humanities.lit.authors.shakespeare

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> > The dedication to The Rape of Lucrece, 1594:
>
> > TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE HENRY WRIOTHESLEY,
>
> > EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON AND BARON OF TICHFIELD
>
> > The love I dedicate to your Lordship is without end, whereof this
> > pamphlet, without beginning, is but a superfluous moiety. The warrant
> > I have of your honourable disposition, not the *WORTHies* of my
> > untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is
> > yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted
> > yours. Were my *WORTHies* greater, my duty would show greater;
> > meantime, as it is, it is bound to your Lordship, to whom
> > I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness.
>
> > Your Lordship's in all duty,
> > WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
> > --------------------------
> > * =EF=BF=BDGabriel Harvey's marginialia, ca. 1603:
>
> > Gabriel Harvey, scholar, intimate friend to Spenser, enemy of Nashe, a
> > man with his hand on the literary pulse of his time, and an inveterate
> > marginal annotator wrote this now famous marginalia in his copy of
> > Speght's Chaucer, which he signed and dated twice, 1598:
>
> > The Earle of Essex much commendes Albions England :
> > and not *unWORTHily* for *DIUERSE* notable pageants,
> > before, & in the Chronicle. Sum Inglish, & other
> > Histories nowhere more sensibly described, or more inwardly
> > *DIscoUERED* . The Lord Daniel, Mountioy makes the like account of
> > Daniels peece of the Chronicle, touching the Vsurpation of Henrie of
> > Bullingbrooke. which in deede is a fine, sententious, & politique
> > peece of Poetrie: as profitable, as pleasurable. =EF=BF=BDThe younger so=
rt
> > takes much delight in Shakespeares Venus, & Adonis : but his Lucrece,
> > & his tragedie of =EF=BF=BDHamlet, Prince of Denmarke haue it in them,
> > to please =EF=BF=BDthe wiser sort. Or such poets : or better : or none.
>
> > Vilia miretur vulgus : mihi flavus Apollo
> > Pocula Castaliae plena ministret aquae :
>
> > quoth Sir Edward Dier, betwene iest, & earnest. Whose written deuises
> > farr excell most of the sonets, and cantos in print. His Amaryllis, &
> > Sir Walter Raleighs Cynthia how fine & sweet inuentions? Excellent
> > matter of emulation =EF=BF=BDfor Spencer, Constable, France, Watson, Dan=
iel,
> > Warner, Chapman, Siluester, Shakespeare, & the rest =EF=BF=BD of owr
> > florishing metricians...I have a phansie to Owens new Epigrams, as
> > pithie as elegant, as plesant as sharp, & sumtime as weightie as
> > breife..." (Gabriel Harvey's Marginalia, G. C. Moore Smith,
> > 1913, p. 232-233).
> > --------------------------
> > * =EF=BF=BD1612 - Heywood's Complaint. =EF=BF=BDIn 1612 the third editio=
n of The
> > Passionate Pilgrim appeared, printed by William Jaggard. =EF=BF=BDIt was=

> > attributed to W. Shakespeare, but only two sonnets and three passages
> > from Love's Labour's Lost contained therein were the work of
> > Shakespeare. =EF=BF=BDThe rest of the poems were works by Marlowe, Barnf=
ield,
> > Raleigh, and, in the third edition, Heywood, taken from his Troia
> > Britannica. =EF=BF=BDHe complained bitterly and publicly in an epistle h=
e
> > appended to his =EF=BF=BDApologie for Actors, printed later in 1612 by
> > Nicholas Okes, in which he makes reference to Shakespeare's
> > Sonnets and also Shakespeare's reaction to Jaggard's
> > using his name without authorization.
>
> > Among the filler in the third edition of The Passionate Pilgrim are
> > sEVERal poems by Thomas Heywood, notably including two love epistles
> > translated by Heywood from Ovid's Heroides which were published as
> > part of his Troia Britannica or Great Britain's Troy (1609 - printed
> > by William Jaggard), an epistle of Paris to Helen and one of Helen to
> > Paris which are trumpeted on the title page, =EF=BF=BDa transcription of=
which
> > is reproduced here from Rolfe's edition of 1906:
>
> > The title pages of all editions (apparently, since the title page to
> > the first edition is not extant) of The Passionate Pilgrim attribute
> > all the works contained therein to "W. Shakespere." =EF=BF=BDThe printer=
of
> > the orginal Troia Britannica was the same William Jaggard, who, as we
> > will see, answered Heywood so insolently when he was requested to
> > print a list of his errata. =EF=BF=BDWith this as background, here is
> > Heywood's epistle to Okes, taken from Literary Blunders:
> > A Chapter in the "History of Human Error" by H. B. Wheatley:
>
> > To my approved good Friend, MR. NICHOLAS OKES.
