375
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His education
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375
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Recognition of Southampton’s beauty in youth
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377
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His reluctance to marry
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378
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Intrigue with Elizabeth Vernon
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379
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1598
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Southampton’s marriage
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379
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1601–3
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Southampton’s imprisonment
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380
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Later career
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380
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1624, Nov. 10
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His death
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381
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IV—THE EARL OF SOUTHAMPTON AS A LITERARY PATRON
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|
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Southampton’s collection of books
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382
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References in his letters to poems and plays
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382
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His love of the theatre
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383
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Poetic adulation
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384
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1593
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Barnabe Barnes’s sonnet
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384
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Tom Nash’s addresses
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385
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1595
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Gervase Markham’s sonnet
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387
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1598
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Florio’s address
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387
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The congratulations of the poets in 1603
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387
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Elegies on Southampton
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389
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V—THE TRUE HISTORY OF THOMAS THORPE AND ‘MR. W. H.’
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|
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The publication of the ‘Sonnets’ in 1609
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390
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The text of the dedication
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391
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Publishers’ dedications
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392
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|
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Thorpe’s early life
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393
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|
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His ownership of the manuscript of Marlowe’s Lucan
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393
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His dedicatory address to Edward Blount in 1600
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394
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|
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Character of his business
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395
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Shakespeare’s sufferings at publishers hands
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396
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The use of initials in dedications of Elizabethan and Jacobean books
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397
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Frequency of wishes for ‘happiness’ and ‘eternity’ in dedicatory greetings
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398
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Five dedications by Thorpe
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399
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|
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‘W. H.’ signs dedication of Southwell’s ‘Poems’
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400
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‘W. H.’ and Mr. William Hall
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402
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The ‘onlie begetter’ means ‘only procurer’
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403
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VI—‘MR. WILLIAM HERBERT’
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|
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Origin of the notion that ‘Mr. W. H.’ stands for William Herbert
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406
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The Earl of Pembroke known only as Lord Herbert in youth
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407
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Thorpe’s mode of addressing the Earl of Pembroke
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408
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VII—SHAKESPEARE AND THE EARL OF PEMBROKE
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|
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Shakespeare with the acting company at Wilton in 1603
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411
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The dedication of the First Folio in 1623
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412
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No suggestion in the sonnets of the youth’s identity with Pembroke
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413
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Aubrey’s ignorance of any relation between Shakespeare and Pembroke
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