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Shakespeare's patron : William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, 1580-1630 : politics, patronage and power / Brian O'Farrell.

Van Pelt Library DA391.1.P46 O43 2011
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Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Genre:
  • Biographies.
Physical Description:
viii, 274 pages ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
London ; New York : Continuum, 2011.
Summary:
  • A prominent courtier in the reigns of Elizabeth I, James I and Charles I, William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, was the most important patron of the arts in the early seventeenth century, and almost certainly the person to whom Shakespeare dedicated his Sonnets. As well as being a good minor poet himself, pembroke was an astute and powerful politician, the greatest electoral manager of the period, the wealthiest nobleman of his time, a powerful industrial entrepreneur, Chancellor of Oxford University and an indefatigable promoter of colonial enterprises.
  • Though his contemporaries were unanimous in proclaiming his greatness, this is the first full-length study of the Third Earl to be published. This exhaustively researched biography not only delineates pembroke's political goals and principle, but also explores his impact on the aesthetic, cultural and economic world of his age. Book jacket.
Contents:
  • 1 Formative Influences, 1580-1597 1
  • 2 Elizabethan Prelude, 1597-1601 11
  • 3 Exile, 1601-1603 25
  • 4 At the Court of James the First, 1603-1612 39
  • 5 The Rise of the Favourites, 1612-1621 59
  • 6 'Thy Mother's Glass' 77
  • 7 'The Greatest Maecenas' 91
  • 8 Parliament and Politics, 1621-1625 113
  • 9 Improving Landlord 129
  • 10 Aristocratic Entrepreneur 143
  • 11 At the Caroline Court, 1625-1627 159
  • 12 The Lord Steward, 1627-1630 177.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [245]-268) and index.
ISBN:
  • 9781441116369
  • 1441116362
  • 9781441106117
  • 1441106111
OCLC:
648934552

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