"Shakespeare's Southampton: Patron Of Virginia" 1965 ROWSE, A.L.
$45
ROWSE, A.L.
[323] pp.
Harper & Row, Publishers
1965
9 3/4" x 6 3/4"
Jacket design by Philip Gough
VG/ VG
Full-length biography of Henry Wriothesley, the third Earl of Southampton (1573-1624), Shakespeare's acknowledged patron to whom the poet and playwright dedicated his long poems Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594). After a period of youthful indiscretion in which he nearly lost his head because of his collaboration with Essex in the conspiracy against Elizabeth I, Southampton became a leading statesman during the reign of James I, and a champion of American colonization.