>
> > The infinite faults escaped in my booke of Britaines Troy by the
> > negligence of the printer, as the misquotations, mistaking the
> > sillables, misplacing halfe lines, coining of strange and nEVER heard
> > of words, these being without number, when I would have taken a
> > particular account of the errata, the printer answered me, hee would
> > not publish his owne disworkemanship, but rather let his owne fault
> > lye upon the necke of the author. And being fearefull that others of
> > his quality had beene of the same nature and condition, and finding
> > you, on the contrary, so carefull and industrious, so serious and
> > laborious to doe the author all the rights of the presse, I could not
> > choose but gratulate your honest indeavours with this short
> > remembrance. Here, likewise, I must necessarily insert a manifest
> > injury done me in that worke, by taking the two epistles of Paris to
> > Helen, and Helen to Paris, and printing them in a lesse volume under
> > the name of another, which may put the world in opinion I might steale
> > them from him, and hee, to doe himselfe right, hath since published
> > them in his owne name; but as I must acknowledge my lines *not WORTHy*
> > his patronage under whom he hath publisht them, so the author, I know,
> > much offended with M. Jaggard (that altogether unknowne to him)
> > presumed to make so bold with his name. These and the like
> > dishonesties I knowe you to bee cleere of ; and I could wish
> > but to bee the happy author of so *WORTHy* a worke as
> > I could willingly commit to your care and workmanship.
>
> > Yours EVER, THOMAS HEYWOOD
> > ----------------------------------
> > Epistle Dedicatory To The First Folio, 1623
>
> > TO THE MOST NOBLE A N D
> > INCOMPARABLE PAIRE OF BRETHREN
>
> > Right Honourable,
>
> > For, so much were your L.L. likings of the sEVERall parts, when
> > they were acted, as before they were published, the Volume ask'd
> > to be yours. We have but collected them, and done an office to the
> > dead, to procure his Orphanes, Guardians; without ambition either
> > of selfe-profit, or fame: onely to keepe the memory of
> > so *WORTHy* a Friend, & Fellow alive, as was our
> > S H A K E S P E A R E ,
>
> MM:
> Yes, the gentleman from Stratford, not Edward de Vere.
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The gentleman from Stratford: Edward de Vere
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13 people were burned at the stake on June 27, 1556
at STRATFORD atte Bowe [in London]. One of them:
=2E
_ "John Routh said, that he was convented
_ before the [16th] earle of Oxford,
_ and by him sent to the Castle of Colchester:"
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____ STRATFORD upon Avon
________ Guild Chapel
_______ white-WASHING
_______ CHAMBERLAIN
________ ALDERMAN/Bailiff
_________________________ /----------------------\
______________ John ----- MARY MARgerY Webbe
_____ [wrote his 'marke'] | [wrote her 'marke']__[d. St.Adrian's]
__[bur. St.Adrian's Day]- | [d. St.Adrian's Day]
_________________ |
_______ /---------------\ ___________ [illiterate]
=2E MARgerY Shakspere ------------ Anne
_______________ | [b. 1556]
_ [BROOK House] __ | [only son,
___ [Shaxpere's Boys] | b.1584, dies]
___- [Shaxpere Gloves] |
___- [ *TANNERY* ] |
__ [TINer of AVERland] __ |
_ [Cervantes' "lame hand" ] |
___ [W. Smith : mentor] |
|||||| [Catholic Relatives persecuted] |
____ [Thomas Trussell] |
_ [Sweet Swan of Avon] |
___ [By ME : WIL(cu)L] __ |
____- [Bend Spear crest] |
_______- [Golding's 'OVID'] |
__ [Camden's: 'pregnant witt'] |
______ [Qu. of Scots Trial] |
___ [Yoricke's Scounce] |
___ ["Gentleman" poet] |
_ [NESTOR reference] |
