Essex’s ‘Rebellion’ Part II, with Hank Whittemore: Why Edward de Vere, Robert Cecil, Henry Wriothesley, and the Sonnets Hold the Keys to the Shakespeare Authorship Question
Join regulars Bonner Cutting, Dorothea Dickerman and Alex McNeil with bartender Jonathan Dixon at the Blue Boar Tavern online pub on Tuesday, April 23 at 8:00 pm ET/5:00 pm PT as we welcome back Hank Whittemore by popular demand.
In this sequel to February’s BBT (watch Part 1 here), we will explore the travesty of justice that was the trial of the Earls of Essex and Southampton, Essex’s fate, Southampton’s imprisonment, and how life-and-death negotiations between brothers-in-law Robert Cecil and Edward de Vere determined who succeeded to the throne of England in the waning years of Queen Elizabeth’s life.
Follow the clues written boldly into Shakespeare’s Sonnets and unravel their mystery as they match actual historical events day by day in the critical period between the ‘Rebellion’ of February 8, 1601 and the Queen’s last breath on March 24, 1603. Find out why phrases like “My name be buried where my body is” (Sonnet 72) and “I, once gone, to all the world must die” (Sonnet 81) are much more than “sugared” poetry, but rather clues as to how and why the mystery of their author’s identity began.
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If the meaning of Shakespeare’s Sonnets has always eluded you, this is an episode you do not want to miss!
“This mystery remained undiscovered . . . . But ‘tis all one to me; for had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relish’d among my other discredits.” – The Winter’s Tale
