Sir Walter Raleigh
from Raleigh Trevelyan's bio of Sir Walter Raleigh
p.27
For a short while he joined a circle of wild aristocratic young courtiers, mostly Catholics or crypto-catholics, including Charles Arundell, Francis Southwell, the earl of Sussex and Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford and premier earl of England; also on its fringe was Lord Henry Howard, son of the poet earl of Surrey and brother of the Duke of Norfolk, both executed.
p.28
Oxford was married to the daughter of the great Lord Treasurer Burghley..,but temporarily separated from her. At one time Oxford had been a special favorite of the Queen, who still had an affection for him and respect for his ancient lineage. He was also a poet, and has even been put forward as the "real" author of Shakespeare's early plays.
p.28
The man he was warning her against in this roundabout way was none other than the Earl of Oxford. It was to no avail. Anne (Vavasour) was in love with Oxford, and they wrote poems to one another. When she had a child by him, the furious Elizabeth invoked her usual penalty: she sent both to the Tower. Anne's uncle, Sir Thomas Knivet, also a courtier, challenged Oxford to a duel.
p 30
Oxford's attitude towards Raleigh suddenly changed, and Raleigh became one of his enemies. It could well have been because of this foolish poem, or that Oxford had found out that Raleigh was spying for Walsingham.... Meanwhile, Oxford's hate campaign against Sidney was unabated, and the venom was now directed just as much against Raleigh, whom he proposed to have murdered.
p.31
Oxford had also quarrelled with Arundell and Southwwell, accusing them of Catholic plots against the queen. Then he attacked Lord Henry Howard, another who had developed an intense and even more dangerous hatred against Raleigh, for reasons unknown but no doubt connected with his Catholicism; a secret homosexual and an embittered Iago figure, this "Harry" lived under the shadow of the fact that both his father and brother had been attainted. Arundell retaliated with wild accusations about Oxford's "detestable vices" and unpure life", sometimes invoking
Raleigh as a witness. He also claimed that Oxford had urged both him and Raleigh to murder Sidney.
p36
Burleigh had asked him to intercede with her (QE) over a delicate family matter, in connection with his errratic son-in-law the Earl of Oxford, who had been in disgrace ever since his duel with Sir Thomas Knivet. Oxford had been banned from Court, whereas Knivet had been forgiven. Not only that, but Oxford was still refusing to take back his wife.....Oxford contined to regard him with contempt, as an insolent
commoner, who had wormed his way into his circle and had then betrayed him.
p.204 on Love's labor's lost
Holofernes may well have had an element of Hariot in him, also of Giordano Bruno. But he does point strongly to John Florio, of Italian Jewish descent, a famous teacher and translator of Montaigne. The title of the play had quite obviously been taken from Florio's well-known remark about the over-prevalence of lewd literature: "It were labout lost to speak of love". Then we have a direct quotation from Florio's book "First Fruits": Venetia, chi non te vede, non to prese
p.27
For a short while he joined a circle of wild aristocratic young courtiers, mostly Catholics or crypto-catholics, including Charles Arundell, Francis Southwell, the earl of Sussex and Edward de Vere, 17th earl of Oxford and premier earl of England; also on its fringe was Lord Henry Howard, son of the poet earl of Surrey and brother of the Duke of Norfolk, both executed.
p.28
Oxford was married to the daughter of the great Lord Treasurer Burghley..,but temporarily separated from her. At one time Oxford had been a special favorite of the Queen, who still had an affection for him and respect for his ancient lineage. He was also a poet, and has even been put forward as the "real" author of Shakespeare's early plays.
p.28
The man he was warning her against in this roundabout way was none other than the Earl of Oxford. It was to no avail. Anne (Vavasour) was in love with Oxford, and they wrote poems to one another. When she had a child by him, the furious Elizabeth invoked her usual penalty: she sent both to the Tower. Anne's uncle, Sir Thomas Knivet, also a courtier, challenged Oxford to a duel.
p 30
Oxford's attitude towards Raleigh suddenly changed, and Raleigh became one of his enemies. It could well have been because of this foolish poem, or that Oxford had found out that Raleigh was spying for Walsingham.... Meanwhile, Oxford's hate campaign against Sidney was unabated, and the venom was now directed just as much against Raleigh, whom he proposed to have murdered.
p.31
Oxford had also quarrelled with Arundell and Southwwell, accusing them of Catholic plots against the queen. Then he attacked Lord Henry Howard, another who had developed an intense and even more dangerous hatred against Raleigh, for reasons unknown but no doubt connected with his Catholicism; a secret homosexual and an embittered Iago figure, this "Harry" lived under the shadow of the fact that both his father and brother had been attainted. Arundell retaliated with wild accusations about Oxford's "detestable vices" and unpure life", sometimes invoking
Raleigh as a witness. He also claimed that Oxford had urged both him and Raleigh to murder Sidney.
p36
Burleigh had asked him to intercede with her (QE) over a delicate family matter, in connection with his errratic son-in-law the Earl of Oxford, who had been in disgrace ever since his duel with Sir Thomas Knivet. Oxford had been banned from Court, whereas Knivet had been forgiven. Not only that, but Oxford was still refusing to take back his wife.....Oxford contined to regard him with contempt, as an insolent
commoner, who had wormed his way into his circle and had then betrayed him.
p.204 on Love's labor's lost
Holofernes may well have had an element of Hariot in him, also of Giordano Bruno. But he does point strongly to John Florio, of Italian Jewish descent, a famous teacher and translator of Montaigne. The title of the play had quite obviously been taken from Florio's well-known remark about the over-prevalence of lewd literature: "It were labout lost to speak of love". Then we have a direct quotation from Florio's book "First Fruits": Venetia, chi non te vede, non to prese
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