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Was Heywood a Servant of the Earl of Southampton?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 December 2020

Charles A. Rouse*
Affiliation:
Teachers College, Farmville, Virginia

Extract

In the course of collecting the material for a biography of Thomas Heywood, I came upon a passage which suggests that possibly the Earl of Southampton at one time patronized a theatrical company. The passage occurs in Heywood's A Funeral Elegie, upon the Much Lamented Death of the Trespuissant and unmatchable King, King James (1625):

      Henry, Southampton Earle, a souldier proued;
      Dreaded in warre, and in milde peace beloued.
      Oh giue me leaue to resound
      His memory, as most in dutie bound,
      Because his servant once.

Type
Research Article
Information
PMLA , Volume 45 , Issue 3 , September 1930 , pp. 787 - 790
Copyright
Copyright © Modern Language Association of America, 1930

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References

1 Palladis Tamia: Wits Treasury, in Elizabethan Critical Essays, ed. G. G. Smith, ii. 320.

2 Works, ii. 161-2.

3 Henslowe's Diary, Commentary, p. 166.

4 Elizabethan Stage, iii, 341.

5 English Dramatic Companies, 1910, ii, 141.

6 Henslowe's Diary, p. 45.

7 Biographical Chronicle of the English Drama, i, 282.

8 J. Q. Adams, A Life of William Shakespeare, 1923, p. 125.

9 Henslowe's Diary, p. 204.

10 Ibid., Commentary, p. 285.

11 Adams, Shakespearean Playhouses, p. 157.

12 Henslowe's Diary, p. 179.

13 Fleay, A Chronicle History of the London Stage, p. 285.

14 Adams, Shakespearean Playhouses, p. 353.

15 Ibid., p. 301.