Shakspere and Sir Walter Ralegh
Shakspere and Sir Walter Ralegh
by Henry Pemberton Jr in 1914
page 8-9
Stratford , in the time of Elizabeth, was a village of some 1200 to 1500
inhabitants...The inhabitants were in the main, grossly illiterate. In 1565 the aldermen and burgesses of the town had the occasion to execute a public document which is still extant. Six only of the nineteen signers, could sign their names, the other thirteen..made their marks. Among the thirteen who were unable to write even their names we find John Shakspere, the father of William.
page 22-23
There can not be produced any evidence based upon contemporary documents ... showing him to have moved in circles other than these (men of low birth and undignified employment... outraged truth and decency in
endeavors to secure heraldic badges of quality) There is not a letter from him, not even a line of his handwriting in existence ...of a host of other well-known writers, no contemporaneous personal allusion to Shakspere occurs...It is altogether improbable that the documents showing Shakspere's life in court circles should have wholly perished, while those that only relate to him as an actor should have been preserved.
page 37 Mr. White is not the only biographer to whom the facts of Shakspere's life are distateful. (suing in courts for small amounts) Ben Jonson refers to Burbage and Hemings(In the masque of Christmas...as being panders...the procuring of young boys for immoral purposes.
page 43
claims for Stratfordian authorship are based on seven things:
1. The publication in 1593 of Venus and Adonis and in 1594 of Lucrece, with dedications to Southampton signed by WIlliam Shakespere
2. In Palladis Tamia, published in 1598, by Francis Meres, those 2 poems, and certain sonnets and dramas are attributed to "Shakespeare".
3. Publications of quarto editions of the plays in and after 1598 with title pages ...they were written by "William Shakespeare" or "Shake-speare" as well as the 1609 publication of "Shake-speare's Sonnets"
4. The allusion to Shakespeare as a dramatist, and especially as a poet, in a number of published works that appeared during the actor's lifetime
and after Shakspere's death:
5. The first folio, published in 1623
6. The Stratford monument
7. Ben Jonson's eulogy of Shakespear in his "discoveries"
page 49-50
Bathyllus was the name of an inferior verse-maker ... during the reign of Augustus ... tells us that the reputed author was only a man-of-straw
It is probable that in many cases the real author who employed the Bathyllus as his factotum or amanuensis occupied the position of patron or benefactor to the man in question. The Bathyllys may, in some instances, have been a writer of more or less ability, or , on the other hand, he may have been the man of little ability described by Greene.
page 56-57
Ben Jonson's Epigram on Poet Ape
"Buy the reversion of old plays...makes each man's wit his own...He marks not whose 'twas first, and after times may judge it to be his...
page 81
Capell and others conjectured that Shakspere was literally lame.
page 137
(Lord Henry) Howard (later earl of Northampton) hated Ralegh with a virulence not easily explicable...
page 189 Histrio in Jonson's Poetaster:
Histrio is an actor
He is referred to as a base, unworthy groom
He is a member of the Globe company of actors
He is a shareholder in that theatre
He is a man of importance in his company, having power to retain a playwright by giving earnerst-money
He is also empowered to hire boy actors to act in the Globe theatre
He is growing rich and purchasing
He is a usurer, as shown by Jonson's statement in the 1616 edition and by his addressing Histrio as "twenty i' the hundred" in the 1602 edition
Some of these players, and inferentially Shakspere himself " are suspected to have some wit, as well as your poets, both at drinking and breaking of jests, and are companions for gallants" This statement appears in the 1616 edition, but not in that of 1602.
page 190-1
The person brought on stage was one of six actors ... the shares of that theatre were held exclusively by the following six men: Richard Burbage, Cuthbert Burbage, William Shakspere, Augustine Phillips, Thomas Pope, John Hemmings.
by Henry Pemberton Jr in 1914
page 8-9
Stratford , in the time of Elizabeth, was a village of some 1200 to 1500
inhabitants...The inhabitants were in the main, grossly illiterate. In 1565 the aldermen and burgesses of the town had the occasion to execute a public document which is still extant. Six only of the nineteen signers, could sign their names, the other thirteen..made their marks. Among the thirteen who were unable to write even their names we find John Shakspere, the father of William.
page 22-23
There can not be produced any evidence based upon contemporary documents ... showing him to have moved in circles other than these (men of low birth and undignified employment... outraged truth and decency in
endeavors to secure heraldic badges of quality) There is not a letter from him, not even a line of his handwriting in existence ...of a host of other well-known writers, no contemporaneous personal allusion to Shakspere occurs...It is altogether improbable that the documents showing Shakspere's life in court circles should have wholly perished, while those that only relate to him as an actor should have been preserved.
page 37 Mr. White is not the only biographer to whom the facts of Shakspere's life are distateful. (suing in courts for small amounts) Ben Jonson refers to Burbage and Hemings(In the masque of Christmas...as being panders...the procuring of young boys for immoral purposes.
page 43
claims for Stratfordian authorship are based on seven things:
1. The publication in 1593 of Venus and Adonis and in 1594 of Lucrece, with dedications to Southampton signed by WIlliam Shakespere
2. In Palladis Tamia, published in 1598, by Francis Meres, those 2 poems, and certain sonnets and dramas are attributed to "Shakespeare".
3. Publications of quarto editions of the plays in and after 1598 with title pages ...they were written by "William Shakespeare" or "Shake-speare" as well as the 1609 publication of "Shake-speare's Sonnets"
4. The allusion to Shakespeare as a dramatist, and especially as a poet, in a number of published works that appeared during the actor's lifetime
and after Shakspere's death:
5. The first folio, published in 1623
6. The Stratford monument
7. Ben Jonson's eulogy of Shakespear in his "discoveries"
page 49-50
Bathyllus was the name of an inferior verse-maker ... during the reign of Augustus ... tells us that the reputed author was only a man-of-straw
It is probable that in many cases the real author who employed the Bathyllus as his factotum or amanuensis occupied the position of patron or benefactor to the man in question. The Bathyllys may, in some instances, have been a writer of more or less ability, or , on the other hand, he may have been the man of little ability described by Greene.
page 56-57
Ben Jonson's Epigram on Poet Ape
"Buy the reversion of old plays...makes each man's wit his own...He marks not whose 'twas first, and after times may judge it to be his...
page 81
Capell and others conjectured that Shakspere was literally lame.
page 137
(Lord Henry) Howard (later earl of Northampton) hated Ralegh with a virulence not easily explicable...
page 189 Histrio in Jonson's Poetaster:
Histrio is an actor
He is referred to as a base, unworthy groom
He is a member of the Globe company of actors
He is a shareholder in that theatre
He is a man of importance in his company, having power to retain a playwright by giving earnerst-money
He is also empowered to hire boy actors to act in the Globe theatre
He is growing rich and purchasing
He is a usurer, as shown by Jonson's statement in the 1616 edition and by his addressing Histrio as "twenty i' the hundred" in the 1602 edition
Some of these players, and inferentially Shakspere himself " are suspected to have some wit, as well as your poets, both at drinking and breaking of jests, and are companions for gallants" This statement appears in the 1616 edition, but not in that of 1602.
page 190-1
The person brought on stage was one of six actors ... the shares of that theatre were held exclusively by the following six men: Richard Burbage, Cuthbert Burbage, William Shakspere, Augustine Phillips, Thomas Pope, John Hemmings.
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