TY - JOUR
T1 - Was shakespeare an essex man?
AU - Bate, Jonathan
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - This lecture offers a reinterpretation of one of the most important but misunderstood episodes in Shakespeare's career: the specially commissioned performance of Richard II at the Globe on the eve of the Earl of Essex's 'rebellion' in February 1601. It refutes the recent suggestion that the play performed was not by Shakespeare, reveals who commissioned the performance and why, makes a new proposal about the relationship between Shakespeare's play and Sir John Hayward's controversial History of Henry IV, sets the performance in the larger context of Shakespeare's representations of the codes of honour, chivalry and politic history that were associated with Essex and his circle, and suggests that the famous encounter between Queen Elizabeth and William Lambarde, in which she purportedly compared herself to Richard II, was in all probability embroidered long after the event.
AB - This lecture offers a reinterpretation of one of the most important but misunderstood episodes in Shakespeare's career: the specially commissioned performance of Richard II at the Globe on the eve of the Earl of Essex's 'rebellion' in February 1601. It refutes the recent suggestion that the play performed was not by Shakespeare, reveals who commissioned the performance and why, makes a new proposal about the relationship between Shakespeare's play and Sir John Hayward's controversial History of Henry IV, sets the performance in the larger context of Shakespeare's representations of the codes of honour, chivalry and politic history that were associated with Essex and his circle, and suggests that the famous encounter between Queen Elizabeth and William Lambarde, in which she purportedly compared herself to Richard II, was in all probability embroidered long after the event.
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U2 - 10.5871/bacad/9780197264584.003.0001
DO - 10.5871/bacad/9780197264584.003.0001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:77951281286
SN - 0068-1202
VL - 162
SP - 1-28+371
JO - Proceedings of the British Academy
JF - Proceedings of the British Academy
ER -