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  • Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Rival Poet

    The Narrative of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

    by Mark Bradbeer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Rival Poet explores Shakespeare’s sonnet series and A Lover’s Complaint, both published in 1609. These poems are viewed in their historical context: in particular, in the context of Shakespeare’s patron. Through this prism, the patron’s relationship with “both” his poets (Sonnet 83) – the Bard and his Rival – is reviewed. Against linguistic logic, most scholars have ... Read more

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  • Aemilia Lanyer as Shakespeare’s Co-Author

    by Mark Bradbeer ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Shakespeare
    This book presents original material which indicates that Aemilia Lanyer – female writer, feminist, and Shakespeare contemporary – is Shakespeare’s hidden and arguably most significant co-author. Once dismissed as the mere paramour of Shakespeare’s patron, Lord Hunsdon, she is demonstrated to be a most articulate forerunner of #MeToo fury.Building on previous research into the authorship of ... Read more

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  • Sir Henry Neville, Alias William Shakespeare

    Authorship Evidence in the History Plays

    Shakspere's history plays are more than dramatized history lessons. They explore contemporary dangers inherent in royal succession at a time when Elizabeth I decreed that mere discussion of who would inherit the throne was treason. The plays were political and therefore dangerous. Yet William Shakspere from Stratford-upon-Avon was never arrested for his writing nor spent time in prison, unlike his ... Read more

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  • The Woodvilles

    The Wars of the Roses and England's Most Infamous Family

    In 1464, the most eligible bachelor in England, Edward IV, stunned the nation by revealing his secret marriage to Elizabeth Woodville, a beautiful, impoverished widow whose father and brother Edward himself had once ridiculed as upstarts. Edward's controversial match brought his queen's large family to court and into the thick of the Wars of the Roses. This is the story of the family whose fates ... Read more

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  • Richard III - The Young King To Be

    The Young King to be

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  • The Kingmaker's Sisters

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