02745    a2200289   4500003000800000005001700008007000300025008004100028020001800069020001500087040001300102041000800115050002400123100003600147245004900183260005000232300006000282504005900342505039600401520137400797600005902171600008102230650002502311650002702336650004602363650004602409BJBSDDR20251106113117.0ta251028s2025    wau           00| 0 eng d  a9781633311060  a1633311066  bengcDLC  aeng14aPR 2893bM491s 20251 aMedina, Davidc(Policy advisor)10aShakespeare's greatest love /cDavid Medina.  aWashington, D.C. :bDisruption Books, c2025.  ax, 120 pages :bblack and white illustrations ; c20 cm  aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [109]-118).0 aPart 1 Before I know myself, seek not to know me (Shakespeare's and Southampton's early years). William ; Henry
Part II Lord of my love (Shakespeare's poems and Southampton's early patronage) Master-Mistress ; Adonis ; Lucrece ; £1,000
Part III Bosom lover of my lord (Shakespeare's plays and Southampton's later patronage) Bassanio ; Bertram ; Commissions
Epilogue
Appendix : Selected art.  a"Leaving behind a wife and three young children in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare moved to London for its thrilling theater scene, where everyone mixed freely across ages, classes, and ranks. It was through their mutual passion for the theater that the handsome twenty-seven-year-old playwright first met and fell deeply in love with the effeminate seventeen-year-old earl who beguiled men and women alike and avowed that 'desire and pleasure [should] sometimes triumph over reason.' Author David Medina demonstrates that Shakespeare wrote more of his plays and poems for and about Southampton than anyone else--works that are sexually charged, romantic, and homoerotic. He also chronicles the evidence that Southampton provided Shakespeare the support he needed to secure his acting company share, coat of arms, family residence, royal commission, life portrait, and funerary bust. Shakespeare and Southampton's personal and professional relationship evolved privately and publicly over a quarter century against the backdrop of a national anti-sodomy law, multiple plague outbreaks, unexpected pregnancies, rushed and possibly forced marriages, a failed rebellion, and political imprisonments. Shakespeare's greatest love challenges us all to recognize Southampton as the individual who had the most significant impact on Shakespeare's life, literature, and legacy.14aShakespeare, William,d1564-1616 xAmigos y asociados 14aSouthampton, Henry Wriothesley, cconde de d1573-1624 xAmigos y asociados  4aDramaturgos ingleses 4aMecenazgo artístico  4aHomosexualidad y literatura zInglaterra  4aTeatroxHistoria zInglaterra ySiglo XVI