Research of Sir Henry Neville (c.1562-1615) as the Real Shakespeare. http://www.henryneville.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:24:59 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.henryneville.com/images/M_images/henry-neville.png http://www.henryneville.com Research of Sir Henry Neville (c.1562-1615) as the Real Shakespeare. http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=22&Itemid=9 Revised 24th March, 2009FOR A CCESS TO ALL THE ITEMS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE, PLEASE CLICK :http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_mambomap Itemid=30Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code by Brenda James,Two issues of THE JOURNAL OF NEVILLE STUDIES now available ©Brenda James, ed. Brenda James April 2007 ISSN 1754-1999 (Online),ISSN 1754-2847 (CD-ROM)(registered with the British Library) To purchase either or both issues, please click here for details. 1.VOLUME ONE, ISSUE 1 OF THE JOURNAL OF NEVILLE STUDIESCONTENTSSECTION 1 – PAPERS - EVIDENCE FOR THE AUTHORSHIP OF SHAKESPEARE-NEVILLE IN DOUBLE FALSHOOD: THE 'LOST' PLAY OF CARDENIO by John Casson with Brenda James- A NEW INTERPRETATION OF EPIGRAM 77 BY BEN JONSON by John Casson - THE TANGLED WORLD OF ELIZABETHAN ESPIONAGE: HENRY NEVILLE AND CHARLES PAGET, DOUBLE AGENT by Brenda James - SHAKESPEARE-NEVILLE, FORESTS, ISLANDS AND FOLKLORE by Brenda James- SHAKESPEARE, NEVILLE AND THE IRON MEN OF THE THEATRE by Brenda James (Addresses the question of the patronage problem surrounding William Shakespeare and examines the connections between Henry Neville and the Theatre, together with investigating the financial background of other Theatrical entrepreneurs of the time.) SECTION 2 – [Essays and Commentaries by Brenda James]- 1.WINWOOD'S MEMORIALS OF STATE- INTRODUCTION TO, and articles on WINWOOD'S MEMORIALS OF STATE, (Winwood's Memorials was produced by Edmund Sawyer in 1724. It is a collection of diplomatic and other letters of the 16th and 17th centuries.)- Patronage - Sawyer and Walpole - 2.General Introduction to a Selection of Extracts from relevant letters which were not included in Winwood's Memorials.- 3. Part One of TRANSCRIPTIONS OF NEVILLE'S LETTERS AND DISPATCHES, from Winwood's Memorials- Diagrams, charts, pedigrees, etc.To purchase, please click here for details.For enquiries or letters to the editor, please contact nevillejournal@yahoo.co.uk .....................................................................................format: downloads or cds. in stock at http://www.musicforstrings.com/catalog/henry-neville-shakespeare-c-39.html also available through Amazon worldwide [please click here for details] Brenda James http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=9 ©Brenda James, October 2005 All material on this website is the copyright of Brenda James. For permission to use on websites or elsewhere, contact nevillejournal@yahoo.co.uk FOR ACCESS TO ALL THE ITEMS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE, PLEASE CLICK :http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_mambomap Itemid=30What Kind of Man was Sir Henry Neville? (part 2) by Brenda James As the inheritor of an iron works producing ordnance, Neville was almost bound to come into some sort of conflict with the establishment. Unlike other armaments manufacturers of the day, he was not willing to tolerate the ‘usual’ corrupt practices. For instance, he refused to pay Ambrose Dudley, the then Earl of Warwick, what amounted to bribes. Dudley reported to the Queen on matters concerned with the export of ordnance, and Sir Henry’s refusal to pay Dudley in order to ensure that he kept the Queen on Henry’s side, automatically put Neville on a collision course with Queen Elizabeth. However, it was a course he had not personally sought out, so it must have seemed unjust to him to find the Queen was prone to take the word of those near to her favourite - the Earl of Leicester - whose brother Ambrose was. Brenda James http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21&Itemid=9 ©Brenda James, October 2005 All material on this website is the copyright of Brenda James. For permission to use on websites or elsewhere, contact nevillejournal@yahoo.co.uk FOR ACCESS TO ALL THE ITEMS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE, PLEASE CLICK :http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_mambomap Itemid=30Sir Henry Neville as Ambassador in France Sir Henry was Ambassador to France for only fifteen months (between 1599 and 1601). His original ‘contract’ had been meant to keep him there for a minimum of two years, but he so hated the job that he wrote to Robert Cecil and told him that if the Queen would not permit him to come home early, then he would return without her licence, live hermit in the ‘Forest’ and ‘contemplate my time as a bad ambassador’ (all of which strongly suggests the character of Jacques in As You Like It, set in the Forest of the Ardennes.) Brenda James http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19&Itemid=9 ©Brenda James, October 2005 All material on this website is the copyright of Brenda James. For permission to use on websites or elsewhere, contact nevillejournal@yahoo.co.uk Journal of Neville Studies, issues 1 and 2 now availabe - see 'JOURNAL OF NEVILLE STUDIES' page for detailsFOR ACCESS TO ALL THE ITEMS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE, PLEASE CLICK :http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_mambomap