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 205
... Lavatch , in All's Well , is a " country clown who is sent to Court . " Touchstone " woos a country maiden and decides to wed her . " Lavatch " loses interest in his country maiden and forsakes her after he has been to Court , all the ...
... Lavatch , in All's Well , is a " country clown who is sent to Court . " Touchstone " woos a country maiden and decides to wed her . " Lavatch " loses interest in his country maiden and forsakes her after he has been to Court , all the ...
Page 219
... Lavatch got his name . After writing again of Nebuchadnezzar and the " narrowe . . . waye , that leadeth to lyfe " ( EC , 149 , 146 ′ ) , Southwell says of Catholic martyrs : " Well may they be called , the neat or kine of the church ...
... Lavatch got his name . After writing again of Nebuchadnezzar and the " narrowe . . . waye , that leadeth to lyfe " ( EC , 149 , 146 ′ ) , Southwell says of Catholic martyrs : " Well may they be called , the neat or kine of the church ...
Page 225
... Lavatch , who in the play was the comic opposite of Southwell's martyred “ kine ” and an agent of religious satire ; but the clown was hardly an ethical model or a privileged voice , and the earl was surely able to see the limitations ...
... Lavatch , who in the play was the comic opposite of Southwell's martyred “ kine ” and an agent of religious satire ; but the clown was hardly an ethical model or a privileged voice , and the earl was surely able to see the limitations ...
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