Myth of the Month 10: Who Was Shakespeare? -- pt. 3: "The Maiden's Organ"
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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The Dedication of the Sonnets to Lord Southampton
Henry ritesley is named as the dedicate of two earlier published poems by shakespeareis venus and adonis and the rape of lucrece. He was considered to be not only good looking, but according to the surviving miniature portrait of lord southampton, he was quite pretty. For time in the early 15 nineties, henry ritesley also refused to marry. Went against his family's wishes and refused a match to the granddaughter of lord burley. Later on, around 16 hundred, he fell in love with and married a lady in waiting at elizabeth's court. So ocould this possibly match the apparent bi sexuality of the young man? Could this lady of wa
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