Shakespeare and the Essex Trial 5. Start by marking “Shakespeare and the Resistance: The Earl of Southampton, the Essex Rebellion, and the Poems that Challenged Tudor Tyranny” as Want to Read: Error rating book. There’s no record of Shakespeare’s involvement in the events, or what he thought of them. If you value our work, please disable your ad blocker. Shakespeare's actual connection to the Essex conspiracy is a bit more tenuous -- "W.H. The Essex's Rebellion (1601) Elizabeth relied more and more on a small clique of advisors; the Cecils, , Lord Burghley and his son Robert, controlled the Privy Council and the treasury.Meanwhile, those on the outs coalesced around the dashing figure of Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. On this weekend in early February 1601 Shakespeare’s play Richard II was famously performed by the Lord Chamberlain’s Men in advance of the treacherous Essex rebellion. In modern productions of the play Claudius, the ultimate politician, often manages to imply he is insulted by Hamlet’s insinuation rather than giving anything away. His mad attempt to win back the queen’s favor backfired royally (as it were), and his rivals on the council pounced. As for Essex, he went to his death the next morning. Both tried to centralize power in the crown, both raised taxes, both fought unpopular wars in Ireland, both were effeminate, and both had had inconvenient relatives killed. Been struck so to the soul that presently Even in her just rage, neither she nor her advisers seems to have associated Shakespeare personally with responsibility for a play that was used to justify sedition – even to threaten the life of the Queen – little more than two weeks earlier. Isaac Butler is the co-host of Slate's Working podcast. Refresh and try again. But no matter what, if it told the story of Richard’s death, it was a play about dethroning a monarch who had lost the right to rule. It was thoughtfully written, contained a lot of information that I had not found elsewhere and there were many passages worth re-reading and taking the time to consider further. The author does a good job at showing Shakespeare's topical references, which were, she tells us, distortions of his usual poetic form in order to say them. Shall kin with kin and kind with kind confound; Shall here inhabit, and this land be call’d. At his trial he defended himself by protesting he had been in fear of his own life, and grovelled at the feet of the Queen who had shown him so much favour before. The Kentish antiquarian William Lambarde reported that he had, in August 1601, a conversation with the Queen in which she had said “I am Richard II, know ye not that?”, which has been taken as evidence for the power of the theatre in Elizabethan England. Did Shakespeare write King Lear in lockdown? The story always makes me think of Hamlet, who suggests that seeing an action played out on stage could make a guilty person confess: Even if we disregard this, there’s an even bigger problem: At this moment in time, Hayward was in jail for writing the very treatise supposedly adapted into this play. So it wouldn’t be completely outlandish to believe that Essex’s allies might make the comparison, too—conveniently just in time for his revolt. O, if you raise this house against this house. She establishes from first to last that Shakespeare wrote in an age of censorship; he could not write freely of his political beliefs. Assuming you believe Essex about his plan, the performance of Richard II—which he did not attend—becomes fairly innocuous. Essex was handed the responsibility of carrying out the campaign against Tyrone, and to do so was given sweeping powers of administration in Ireland.

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