"Shakespeare's Southampton: Patron Of Virginia" 1965 ROWSE, A. L.
$45
[323] pp.
ROWSE, A. L.
Harper & Row, Publishers
1965
9.75" x 6.75"
Jacket design by Philip Gough
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.