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“The Master of Shakespeare is very intriguing, beautifully written and
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Sir Derek Jacobi |
“The Master of Shakespeare is a marvellous book and I urge
everyone to read it.”
Sir Derek Jacobi speaking at the John Silberrad
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Page extent: 416 pages
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The Master of Shakespeare by AWL Saunders Volume I; The Sonnets.
A fascinating and compelling discovery from 8 years research into Fulke
Greville’s claim
Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (1554-1628)
Fulke Greville was an aristocrat, courtier, statesman, sailor, soldier, spymaster,
literary patron, dramatist, historian and poet. He was
educated at Shrewsbury and Jesus College, Cambridge. He
worked for Sir Francis Walsingham as an ‘intelligencer’
where he traveled extensively throughout Europe. He became a
great favorite of Queen Elizabeth, was Clerk to the Council
of Wales, Treasurer of the Navy, and from 1614-1621 he was
Chancellor of the Exchequer.
After the death
of his father in 1606, Fulke became Recorder of
Stratford-upon-Avon and he held that post until 1628.
Greville was famous for his friendship with, and biography
of Sir Philip Sidney, and his long tempestuous love affair
with Philip’s sister, Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke.
Greville is regarded as a generous patron of many of the
leading writers of the day including Christopher Marlowe,
Thomas Nashe, Samuel Daniel and three Poets Laureate; Edmund
Spenser, Ben Jonson and Sir William Davenant. Greville was a
member of all the leading literary circles of the day: The
Areopagus, the Wilton House Circle, The Southampton Circle,
the University Wits (associate) and The School of Night. He
is also famous for his claim to have been the ‘Master of
Shakespeare’ and the author of a ‘lost’ play called Antony
and Cleopatra.
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CONTENTS
Preface The
Shakespeare Controversy Introduction What the Critics
Said About Fulke Greville
1. The First Folio Profiles
2. The
Biographical Profiles
The Earl of
Southampton, Sir Thomas Lucy of Charlecote, Samuel
Daniel, Sir William Davenant, Queen Elizabeth, Mary
Herbert; Countess of Pembroke, Helene of Tournon, Diana
de Montemayor, The Three ‘Puffs’ Profiles; Phaeton,
Mr. William Apis lapis, Aetion the Eagle Man 3. The
Origin of the Sonnets printed by Thomas Thorpe in 1609 4.
General Stylistic Profiles of the Sonnets Spurgeon’s
Image-Cluster Profiles; The Garden Cluster, The Sea
Cluster, The Animal Cluster, The Body Cluster, The
Sickness Cluster The Subterranean Cluster, The Four
Characters of the Sonnets; Profiles of the Author of
‘Shake-Speare’s Sonnets, Profiles of the Fair Friend,
Profiles of the Dark Lady, Profiles of the Rival Poet
5. The Quadrilateral Affair Sonnet 126: The Death of
the Phoenix, Sonnet 125: I Bore the Canopy, Sonnet III:
The Dyer’s Hand Sonnet 6. Conclusion 7.
Epilogue
Appendix I: The Phoenix and the Turtle Appendix II:
Greville and the Baconians Appendix III: Greville and the
Stratfordians
Notes Select Bibliography Index
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