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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... story is a myth ) describes how the " poet's pen " waits on his imagination , a seething " brain " which " bodies forth " the " shapes " of " things unknown . " By supposing some " fear " in the " night " this wayward faculty turns a ...
... story is a myth ) describes how the " poet's pen " waits on his imagination , a seething " brain " which " bodies forth " the " shapes " of " things unknown . " By supposing some " fear " in the " night " this wayward faculty turns a ...
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... story of Phaethon as well as Deucalion ( 68 , 651 ) , and telling the biblical story of Joseph's coat in terms that could have reminded the dramatist both of Thisbe's garment and of Pyramus's mistake : " When Jacobe sawe the cote of his ...
... story of Phaethon as well as Deucalion ( 68 , 651 ) , and telling the biblical story of Joseph's coat in terms that could have reminded the dramatist both of Thisbe's garment and of Pyramus's mistake : " When Jacobe sawe the cote of his ...
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... story in Vienna.68 It is conceivable that these alterations reflect the usual Shakespearean creativity in han- dling a source , one that Hamlet called an " extant " story " written in very choice Italian " ( 3.2.262-63 ) . Such a work ...
... story in Vienna.68 It is conceivable that these alterations reflect the usual Shakespearean creativity in han- dling a source , one that Hamlet called an " extant " story " written in very choice Italian " ( 3.2.262-63 ) . Such a work ...
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