SAT Conference 2019 - 2 - Paul Hammer - The Essex Rising in Historical Context

Professor Paul Hammer, author of 'The Polarisation of Elizabethan Politics: The Political Career of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, 1585-1597' delivers a lecture on 'The Essex Rising in Historical Context' at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust conference 2019, Shakespeare, Essex and Authorship.

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Filming: Tim Pieraccini, Sound: Malcolm Blackmoor

[rooruffneck]

Great lecture. Thanks to everybody who helped make the conference and thereby this video possible. There is something refreshing about hearing a scholar stick with the basics and carefully differentiate various levels of speculation.

I'm not sure why we almost never get to hear questions and answers. Maybe they don't happen anymore after speeches with this organization. But if they do, and even if the sound quality goes down, please include them in these videos. After such a richly detailed and carefully presented talk, it is fascinating to hear how the speaker situations the good questions that arise. Anyway, thanks again to everybody who made this video possible.

[dianasitek]

..and to think we were told at school and university that the Cecils were wonderful men!

[WJRay]

Would there be any reason why Southampton was treated so solicitously as soon as James VI became accepted as King James I of England? Southampton was freed from the Tower, returned his lands, offered extensive and profitable privileges, and received back his aristocratic station. These are not obvious acts to someone traitorous to the previous monarch.