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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... considered as a source for anything in Shakespeare unless we are willing to admit into evidence the scantest of parallels , that in their accumulation become less and less easy to dismiss . A number of considerations suggest themselves ...
... considered as a source for anything in Shakespeare unless we are willing to admit into evidence the scantest of parallels , that in their accumulation become less and less easy to dismiss . A number of considerations suggest themselves ...
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... considered should be the one about which critics interested in Southwell have been most willing to vent their suspicions , Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis . Devlin's theory that Southwell had urged Southampton to discourage the author of ...
... considered should be the one about which critics interested in Southwell have been most willing to vent their suspicions , Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis . Devlin's theory that Southwell had urged Southampton to discourage the author of ...
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... considered his Jesuit cousin too much of a puritan , Southwell's religious rigor may be seen to have ramifications beyond its application to the sexual imagination of poets . Questions about Shakespeare's unstated purposes cannot , in ...
... considered his Jesuit cousin too much of a puritan , Southwell's religious rigor may be seen to have ramifications beyond its application to the sexual imagination of poets . Questions about Shakespeare's unstated purposes cannot , in ...
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... considered with those which can be established between the Jesuit's prose works and the play . Since some of this prose is " poetical " and some not , we might begin with the prose - poem Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares , published in ...
... considered with those which can be established between the Jesuit's prose works and the play . Since some of this prose is " poetical " and some not , we might begin with the prose - poem Marie Magdalens Funeral Teares , published in ...
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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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