Shakespeare's Southampton: Patron Of Virginia

ROWSE, A.L. [323] pp. Harper & Row, Publishers 1965 9 3/4" x 6 3/4" Jacket design by Philip Gough Full-length biography of Henry Wriothesley, the third Earl of Southampton (1573-1624), Shakespeare's acknowledged patron to whom the poet and playwright dedicated his long poems Venus and Adonis (1593) and The Rape of Lucrece (1594). After a period of youthful indiscretion in which he nearly lost his head because of his collaboration with Essex in the conspiracy against Elizabeth I, Southampton became a leading statesman during the reign of James I, and a champion of American colonization.