : A Catholic ' Linchpin ' ? " 106. Prosser writes that " the purpose of ...
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