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Shakespeare's Greatest Love
Relying on historical and literary evidence hidden in plain sight, Shakespeare's Greatest Love tells the true, uncensored...
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Relying on historical and literary evidence hidden in plain sight, Shakespeare's Greatest Love tells the true, uncensored love story of William Shakespeare and Henry Wriothesley, 3rd Earl of Southampton.
"Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate."
--Shakespeare's Sonnet 18, written for and about Southampton.
Leaving behind a wife and three young children in Stratford-upon-Avon, Shakespeare moved to London for its thrilling theater scene, where everyone mixed freely across ages, classes, and ranks.
It was through their mutual passion for the theater that the handsome twenty-seven-year-old playwright first met and fell deeply in love with the effeminate seventeen-year-old earl who beguiled men and women alike and avowed that 'desire and pleasure [should] sometimes triumph over reason.'
Author David Medina demonstrates that Shakespeare wrote more of his plays and poems for and about Southampton than anyone else--works that are sexually charged, romantic, and homoerotic. He also chronicles the evidence that Southampton provided Shakespeare the support he needed to secure his acting company share, coat of arms, family residence, royal commission, life portrait, and funerary bust.
Shakespeare and Southampton's personal and professional relationship evolved privately and publicly over a quarter century against the backdrop of a national anti-sodomy law, multiple plague outbreaks, unexpected pregnancies, rushed and possibly forced marriages, a failed rebellion, and political imprisonments.
Shakespeare's Greatest Love challenges us all to recognize Southampton as the individual who had the most significant impact on Shakespeare's life, literature, and legacy.
Author: David Medina
Publisher: Disruption Books
Published: 04/22/2025
Pages: 128
Binding Type: Paperback
ISBN: 9781633311060
About the Author
David Medina has more than thirty years of national policy and political experience in Washington D.C.. He has held senior roles in the White House, U.S. Senate, national labor and civil rights organizations, and presidential campaigns. He is a cofounder of Results for America, a national organization that helps governments at all levels build and use evidence and data. David received his B.A. from the University of Chicago and M.P.P. from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government.
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