02871 a2200325 4500 BJBSDDR 20251106113117.0 ta 251028s2025 wau 00| 0 eng d 9781633311060 1633311066 eng DLC eng PR 2893 M491s 2025 Medina, David 45524 (Policy advisor) Shakespeare's greatest love / David Medina. Washington, D.C. : Disruption Books, 2025. x, 120 pages : black and white illustrations ; 20 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages [109]-118). Part 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. "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. Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Amigos y asociados 44127 Southampton, Henry Wriothesley, conde de 1573-1624 Amigos y asociados 45782 Dramaturgos ingleses 1163 Mecenazgo artístico 32472 Homosexualidad y literatura 45783 Inglaterra Teatro Historia 2578 Inglaterra Siglo XVI lcc BK rmza 125651 125651 0 0 lcc 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2025-10-28 0 PR 2893 M491s 2025 00000183736 2025-10-28 17:04:00 1 2025-10-28 BK