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Shakespeare authorship: The evidence of his Stratford friends #1 Richard Quiney
Educated, literate, Latin-reading friends: precisely the circle the "authorship question" insists the Stratford man couldn't have had.
This video examines Richard Quiney — bailiff of Stratford, lifelong friend of Shakespeare — and what his life tells us about the world Shakespeare came from.
A study guide accompaniment to this video can be found here: https://educationalhub.org/shakespeare-stratford-friends-study-guide/
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Shakespeare authorship: The evidence of his Stratford friends #1 Richard Quiney
Only one letter addressed to Shakespeare survives. Richard Quiney ...
Only one letter addressed to Shakespeare survives. Richard Quiney wrote it. The Quineys and the Shakespeares were entwined for generations; Richard's son Thomas would go on to marry Shakespeare's daughter ...Judith, and Quiney's surviving correspondence includes a letter written to him in Latin by his eleven-year-old son, a product of the same Stratford grammar school Shakespeare attended.
Educated, literate, Latin-reading friends: precisely the circle the "authorship question" insists the Stratford man couldn't have had.
This video examines Richard Quiney — bailiff of Stratford, lifelong friend of Shakespeare — and what his life tells us about the world Shakespeare came from.
A study guide accompaniment to this video can be found here: https://educationalhub.org/shakespeare-stratford-friends-study-guide/
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Educated, literate, Latin-reading friends: precisely the circle the "authorship question" insists the Stratford man couldn't have had.
This video examines Richard Quiney — bailiff of Stratford, lifelong friend of Shakespeare — and what his life tells us about the world Shakespeare came from.
A study guide accompaniment to this video can be found here: https://educationalhub.org/shakespeare-stratford-friends-study-guide/
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Shakespeare authorship: The evidence of his Stratford friends #2 Thomas Greene
For years, Stratford's town clerk lived in Shakespeare's own house. ...
For years, Stratford's town clerk lived in Shakespeare's own house. Thomas Greene, a trained lawyer of the Middle Temple, lodged with his family at New Place while Shakespeare owned it ...— and in his diary he refers, in passing and without explanation, to "my cosen Shakespeare."
Greene named his two children William and Anne, quite likely in honour of Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway. His diary and papers, kept through the Welcombe enclosure dispute, show a careful legal mind in regular contact with the playwright over the affairs of the town. A Middle Temple lawyer sharing a house with the man from Stratford: precisely the kind of friend you'd expect a literary figure to have.
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Greene named his two children William and Anne, quite likely in honour of Shakespeare and his wife Anne Hathaway. His diary and papers, kept through the Welcombe enclosure dispute, show a careful legal mind in regular contact with the playwright over the affairs of the town. A Middle Temple lawyer sharing a house with the man from Stratford: precisely the kind of friend you'd expect a literary figure to have.
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Shakespeare authorship: The evidence of his Stratford friends #3 Richard Field
Shakespeare's first published works — Venus and Adonis and The Rape of ...
Shakespeare's first published works — Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece — were printed by a man he grew up with. Richard Field, a Stratford tanner's son three ...years Shakespeare's senior, was apprenticed to the Huguenot printer Thomas Vautrollier in London and rose to run one of the finest printing houses in England.
The two families knew each other well: when Field's father died, John Shakespeare helped value his goods. Years later, when Shakespeare wanted his name on a book for the first time, he took his poem to the boy from Bridge Street. A Stratford schoolfellow at the centre of the London book trade, entrusted with the poems that made Shakespeare's literary name: precisely the kind of friend you'd expect a literary figure to have.
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The two families knew each other well: when Field's father died, John Shakespeare helped value his goods. Years later, when Shakespeare wanted his name on a book for the first time, he took his poem to the boy from Bridge Street. A Stratford schoolfellow at the centre of the London book trade, entrusted with the poems that made Shakespeare's literary name: precisely the kind of friend you'd expect a literary figure to have.
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Shakespeare authorship: The evidence of his Stratford friends #4 Shakespeare no bumpkin!
The authorship question pictures the Stratford man as a provincial ...
The authorship question pictures the Stratford man as a provincial nobody who could not have moved in literary London. His documented circle says otherwise: the writer of the only surviving ...letter addressed to him (Richard Quiney), the Middle Temple lawyer who lodged in his house and called him cousin (Thomas Greene), the schoolfellow who printed his first published poems (Richard Field) — and around them the physician John Hall, who married his daughter; Thomas Russell, who oversaw his will; Hamnet Sadler, after whom he named his only son; the lawyer Francis Collins; the schoolmaster Alexander Aspinall.
Educated, literate, professionally accomplished men, documented in the archives, entwined with Shakespeare's family across generations. Whoever the sceptics imagine, this is the company the real man kept: precisely the friends you'd expect a literary figure to have.
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Educated, literate, professionally accomplished men, documented in the archives, entwined with Shakespeare's family across generations. Whoever the sceptics imagine, this is the company the real man kept: precisely the friends you'd expect a literary figure to have.
A study guide accompaniment to this video can be found here: https://educationalhub.org/shakespeare-stratford-friends-study-guide/
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