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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... young man's social and financial well - being ; or Shakespeare may have sought to defend the earl against the charges of petulant self - love apparently leveled against him in the Ovidian poem Narcissus , written by Burghley's secre ...
... young man's social and financial well - being ; or Shakespeare may have sought to defend the earl against the charges of petulant self - love apparently leveled against him in the Ovidian poem Narcissus , written by Burghley's secre ...
Page 58
... young seem in the comedy to have the greater right to be arbitrary . The other woman in Southampton's life , and a significant pres- ence in the play , was the Queen herself . It has long been assumed that the playwright meant to ...
... young seem in the comedy to have the greater right to be arbitrary . The other woman in Southampton's life , and a significant pres- ence in the play , was the Queen herself . It has long been assumed that the playwright meant to ...
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... young courtier signs of her disfavor.54 Like every other nobleman , he understood that he could never achieve his ambitions without her blessing , which he assiduously sought . Yet Elizabeth had from his boyhood been the enemy of his ...
... young courtier signs of her disfavor.54 Like every other nobleman , he understood that he could never achieve his ambitions without her blessing , which he assiduously sought . Yet Elizabeth had from his boyhood been the enemy of his ...
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