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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... Epistle of Comfort An Epistle unto His Father An Humble Supplication to Her Majestie Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares Saint Peters Complaint Short Rules of a Good Life The Triumphs over Death The Bible is cited from the Geneva version of ...
... Epistle of Comfort An Epistle unto His Father An Humble Supplication to Her Majestie Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares Saint Peters Complaint Short Rules of a Good Life The Triumphs over Death The Bible is cited from the Geneva version of ...
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... Epistle of Com- fort : Portia Shyock Portia MV , 4.1.182-205 Then must the Jew be merciful . On what compulsion must I ? tell me that ? The quality of mercy is not strain'd , It droppeth as the gentle rain . from heaven Upon the place ...
... Epistle of Com- fort : Portia Shyock Portia MV , 4.1.182-205 Then must the Jew be merciful . On what compulsion must I ? tell me that ? The quality of mercy is not strain'd , It droppeth as the gentle rain . from heaven Upon the place ...
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... play's verbal precedents in The Epistle of Comfort congregate around the single recto containing " quality " and " mercy , " with the following leaf furnishing the highly significant " Jews " and " compulsion . " It INTRODUCTION 33.
... play's verbal precedents in The Epistle of Comfort congregate around the single recto containing " quality " and " mercy , " with the following leaf furnishing the highly significant " Jews " and " compulsion . " It INTRODUCTION 33.
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... Epistle furnish similar and in some cases even more striking parallels with passages from Measure for Measure , 22 and from Julius Caesar ? JC , 3.1.256-75 Thou art the ruins of the noblest man ... Woe to the hand that shed this costly ...
... Epistle furnish similar and in some cases even more striking parallels with passages from Measure for Measure , 22 and from Julius Caesar ? JC , 3.1.256-75 Thou art the ruins of the noblest man ... Woe to the hand that shed this costly ...
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... Epistle produces , then , only a single element — but a legitimate one — in a sequence of probabilities of different kinds that must be combined to clinch the argument that Shakespeare remembered Southwell's work in composing his own ...
... Epistle produces , then , only a single element — but a legitimate one — in a sequence of probabilities of different kinds that must be combined to clinch the argument that Shakespeare remembered Southwell's work in composing his own ...
Contents
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Lucrece | 75 |
Ephesus Rome and London | 109 |
Hamlet | 145 |
Alls Well that Ends Well | 201 |
Measure for Measure | 226 |
Conclusion | 256 |
Notes | 260 |
Bibliography | 311 |
Index | 326 |
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