Itemid=30Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code by Brenda James,The Coast of BohemiaIt has often been said that no one who had visited Bohemia would ever have written The Winter’s Tale with its well-known reference to the coast of that country. Our received knowledge nowadays is that Bohemia was the old name for the Czech Republic and Slovakia, and that it was and is a land-locked area. However, there was a time when the kingdom of Bohemia stretched as far as the shores of the Adriatic. What’s more, the documented life of the King of Bohemia who reigned during this expansion of his empire ran a course strangely parallel to that of Polixenes, the Bohemian King in Shakespeare’s play. Ottakar II (the Bohemian King in question) reigned over Bohemia from 1230 – 1278. These were troubled years for the Holy Roman Empire, and Ottakar took advantage of this to forward the expansion of his own kingdom. After conquering the then large country of Hungary, his empire encompassed the Adriatic, so that Bohemia at last had a coast. But the Holy Roman Emperor, Rudolph Habsburg, decided to fight back. After half a lifetime of struggling between the two, however, Wenceslaus (Ottakar’s son) was betrothed to Rudolph I’s daughter. If Ottakar is reflected in the character of Polixenes (King of Bohemia in The Winter’s Tale), then Rudolph may well be represented by Leontes, the lion-hearted king of Sicily, who spends a half a lifetime misjudging the King of Bohemia but then finally allows his daughter to marry Polixenes’ son.in stock at http://www.musicforstrings.com/catalog/henry-neville-shakespeare-c-39.html also available through Amazon worldwide [please click here for details] Brenda James http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=2 Research proves that the empire of Bohemia once stretched to the shores of the Adriatic Sea. Significantly, the then King of the expanded Bohemia shares various experiences with the fictional Polixenes, King of Bohemia in The Winter’s Tale. Brenda James http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17&Itemid=9 FOR ACCESS TO ALL THE ITEMS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE, PLEASE CLICK :http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_mambomap Itemid=30BOOK :Henry Neville and the Shakespeare Code by Brenda James,©Brenda James, October 2005, revised November, 2008. Henry Neville and the Strange Case of Katherine Swynford.There is a strange omission in the play of Richard II. Where is Katherine Swynford? The Great Tudor Dynasty sprang from Katherine's relationship with John of Gaunt, so Katherine and her children's presence could have elicited a much more favourable assessment of the play from Queen Elizabeth Tudor. It was well within the great playwright's capabilities to slant the play in Elizabeth's direction. Why did the true author decide not to do so?Katherine Swynford was a rare woman, especially for the times in which she lived. Beautiful, clever, bilingual and strong-minded, she managed to keep her public dignity despite the fact that she was the life-long and known mistress of the renowned statesman, John of Gaunt. Gaunt married her, however, in 1396, after the death of his second wife, Constanza of Castile, whose family’s claims for inheritance he was later to disavow. But John’s third marriage created a great problem for future dynastic relationships: Katherine Swynford had already borne John four illegitimate children. Had John and Katherine been prepared to allow them to retain their illegitimate status, then there would probably have been less trouble to state affairs. However, John was determined to legitimise these children, thus arguably giving them equal status alongside his legitimate sons. The legitimisation had to be carried out by Papal decree, and by an Act of Parliament, since subsequent marriage of parents did not automatically legitimise children under English Law until a much later Act was passed, in 1926. There was terrific complexity regarding dynastic rights during the Wars of the Roses, and the rights of the descendants of John of Gaunt were bound to figure in the fray. The Nevilles were related to both Henry IV (the legitimate son of Gaunt and his first wife) and to the Beauforts, the illegitimate descendants of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford. However, those Nevilles who were descended from the Beauforts sprang from a daughter of Katherine Swynford, while the man who ultimately began the Tudor dynasty – King Henry VII – began his descent from a son of Katherine Swynford. (Henry VII's great grandfather was the first son of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford.)From a purely dynastic point of view, therefore, if any of Katherine Swynford’s descendants were going to become monarch at the end of the Wars of the Roses, it was probably acceptable that their descent should be traced through the male line. However, the Nevilles would have felt that they had a double right to the throne through their Plantagenet descendancy, which preceded their own descendancy from the Beauforts too.Now, it is a strange fact that John of Gaunt and Henry IV play prominent roles in Shakespeare’s drama, Richard II, but Katherine Swynford (Gaunt’s wife when he died in the play) is never mentioned. Had the true writer of the play been a young, upwardly-spiralling ambitious poor man from Stratford, it is inconceivable that he would have omitted Katherine Swynford and her son