Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare makes available a little known early modern journal kept by a member of Queen Mary's delegation to Rome, its purpose to win papal approval of England's return to Roman Catholicism. The book provides details of the six-month journey, a discussion of the manuscript, and an identification of the twenty-year-old Thomas North as its author. It also points to numerous connections between the journal and the plays of Shakespeare, extending the playwright's debt beyond North's translation of Plutarch's Lives and revealing how the journal served as a template for The Winter's Tale and Henry VIII. Both, the authors argue, were written by North during the Marian years (1554-58) and later adapted by Shakespeare. Like the authors' 2018 "A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels" by George North,this book presents original work using digital research tools, including massive databases and plagiarism software. The earlier book garnered worldwide attention, with a front-page story in The New York Times.
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Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare
This study compels us to recognize the Norths as significant protagonists in the vast, fascinating story of Shakespeare and his sources.
Published date: Mar 10, 2022
Language: English
No. of Pages: 254
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN: 9781683933076
Dimensions:
6.02" W x
0.63" L x
8.58" H
Dennis McCarthy is an independent scholar and author of Here Be Dragons: How the Study of Animal and Plant Distributions Revolutionized Our Views of Life and Earth, as well as other titles.
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