Shakespeare's greatest love /
Leaving behind a wife and three young children in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare moved to London for its thrilling theater scene, where everyone mixed freely across ages, classes and ranks. It was through their mutual passion for the theater that the handsome twenty-seven-year-old playwright first...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Disruption Books,
[2025].
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| Edition: | First Edition. |
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| Summary: | Leaving behind a wife and three young children in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare moved to London for its thrilling theater scene, where everyone mixed freely across ages, classes and ranks. It was through their mutual passion for the theater that the handsome twenty-seven-year-old playwright first met and fell deeply in love with the effeminate seventeen-year-old earl who beguiled men and women alike and avowed that 'desire and pleasure should sometimes triumph over reason.' Author David Medina demonstrates that Shakespeare wrote more of his plays and poems for and about Southampton than anyone else, works that are sexually charged, romantic and homoerotic. He also chronicles the evidence that Southampton provided Shakespeare the support he needed to secure his acting company share, coat of arms, family residence, royal commission, life portrait and funerary bust. Shakespeare and Southampton's personal and professional relationship evolved privately and publicly over a quarter century against the backdrop of a national anti-sodomy law, multiple plague outbreaks, unexpected pregnancies, rushed and possibly forced marriages, a failed rebellion and political imprisonments. Shakespeare's greatest love challenges us all to recognize Southampton as the individual who had the most significant impact on Shakespeare's life, literature and legacy. |
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| Physical Description: | x, 120 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [109]-118). |
| ISBN: | 9781633311060 1633311066 |