humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

MM:
Both Philips died with a thigh injury. I've often mentioned that
Shakespeare was Jesus, and Mary Sidney Herbert (formerly Mary Sidney,
sister of Sir Philip Sidney) was Mary Magdalene. Apostle Philip must
have known Christ and Mary Magdalene. Christopher Marlowe was John
the Baptist.

If you read what Sir Philip Sidney wrote about "Arcadia," one of his
famous works, he mentions that he wrote it, because his sister Mary,
had requested it. But, he further emphasized that "IT WAS HER
COMMANDMENT."

Commands are given by Sat Gurus. I think it indicates rather clearly,
that Sir Philip Sidney knew the truth about his sister, Mary Sidney.
She was no ordinary sister. She, apparently, held SATSANG at Wilton,
with some very impressive mystics regularly attending, including Fulke
Greville, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and I'm sure, William
Shakespeare, and others. I'd say that Mary Sidney, also, must have
known the truth about her brother. She finished his works, when he
died.

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http://www.imt.net/~gedison/apostle.html

<is a Greek name meaning "Lover of horses"). In Hierapolis (Turkey)
Philip and Bartholomew saved the sick wife of the Roman Proconsul. As
a result she became a Christian which politically embarrassed her
husband. He sentenced both apostles to death by crucifixion. The
Proconsul is reported to have told Philip "denounce Jesus and save
your lives." Philip answered "accept Jesus and save your soul."
Somehow Bartholomew escaped but Philip was martyred, being "pierced
through the thigh and hung upside down until dead." He was 87 at the
time of his death.>>
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http://www.luminarium.org/renlit/sidbio.htm

Life of Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)


Sir Philip Sidney was born on November 30, 1554, at Penshurst, Kent.
He was the eldest son of Sir Henry Sidney, Lord Deputy of Ireland, and
nephew of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester. He was named after his
godfather, King Philip II of Spain.

After private tutelage, Philip Sidney entered Shrewsbury School at the
age of ten in 1564, on the same day as Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke,
who became his fast friend and, later, his biographer. After attending
Christ Church, Oxford, (1568-1571) he left without taking a degree in
order to complete his education by travelling the continent. Among the
places he visited were Paris, Frankfurt, Venice, and Vienna.

Sidney returned to England in 1575, living the life of a popular and
eminent courtier. In 1577, he was sent as ambassador to the German
Emperor and the Prince of Orange. Officially, he had been sent to
condole the princes on the deaths of their fathers. His real mission
was to feel out the chances for the creation of a Protestant league.
Yet, the budding diplomatic career was cut short because Queen
Elizabeth I found Sidney to be perhaps too ardent in his
Protestantism, the Queen preferring a more cautious approach.

Upon his return, Sidney attended the court of Elizabeth I, and was
considered "the flower of chivalry." He was also a patron of the
arts, actively encouraging such authors as Edward Dyer, Greville, and
most importantly, the young poet Edmund Spenser, who dedicated The
Shepheardes Calender to him. In 1580, he incurred the Queen
Elizabeth's displeasure by opposing her projected marriage to the Duke
of Anjou, Roman Catholic heir to the French throne, and was dismissed
from court for a time. He left the court for the estate of his
cherished sister Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke. During his stay,
he wrote the long pastoral romance Arcadia.

At some uncertain date, he composed a major piece of critical prose
that was published after his death under the two titles, The Defence
of Poesy and An Apology for Poetry. Sidney's Astrophil and Stella
("Starlover and Star") was begun probably around 1576, during his
courtship with Penelope Devereux. Astrophil and Stella, which
includes 108 sonnets and 11 songs, is the first in the long line of
Elizabethan sonnet cycles. Most of the sonnets are influenced by
Petrarchan conventions -- the abject lover laments the coldness of his
beloved lady towards him, even though he is so true of love and her
neglect causes him so much anguish. Lady Penelope was married to Lord
Rich in 1581; Sidney married Frances Walsingham, daughter of Sir
Francis Walsingham, in 1583. The Sidneys had one daughter, Elizabeth,
later Countess of Rutland.

While Sidney's career as courtier ran smoothly, he was growing
restless with lack of appointments. In 1585, he made a covert attempt
to join Sir Francis Drake's expedition to Cadiz without Queen
Elizabeth's permission. Elizabeth instead summoned Sidney to court,
and appointed him governor of Flushing in the Netherlands. In 1586
Sidney, along with his younger brother Robert Sidney, another poet in
this family of poets, took part in a skirmish against the Spanish at
Zutphen, and was wounded of a musket shot that shattered his thigh-
bone. Some twenty-two days later Sidney died of the unhealed wound at
not yet thirty-two years of age. His death occasioned much mourning in
England as the Queen and her subjects grieved for the man who had come
to exemplify the ideal courtier. It is said that Londoners, come out
to see the funeral progression, cried out "Farewell, the worthiest
knight that lived." 1

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Michael Martin