humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

Lyra wrote:

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So far, I have discovered (at Oxford)

Sir Thomas Bodley (the Bodleian Library)

and Thomas Morley -

somehow I don't think it's either of them, though.

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Quote about Morley -

"Morley was believed to have known William Shakespeare and speculation
that he composed some music for his plays"

http://www.elizabethan-era.org.uk/thomas-morley.htm

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Also from the site -

(note, that Morley (like Bacon)

knew the Countress of Pembroke.)

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(quote)

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1589: Thomas Morley was employed as organist at St. Paul's Cathedral
in London
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Morley was believed to have known William Shakespeare and speculation
that he composed some music for his plays
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1593: Canzonets for three voices dedicated to the Countess of Pembroke
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1596: Morley was granted by Queen Elizabeth the monopoly of music
printing
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1598: Morley lived in the parish of St. Helen's, Bishopsgate, where
Shakespeare also was living in 1598
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1602:Thomas Morley died in October 1602 in London


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>
> For anyone wishing to look into this theory,
>
> here is something about Lettice Knollys...
>
>
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>
> (quote, excerpts)
>
>
> Lettice Knollys
>
> Lettice Knollys, Countess of Essex and Leicester (1540 - 25 December
> 1634) was born in Rotherfield Greys, Oxfordshire.
>
> Her father was Sir Francis Knollys, a gentleman pensioner of Henry
> VIII.
>
> Her mother was Lady Catherine Carey, the daughter of Lady Mary
> Boleyn.
>
> Catherine thus was the first cousin, and Lettice the first cousin once
> removed, of Elizabeth I of England. She grew up on her father's
> country estate at Greys Court in Rotherfield Greys and at his town
> house in nearby Reading.
>
> Sir Francis was an early Puritan, a fact that forced him and his
> family to flee to Switzerland, probably Basel, during the reign of
> Mary I of England. Upon the accession of Elizabeth, on November 17,
> 1558, the Knollys family returned to England. Francis was made
> Treasurer of the Household, Catherine and Lettice became Lady-in-
> Waiting and Maid-of-the-Court, respectively.
>
> Around 1560, Lettice married Walter Devereux, Viscount Hereford.
> Walter was named Earl of Essex in 1572, in honour of his services to
> the Queen. The couple lived at the Devereux family seat of Chartley
> Hall in Staffordshire, where Lettice bore her first two children:
> daughters Penelope (born 1562) and Dorothy Devereux (born 1564).
> Lettice eventually grew weary of country life and returned to court.
> It was here that she began her affair with Robert Dudley, Earl of
> Leicester, a childhood friend and favourite of Queen Elizabeth.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lettice_Knollys
>
>
> > ```````````````````
> >
> > Bacon, Lettuce and ...?
> >
> > ```````````````````
> >
> > Thinking about the well-known Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwich
>
> > - BLT
> > -
> >
> > not with a view to eating one, I'm a vegetarian -
> >
> > I wondered if here could be a found a clue to the era. ( of Bacon,
> > etc.)
> >
> > Francis Bacon, Lettice Knollys -
> >
> > and TOM AT O (Oxford University?) -
> >
> > Tom who? -
> >
> > all, at once, in the "bread" (money...)
> >
> > who knows why...