"Was William Shakespeare William Shakeshafte?" Revisited

Shakespeare Quarterly

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 83-94

  Bearman, Robert ^a  

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EID: 60949193838     PISSN: 00373222     EISSN: 15383555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/shq.2002.0002     Document Type: Review

References (21)

1. See Douglas Hamer, "Was William Shakespeare William Shakeshafte?," Review of English Studies, n.s. 21.81 (1970): 41-48.
2. An incomplete text of Hoghton's will is printed in Lancashire and Cheshire Wills and Inventories from the Ecclesiastical Court, Chester: The Second Portion, ed. G. J. Piccope, Chetham Society, o.s. 51 (1860), 237-41. Passages relating to Shakeshafte are included as an appendix to this article.
3. E. K. Chambers, The Elizabethan Stage (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1923), 280.
4. Oliver Baker, In Shakespeare's Warwickshire and the Unknown Years (London: Simpkin Marshall, 1937), 297-319, esp. 319.
5. E. K. Chambers, "William Shakeshafte" in his Shakespearean Gleanings (London: Oxford UP, 1944), 52-56 (the note had been written in 1943);
6. The Stanley Papers, Part II: The Derby Household Books, ed. F. R. Raines, Chetham Society, o.s. 31 (1853), 46;
7. and David George, ed., Records of Early English Drama: Lancashire (Toronto: U of Toronto P 1991), 180 and 354.
8. See, for example, Alan Keen and Roger Lubbock, The Annotator: The Pursuit of an Elizabethan Reader of Halle's Chronicle Involving some Surmises About the Early Life of William Shakespeare (London: Putman 1954), 34-35, 43-47, and 74-81;
9. and Robert Stevenson, Shakespeare's Religious Frontier (The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1958), 67-83.
10. See Mark Eccles, Shakespeare in Warwickshire (Madison: U of Wisconsin P, 1961), 74.
11. See S. Schoenbaum, Shakespeare's Lives (Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford UP 1970), 734-36;
12. and S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life (New York: Oxford UP 1977), 112-15.
13. E.A.J. Honigmann, Shakespeare: the 'lost years' (Manchester, UK: Manchester UP 1985). Subsequent references are to the second edition (1998).
14. This connection had been well demonstrated by Thomas Whitfield Baldwin in his William Shakspere's Small Latine & Lesse Greeke (2 vols. [Urbana: U of Illinois P 1944], 1:480-85) but the implications not fully appreciated.
15. S. Schoenbaum, William Shakespeare: A Compact Documentary Life, rev. ed. (Oxford: Oxford UP 1987), 115;
16. S. Schoenbaum, Shakespeare's Lives, new ed. (New York and Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), 536n. See also Honigmann, 17.
17. The Rolls of Burgesses at the Guilds Merchant of the Borough of Preston, ed. W. Alexander Abram, Lancashire and Cheshire Record Society (LCRS) 9 (1884): 17-18, 22, 27, 29, 32, 36,48-49, 53, and 58.
18. Extents and surveys exist for 1559, 1571/2, 1580, and 1590, described in J. H. Lumby, A Calendar of the Deeds and Papers in the Possession of Sir James de Hoghton, Bart, LCRS 88 (1936), nos. 45, 50, and 52. The originals, in the same order, are: LRO, DDHo KK 1114; PRO, E 178/1195; LRQ DDHo KK 1119; LRO, DDHo KK 1120.
19. "Deed, 20 July 1580" (LRQ DDHo GG1090), quoted here from Honigmann, 141. For the settlement itself, and other associated documents, see Lumby, Calendar of Deeds, nos. 1216, 1402, and 1403.
20. For Barton and Livesey, see Honigmann, 17 and 140. For the others, see "A List of Freeholders in Lancashire in the year 1600," ed. J. P. Earwaker, in Miscellanies Relating to Lancashire and Cheshire, I, LCRS 12 (1885).
21. Acts of the Privy Council of England, n.s., 32 vols. (London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, 1890-1907), 12:346. For Thomas Hoghton's obsessive concern for his servants' future welfare, see his correspondence while in exile: John Rylands Library (Manchester), English ms. 213, nos. 2, 8,10, 13, 14, and 15 (no. 8 is transcribed in George, ed., 153-54).