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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... meanings can become open and pliable , even tantalizingly evasive in the post- modern way . Anonymity blocks resort to " personal heresy " or " in- tentional fallacy " in literary criticism , practices that seem to elevate the author ...
... meanings can become open and pliable , even tantalizingly evasive in the post- modern way . Anonymity blocks resort to " personal heresy " or " in- tentional fallacy " in literary criticism , practices that seem to elevate the author ...
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... meaning . Yet it is much more diffi- cult , and often impossible , to identify most of Shakespeare's read- ing . Certain verses or phrases from the Bible , for example , he may have recalled from hearing rather than reading , or seen ...
... meaning . Yet it is much more diffi- cult , and often impossible , to identify most of Shakespeare's read- ing . Certain verses or phrases from the Bible , for example , he may have recalled from hearing rather than reading , or seen ...
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... meaning " of King Lear . 24 Perhaps as well , and antecedently , the playwright's interest in Harsnett's book derived from the prominence it gave to one of the exorcists , Richard Dibdale . The family of this seminary priest from ...
... meaning " of King Lear . 24 Perhaps as well , and antecedently , the playwright's interest in Harsnett's book derived from the prominence it gave to one of the exorcists , Richard Dibdale . The family of this seminary priest from ...
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... meanings , but to increase the number of legitimate meanings that may coexist within them . Put another way , a search for some of the poet's narrowly defined purposes ( Meinungen ) and for possible occasions for his work will not ...
... meanings , but to increase the number of legitimate meanings that may coexist within them . Put another way , a search for some of the poet's narrowly defined purposes ( Meinungen ) and for possible occasions for his work will not ...
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... is Shakespeare's choice of Venus as a subject after reading an exhortation from the Jesuit poet to the " finest wits " that they forsake her . What is the meaning of such apparent defiance of a " cousin " and 1 : CONNECTIONS 55.
... is Shakespeare's choice of Venus as a subject after reading an exhortation from the Jesuit poet to the " finest wits " that they forsake her . What is the meaning of such apparent defiance of a " cousin " and 1 : CONNECTIONS 55.
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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