from the play, because Katherine Swynford’s son, John, was the great-grandfather of the head of the Tudor dynasty, (Henry VII), and Henry VII was the grandfather of the reigning monarch, Elizabeth I. Any playwright at all interested in obtaining royal recognition and approval would therefore have written a play which implied praise for the reigning monarch by praising her ancestors. Besides this glaring omission, Richard II also included a scene involving the monarch's deposition. Surely only a playwright writing under the protection of a pseudonym would therefore have dared write such a play, with its significant and dangerous inclusions and omissions. No one who suffered the same financial need as did William Shakespeare, and no one who wished to curry favour with the present dynasty, would therefore have written the play, Richard II. The Swynford boys were given the surname Beaufort. John Beaufort, Marquess of Dorset and Somerset, (Henry VII’s grandfather) was only five years younger than Henry IV, so he could easily have played a role in the play. It is therefore arguable that had the writer in any way heroicised this character, then Queen Elizabeth I might well have taken a very much more favourable view of that play. And, to add to this, those Beauforts who were not ancestors of the Neville line were also painted in an unfavourable light in the Henry VI plays. Who but a Neville would have had an interest in omitting or vilifying an ancestor of the Monarch whom he knew would watch the plays? And would a writer who wrote with such bias have dared declared his authorship? Who but a Neville would have had an interest in heroicising John of Gaunt and Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick in the History Plays? Certainly, no poor aspiring playwright who depended on writing plays for his living would have dared to do such a thing. Years later, it is no wonder the Queen did not indict William Shakespeare of Stratford for allowing Richard II to be produced on the eve of the Essex Rebellion. She was not stupid: she must have realised that if Shakespeare had been the true writer then he would never have agreed to endanger himself and his livelihood by allowing a seditious play (which also omitted to mention any positive role played by Elizabeth’s own ancestors) to be performed under such sensitive political circumstances. Quite understandably, Queen Elizabeth would have looked for a writer who had another source of income, who was a friend of the Earls of Southampton and Essex, and who had an interest in placing (subliminally at least) an alternative dynasty in a brighter light than her own. Elizabeth did not accuse Francis Bacon of being the author – he was an absolute monarchist and something of a sycophant. She did not accuse any of the other authorship contenders, but she placed Henry Neville in the Tower of London, alongside ‘Shakespeare’s’ patron, the Earl of Southampton. Henry Neville had known the Earl of Southampton since boyhood, and that same Earl was later to champion Sir Henry's bid to become Secretary of State. Neville was a supporter of the Earl of Essex too, so he was indeed lucky to stay alive throughout his two years' imprisonment in the Tower of London. Perhaps it was his relationship to the rich Greshams which helped him. (His mother was a Gresham, and her uncle founded the Royal Exchange, which became the basis of the Bank of England. Gresham money was definitely needed by the Tudor Queen.) But there was another factor in his survival too. Only through the careful offices of Robert Cecil did both Neville and Southampton keep their heads on their shoulders. We have Robert Cecil to thank for protecting his cousin, Henry Neville, the great humanist who was truly the writer of the plays. © Brenda James, November, 2008Brenda James is represented solely by ROBIN WADE. For 'Permissions', filming, etc., please contact Robin Wade rw@rwla.com Brenda James http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=16&Itemid=9 Welcome to henryneville.com hosted by Brenda James, author.©Brenda James, October 2005 All material on this website is the copyright of Brenda James. For permission to use on websites or elsewhere, contact nevillejournal@yahoo.co.uk FOR ACCESS TO ALL THE ITEMS AVAILABLE ON THIS WEBSITE, PLEASE CLICK :http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_mambomap Itemid=30SIR HENRY NEVILLE - THE SHAKESPEARE AUTHORSHIP SOLUTION Brenda James http://www.henryneville.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=15&Itemid=9 Brenda James can be contacted by emailing Sir Henry Neville (/) byBen Jonson (c.1610)Who now calls on thee, NEVIL, is a Muse,That serves nor fame, nor titles;but doth chuseWhere vertue makes them both, and that’s in thee:Where all is faire, beside thy pedigree.Thou art not one, seek’st miseries with hope,Wrestlest with dignities, or fain’st a scopeOf seruice to the publique, when the endIs priuate gaine, which hath long guilt to friend.Thou rather striv’st the matter to possesse,And elements of honor, the[a]n the dresse;To make thy lent life, good against the Fates:And first to know thine owne state, then the States.To be the same in roote, thou art in height;And that thy soule should give thy flesh her weight.Goe on, and doubt not, what posteritie,Now I haue sung thee thus, shall iudge of thee.Thy deedes, vnto thy name, will prove new wombes,Whil’st others toyle for titles to their tombes. 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