Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal

Dennis McCarthy; June Schlueter

doi:10.5771/9781683933069

Thomas North's 1555 Travel Journal

From Italy to Shakespeare

1. Edition 2021

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doi.org/10.5771/9781683933069
ISBN print: 978-1-68393-305-2
ISBN online: 978-1-68393-306-9
Lexington, Lanham Lexington, Lanham

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Abstract

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.

Schlagworte

Literary Studies Literature Manuscript studies Art history Henry VIII History Italian studies Digital Humanities Early Modern Studies Shakespeare Shakespeare studies The Winter’s Tale

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i–xii Preface i–xii
1–10 1 The Journey 1–10
11–26 2 The Journal and Its Author 11–26
27–40 3 From Italy to Shakespeare 27–40
41–62 4 Revisiting History: North’s Sources—and Shakespeare’s 41–62
63–82 5 Henry VIII: Transplanting a Marian History Play 63–82
83–114 6 The Winter’s Tale: An Homage to Queen Mary 83–114
115–138 7 The Winter’s Tale and Mantua 115–138
139–166 8 Further Thoughts on The Winter’s Tale 139–166
167–172 Epilogue: The Lost Playwright 167–172
173–228 The Transcript 173–228
229–240 Index 229–240
241–241 About the Authors 241–241

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