Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton
Shakespeare and the Earl of Southampton
by GPV Akrigg
"we shall often lack evidence and be forced back upon conjecture...Probably...There is no proof..If...probably...lost years...speculated...we have no evidence...only conjectures...could be...Probably, it was on some such excursion that William Shakespeare and the young Earl of Southampton first saw eachother."
page 126
"For while the Earl and the counsel were pleading, my lords guzzled as if they had not eaten for a fortnight, smoking also plenty of tobacco. Then they went into a room to give their voices, and there, stupid with eating, and drunk with smoking, they condemned the two earls" M. de Boissise, french ambassador writing home to Henri4 about the trial of Essex and Southampton
June 24, 1604, the same day as the death of the 17th earl of Oxford, the 3rd Earl of Southampton arrested for unknown reasons, his papers seized and scrutinized, and he was interrogated. No documentation survives, we only know of it from embassy reports.
18th earl of Oxford mentioned more in this book than the 17th Earl of Oxford
by GPV Akrigg
"we shall often lack evidence and be forced back upon conjecture...Probably...There is no proof..If...probably...lost years...speculated...we have no evidence...only conjectures...could be...Probably, it was on some such excursion that William Shakespeare and the young Earl of Southampton first saw eachother."
page 126
"For while the Earl and the counsel were pleading, my lords guzzled as if they had not eaten for a fortnight, smoking also plenty of tobacco. Then they went into a room to give their voices, and there, stupid with eating, and drunk with smoking, they condemned the two earls" M. de Boissise, french ambassador writing home to Henri4 about the trial of Essex and Southampton
June 24, 1604, the same day as the death of the 17th earl of Oxford, the 3rd Earl of Southampton arrested for unknown reasons, his papers seized and scrutinized, and he was interrogated. No documentation survives, we only know of it from embassy reports.
18th earl of Oxford mentioned more in this book than the 17th Earl of Oxford
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