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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... Southampton , has perennially been linked with Shakespeare's , sometimes not vaguely and tentatively enough . This book offers . distinct and credible reasons for believing in a relationship among the three men , who were " kinsmen " as ...
... Southampton , has perennially been linked with Shakespeare's , sometimes not vaguely and tentatively enough . This book offers . distinct and credible reasons for believing in a relationship among the three men , who were " kinsmen " as ...
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... Southampton , Henry Wriothesley , Earl of , 1573-1624 — Friends and associates . 4. Southwell , Robert , Saint , 1561 ? -1595 — Friends and associates . 5. Catholics — England — History — 16th century . 6. Influence ( Literary ...
... Southampton , Henry Wriothesley , Earl of , 1573-1624 — Friends and associates . 4. Southwell , Robert , Saint , 1561 ? -1595 — Friends and associates . 5. Catholics — England — History — 16th century . 6. Influence ( Literary ...
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... Southampton ; and we must examine in detail Shakespeare's hidden preoccupation with the works and perhaps the person of a Jesuit : the poet , controversialist , and martyr , Robert Southwell . The linkage of these three men , so ...
... Southampton ; and we must examine in detail Shakespeare's hidden preoccupation with the works and perhaps the person of a Jesuit : the poet , controversialist , and martyr , Robert Southwell . The linkage of these three men , so ...
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... Southampton and stood as a Catholic authority whom this scion of a most Catholic family could not ignore ; Southwell was a more distant kinsman of Shakespeare , and the Catholic voice to which Shakespeare seemed to pay the most serious ...
... Southampton and stood as a Catholic authority whom this scion of a most Catholic family could not ignore ; Southwell was a more distant kinsman of Shakespeare , and the Catholic voice to which Shakespeare seemed to pay the most serious ...
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... Southampton's widowed mother to the court official Sir Thomas Heneage . At an- other point of crisis in Southampton's life , he would have much to meditate upon in Hamlet , a play whose echoes of Southwell are in fact startling . And as ...
... Southampton's widowed mother to the court official Sir Thomas Heneage . At an- other point of crisis in Southampton's life , he would have much to meditate upon in Hamlet , a play whose echoes of Southwell are in fact startling . And as ...
Contents
37 | |
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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