SAT Conference 2019 - 3 - Clare Asquith - Shakespeare and the Essex Cause

Clare Asquith, author of 'Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny' delivers her lecture 'And That Will Be England Gone: Shakespeare and The Essex Cause at the Shakespearean Authorship Trust conference 2019, Shakespeare, Essex and Authorship.

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Filming: Tim Pieraccini, Sound: Malcolm Blackmoor

[edwardpowers]

Wow! This is an extraordinarily fascinating piece of scholarship, and, if its depiction of the times as a period of extreme terror within a flourishing police state created by the Cecils cryptically yet brilliantly resisted by Shakespeare's underlying political wisdom, it not only changes our understanding of Elizabethan England but also offers guidance from the Bard for resistance to the emerging authoritarianism and tyrannies emerging today in the 21st Century right under our eyes. Thank you for such a provocative insight into two of Shakespeare's masterpieces, which I will now read with much greater focus and attentiveness.

[williamrubinstein]

Sir Henry Neville was thrown into the Tower, alongside Southampton, for his role in the Essex rebellion.

[tracik]

Excellent and informative. The rape of England indeed, something similar to how I feel things to be today, we are still Elizabethans after all.

[MrMartibobs]

Amazing. I have always thought that the line 'and strength by limping sway disabled' in sonnet 66 is a complaint about the aging Queen's impotent reign. Also 'and truest faith, unhappily forsworn' could easily be interpreted as regret at being forced to renounce the old faith.

[jwrigley]

Really, really interesting. Thank you.

[MundaSquire]

Makes me wonder if this had anything to do with Oxford (Shakes-peare), early in his career, being alienated from the court. He ending up broke, miight he himself have helped Essex pay his 5000 pounds to Lord Burghley. The queen paid him 1000 pounds a year, it continued by James I. There is some secrets involving Oxford's youthful connection to court, even after his wardship. It may have to do with Cecil eviscerated Oxford's estate, and Oxford having been one of the oldest families dating back to the Conquerer. Truly, there is something rotten in Denmark.

[traceyolsen]

Considering that in 391 Theodosius made it illegal to be Pagan and punishable by death, ..revoked by the Catholic Church in 1962(?), the particular oath you were referring to is one in a very long line of situations where people have to lie to keep their lives. Also, using Symbols, they can mean one thing to one individual and something completely different to someone else.. 23 April is an important festival of the Goddess Venus, perhaps that's what is really being celebrated rather than George and the Dragon?..Presumably that's another reason why a lot of people prefer there to be confusion with knowing who the author is, because it makes it harder to pin down what is being referred to in the texts.
Thank you for discussing these other (more likely)? readings.

[brendanward]

59:14 - "In Vinculis Invictus" = In Chains [but] Unconquered."

[bastianconrad]

Isn't of some particular value to recognize in a legitimate question acceptable principles of reasoning?

[TheLenze]

at the end she says ‘he suffered for the Tudor cause’ - what? Shouldn’t she have said ‘he suffered for the cause of Essex?

[bastianconrad]

did I understand your answer correctly? Your trip longs for the province of implausibility and unfortunately not for the center of meaningfulness. My Christmas compliments to You BC