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 77
... passage in Southwell's writing that may suggest itself as a source or imagina- tive catalyst , the Jesuit's words and notions apparently serving as a link between poem and play . Such are Southwell's references to " natures blots , " to ...
... passage in Southwell's writing that may suggest itself as a source or imagina- tive catalyst , the Jesuit's words and notions apparently serving as a link between poem and play . Such are Southwell's references to " natures blots , " to ...
Page 176
... passage combines familiar aphorisms about the equality of all at the table of the worm of death80 with a punning reference to the Diet of Worms , presided over by the Emperor Charles V , at which Luther's refusal to recant led to his ...
... passage combines familiar aphorisms about the equality of all at the table of the worm of death80 with a punning reference to the Diet of Worms , presided over by the Emperor Charles V , at which Luther's refusal to recant led to his ...
Page 294
... passage in Hamlet a satiric attack by Shakespeare , from a Protestant point of view , on the " crude materialism " of the Catholic Eucharist . The supper , Greenblatt says , “ where the host does not eat but is eaten is the Supper of ...
... passage in Hamlet a satiric attack by Shakespeare , from a Protestant point of view , on the " crude materialism " of the Catholic Eucharist . The supper , Greenblatt says , “ where the host does not eat but is eaten is the Supper of ...
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