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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scolairebocht" data-source="post: 94678" data-attributes="member: 8">Shakespeare and the Baron of DelvinJust like in the companion article to this on the Anchorite of Fore, I thought I would throw in a little Shakespeare reference. In the assessment of Delvin's case, meaning his upcoming trial for High Treason, Geoffrey Fenton notes, as reported above under 5/6/1602:So he seems to be a close friend then of the Earl of Southampton? Shakespeare dedicated two books of poetry to the Earl of Southampton, firstly Venus and Adonis and secondly The Rape of Lucrece, in the latter he says:But also Shakespeare seems particularly sympathetic to the Earl of Essex. That means that the Baron of Delvin seems to float around the exact same milieu as the writer of the plays and poems. The Essex connection is stated here by James Shapiro in the Irish Times:</blockquote>

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