Davis, Henry William Charles. England under the Normans and the Angevins. *$3. Putnam.
6–1101.
Descriptive note in Annual, 1906.
Reviewed by Ch.-V. Langlois.
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Davis, Latham. Shakespeare, England’s Ulysses: the masque of Love’s labor’s won, or The enacted will; dramatized from the sonnets of 1609. *$3. Stechert.
The masque, whose text is the sonnets of 1609, is really a legal document whose sole purpose is to convey and re-establish by a will the authorship of our Shakespearian literature. “The name of the new heir to the Shakespearian mantle, as revealed by the ‘star-like’ acrostic that ‘stands fix’d’ at the termination of the dramatis personæ is that of ... Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex.”
“It is a queer book, an unreadable one, and to the ordinary mind quite unintelligible, but it is a book and it is printed, and it will comfortably amaze a few of the credulous. There’s not a bit of harm in it.”
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