Shakespeare the ElizabethanNo writer was more a man of the theatre than William Shakespeare -- player, playwright, producer; man of business, with a share in the Lord Chamberlain's Company and the Globe theater, part-owner of the Blackfriars. His career was an Elizabethan success-story. Here it is portrayed in Shakespeare's close association with that circle -- the young Earl of Southampton of the Poems and Sonnets, his patron whose step-father was Vice-Chamberlain; Lord Chamberlain Hunsdon himself, whose mistress, Emilia Bassano, was taken over for a time by the dramatist. |
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... theme of the Hundred Years ' War with France - always popular , it brought back memories of Agincourt and Crécy , Henry the hero - king and brave , fighting Talbot . Nash bears witness to the public response to seeing Talbot brought ...
... theme of the Hundred Years ' War with France - always popular , it brought back memories of Agincourt and Crécy , Henry the hero - king and brave , fighting Talbot . Nash bears witness to the public response to seeing Talbot brought ...
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... theme of the young Earl's duty to marry , carry on the family , and duplicate his own beauty - dedicates them to the patron : Lord of my love , to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit , To thee I send this written ...
... theme of the young Earl's duty to marry , carry on the family , and duplicate his own beauty - dedicates them to the patron : Lord of my love , to whom in vassalage Thy merit hath my duty strongly knit , To thee I send this written ...
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... theme , Love's Labour's Lost . In the play the young courtiers around the King of Navarre abjure the society of women for a year to give themselves up study . The joke is all the better because Henry of Navarre - well known to Essex ...
... theme , Love's Labour's Lost . In the play the young courtiers around the King of Navarre abjure the society of women for a year to give themselves up study . The joke is all the better because Henry of Navarre - well known to Essex ...
Contents
Stratford Beginnings | 9 |
The Rival Poet and the Dark Lady | 29 |
The Lord Chamberlains Company | 42 |
Copyright | |
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