|||||||||| [MERMAID tAVERn] __ |
_ ['For TRUTH is TRUTH'] |
_____- [Paul's 'I am that I am'] |
|||||| [Hamlet's 'To Be or not To Be'] |
|||||||||| [stole from Raphael Holinshed] |
- [1586 deer park poacher] |
||||||||||||||||| [pinch-FART penny-FATheR] |
||||||||||||||||| [1616 Faust/FAMA Frat. death] |
|||||||||||||||||| [John Manningham's 1602 diary] |
_-- [=C2=A31,000/year for 18 years] |
_ [- Item, =C2=A310 unto the poore ] |
| [ARD(en) plot/tower/exec.]__ |
------___ [7 Year exile for indiscretion] |
||||||| [Stephen Bellott dowry: =C2=A3200] |
||||||| [Hothead Gastrell: Esdras 6:9] |
||||||||||||||||||| [Anne Cornwaleys book 1588?] |
|||||||||||||| [not a *COMPANY* keeper ] |
|||||||||| [Richard Field recognized 1593] |
||||||||||||||||| [Meres' Top 10 in comedy 1598] |
|||||||||||||||||||[Baroness Elizabeth of Abbingdon] |
|||||||||||||||||||[drunken B.Knell suicide attack] |
___________________ |
|||||||||||||||| [falcon w./spear in dexter CLAW] |
_____ [ Henry Evans > ____ |
|||| 1608 Lessor of Blackfriars Th.] |
||||||||||||||||| dies unnoticed / tomb unmarked |
||||| Church Burial Record "X"ed |
___________________ |
______ Hall M.D. -------- SVSANna
|||||||| [d. on Lope de Vega's 73rd birthday [b.May 26, 1583]
_ 3 mo. after Lope dies] ____ [could write name]
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_____ STRATFORD atte Bowe
________ Pontius Pilate
______ hand-WASHING
___ GREAT CHAMBERLAIN
_____ EALDORMAN/Bailiff
_______ John ----------- MARgerY
________ |
___ /-----------\ ___ m. on OPALIA [Sonneteer]
=2E MARY Oxford --------------- Anne
________________ | [b. 1556]
- [BROOKE House] __ |[only son dies
_______ [Oxford's Boys] | b.May 1583]
_______- [Oxford Gloves] |
_______- [ *STANNARY* ] |
__ [TINner of VEREland] __ |
_ [Cervantes' "lame hand" ] |
______ [T. Smith : mentor] |
|||| [Catholic Relatives persecuted] |
_____ [Thomas Trussell] |
___ [Sweet Oxford/Ned] |
___ [yb NV : DRO(fx)O] __ |
______- [bent Spear crest] |
_______ [Golding's 'OVID'] |
__ [Golding's 'pregnancy of wit'] |
______ [Qu. of Scots Trial] |
__- [Yorke's Scounces] |
___ ["Gentleman" poet] |
- [NESTOR reference] |
|||||||||||| [MERMAID grand-dam] |
=2E ['For TRUTH is TRUTH'] |
______ [Paul's 'I am that I am'] |
- [Hamlet's 'v=C3=A6re eller ikke v=C3=A6re'] |
|||||||||| [judged by Raphael Holinshed] |
_ [1604 deer park warden] |
|||||||| [bend-FART quenny-forgetter] |
|||||||||||||||[1604 Faust/FAMA Frat. death] |
|||||||||||||| [John Manningham's 1602 diary] |
___ [=C2=A31,000/year for 18 years] |
__ [- Item, =C2=A310 unto a Beggar ] |
|| [(how)ARD plot/tower/exec.] |
____- [7 Year exile for indiscretion] |
||||||| [Thomas Bellott dowry: =C2=A32,000] |
|| [Hothead Gastrell: Esdras 6:9] |
|||||||||| [Anne Cornwaleys book 1588?] ||| |
||||||||| [denouncing aye the *Company* ] ||||| |
|| [Richard Field recognized 1589] ||| |
||||||||| [Meres' Top 10 in comedy 1598] ||| |
|||||||| [Baroness Elizabeth of Abingdon] ||| |
|| [drunken B-Knell suicide attack] || |
_____________________ |
||||||||||[lion w./broken lance in dexter PAW]|| |
________ [ Henry Evans > |
_ 1583 Lessor of Blackfriars Th.] |
|||||||||||| dies unnoticed / tomb unmarked |
- Church Burial Record "X"ed ___ |
_____________________ |
_________ Herbert (Philip) ----- SVSAN
||||| [b. St. LONGINUS day] [b. May 26]
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"I admit that some of them are not VERy important . . .
=2E but look at *the NUMBER of* them"
=2E - Sam Spade ( Maltese FALCON)
=2E
Sam Diamond: You pit your wits with me, little man,
and you won't have your wits to pit with, know what I mean?
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Art Neuendorffer