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 184
... Heaven , " its tribunal , and summoning officer , who has in forgiveness of his murderer prayed that Laertes be absolved by heaven's court ( 5.2.332-36 ) , a final instinctive belief in the silence of personal extinction ? It is un ...
... Heaven , " its tribunal , and summoning officer , who has in forgiveness of his murderer prayed that Laertes be absolved by heaven's court ( 5.2.332-36 ) , a final instinctive belief in the silence of personal extinction ? It is un ...
Page 189
... heaven , as though he had been destined to be its culpable " scourge " even as he served its will as “ minister " : I do repent ; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this , and this with me , That I must be their scourge and ...
... heaven , as though he had been destined to be its culpable " scourge " even as he served its will as “ minister " : I do repent ; but heaven hath pleas'd it so To punish me with this , and this with me , That I must be their scourge and ...
Page 250
... heaven's image In stamps that are forbid . . . . Isabella . ' Tis set down so in heaven , but not in earth . ( 2.4.42-50 ) Isabella , who is often accused of a simplistic moral absolutism , not only defies this caricature by suggesting ...
... heaven's image In stamps that are forbid . . . . Isabella . ' Tis set down so in heaven , but not in earth . ( 2.4.42-50 ) Isabella , who is often accused of a simplistic moral absolutism , not only defies this caricature by suggesting ...
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