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 85
... Saint's example . He made Roman Lucrece an " earthly saint " adored and violated by the " devil " Tarquin ( Lucrece , 85 ) , giving both characters plausible , if extreme , psychic life and a rhetoric to match . In a typical passage ...
... Saint's example . He made Roman Lucrece an " earthly saint " adored and violated by the " devil " Tarquin ( Lucrece , 85 ) , giving both characters plausible , if extreme , psychic life and a rhetoric to match . In a typical passage ...
Page 86
... Saint Peter , the most voluble of Southwell's complain- ing saints is Mary Magdalen , a heroine who ( though not a model of perpetual chastity ) shares with her Roman counterpart an absolute and self - denying attachment to her " Lord ...
... Saint Peter , the most voluble of Southwell's complain- ing saints is Mary Magdalen , a heroine who ( though not a model of perpetual chastity ) shares with her Roman counterpart an absolute and self - denying attachment to her " Lord ...
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... saint is raped , a fate that in Measure for Measure the saint avoids ; but the heroines of poem and play , each in her own way , confuse rather than clarify moral issues in their adherence to absolute prin- ciple : neither the martyrdom ...
... saint is raped , a fate that in Measure for Measure the saint avoids ; but the heroines of poem and play , each in her own way , confuse rather than clarify moral issues in their adherence to absolute prin- ciple : neither the martyrdom ...
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