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Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal

From Italy to Shakespeare
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 2021

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Thomas North’s 1555 Travel Journal: From Italy to Shakespeare makes available a little known early modern journal kept by a member of Queen Mary’s delegation to Rome, its purpose to win papal approval of England’s return to Roman Catholicism. The book provides details of the six-month journey, a discussion of the manuscript, and an identification of the twenty-year-old Thomas North as its author. It also points to numerous connections between the journal and the plays of Shakespeare, extending the playwright’s debt beyond North’s translation of Plutarch’s Lives and revealing how the journal served as a template for The Winter’s Tale and Henry VIII. Both, the authors argue, were written by North during the Marian years (1554-58) and later adapted by Shakespeare. Like the authors’ 2018 “A Brief Discourse of Rebellion and Rebels” by George North,this book presents original work using digital research tools, including massive databases and plagiarism software. The earlier book garnered worldwide attention, with a front-page story in The New York Times.

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Copyright year
2021
ISBN-Print
978-1-68393-305-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-68393-306-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
241
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. List of Illustrations No access
    3. Acknowledgments No access
  1. 1 The Journey No access Pages 1 - 10
  2. 2 The Journal and Its Author No access Pages 11 - 26
  3. 3 From Italy to Shakespeare No access Pages 27 - 40
  4. 4 Revisiting History: North’s Sources—and Shakespeare’s No access Pages 41 - 62
  5. 5 Henry VIII: Transplanting a Marian History Play No access Pages 63 - 82
  6. 6 The Winter’s Tale: An Homage to Queen Mary No access Pages 83 - 114
  7. 7 The Winter’s Tale and Mantua No access Pages 115 - 138
  8. 8 Further Thoughts on The Winter’s Tale No access Pages 139 - 166
  9. Epilogue: The Lost Playwright No access Pages 167 - 172
  10. The Transcript No access Pages 173 - 228
  11. Index No access Pages 229 - 240
  12. About the Authors No access Pages 241 - 241

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