Wednesday, May 04, 2005

Anne Cecil, Elizabeth & Oxford

Anne Cecil, Elizabeth & Oxford
by Percy Allen

xi. 46 points of evidence connecting Hamlet with the year 1583, 18 connecting Loves Labors Lost with the year 1578

Dark lady is Elizabeth 1?
Rosalind and Celia in As You Like It
Hermia and Helen in Midsummer Nights Dream
Helena and Cressida in Troilus and Cressida
are the queen and Lady Oxford?

Pandarus and Troilus are Burghley and Oxford
Burghley is Lafeu in Alls Well that ends well

March 1575 Oxford and Elizabeth were intimate
Oxford and Anne Cecil were separated 1576-1581
then Oxford out of favor in 1581
1600, in Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels or the Fountain of Self Love
Oxford is Amorphous the Deformed

Iago in Othello and Lucio in Measure for Measure are Howard/Arundel

claims a son was born to Oxford and Elizabeth in 1574 who eventually became confused with Shakespeare
claims Hatton also a lover of the queen

Wivenhoe at the mouth of the Colne is the exile grange

Bottom in Midsummer Nights Dream , in the opening scene of Act IV addresses the fairies as Monsieur eleven consecutive times

similarities of line in Midsummer Nights Dream and Every Man Out of His Humour

Mary Queen of Scots to Elizabeth in 1584:
"I would be ashamed to lead anyone so young as the Earl of Oxford to church"

1577 Les Tragiques by Agrippa D'aubigny is source material for Macbeth and King Lear, in the cauldron scene, the ingredients from the catalog of charms used by Catherine De Medici .

page 124
from a Life of Sir Walter Raleigh by J.A. St.John:
"At the period of which we are speaking, he (Oxford) possessed 2 mysterious and dangerous books, one called the Book of Babies, the other, the Book of Prophecies. In the former, the author had probably collected all the rumours that circulated throughout the realm of Elizabeth's offspring by Leicester. The general belief appears to have been that when the queen found herself enceinte, she left London and went on a progress into the country, where secretly, in some remote castle, she gave birth to her child, which was spirited away, and brought up carefully, under the eyes of Leicester's friends.

Usages of the same names in different plays:

Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Measure for Measure
Faulconbridge in King John and Merchant of Venice
Rosaline in Loves Labor Lost, As You Like It, and Romeo and Juliet
William in Merry Wives of Windsor and As You Like It
Claudio in Much Ado about Nothing and Measure for Measure

Elizabeth is Silvia, Portia, Olivia, Phoebe
Anne Cecil is Cressida, Hero and Hermione in the Winter's Tale

Claim that Oxford's land sales were a fraud commited by Burghley to Finance Alencon Perhaps Oxford was fooled into expecting some return from Alencon, who also bankrupted other supporters.

"boar-speare" used by Spencer

Anne Cecil "her reputation was disvalued in levity" Measure for Measure

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