Darnya Cooper!!
Art Neuendorffer
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1846783,00.html
<<Dr Tarnya Cooper, the curator of the 16th-century collections at the
National Portrait Gallery, said that the image of a man in the first
flush of youth had ?fuelled the kind of Shakespeare in love theories
of the 21st century, of a beautiful young man with a sensitive and
passionate face, of a character with an incredible emotional range?.
The oil painting, by an anonymous hand, dates from 1588, when
Shakespeare would have been 24. The inscription on the top of the
picture records the age of 24 with the date 1588, making the sitter
an exact contemporary of Shakespeare.
But gallery experts say that Shakespeare was about to join a
travelling theatre troupe at the age of 24, after becoming
a father to twins, and was unlikely to have been able
to afford the style of dress seen in the portrait.
The gallery, which noted that the John Rylands Library does not
uphold the identification of this painting as of Shakespeare,
restored the portrait in preparation for its Searching for
Shakespeare exhibition next year.
The painting had suffered some damage including significant
woodworm damage. The technical examination focused on confirming
the date of the panel, and exploring an adjustment changing
the inscription from 23 to 24.
The change in the lettering was confirmed through the use of
paint sampling as contemporary with the rest of the picture, which
indicates that the young man had probably passed his 24th birthday by
the time the painting was complete and requested his age be altered.
There are about half a dozen 17th-century paintings that are
contenders to be considered genuine portraits of the Bard,
although nearly all have been the subject of disagreements.
None of them was definitely executed from life, according to a
spokesman for the gallery, but six of the most famous candidates
will figure in the Searching for Shakespeare exhibition.
Earlier this year experts at the gallery confirmed that the ?Flower?
portrait, owned by the Royal Shakespeare Company, was a fake.
Through scientific analysis, they have discovered that although the
painting bears the inscription 1609 it actually dates from the early
19th century. The image is painted on top of a 16th-century portrait
of the Madonna and child.
The so-called Chandos portrait, which has been the subject of
fierce debate over whether it really does feature Shakespeare,
is next in line for examination.
Experts are holding out hope that the Chandos portrait may have been
painted from the Bard in the flesh. Given the name because it was
once owned by the Duke of Chandos, it has been attributed to
a painter called *JOHN TAYLOR* and dated to about 1610
? six years before he died, aged 52.
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<<The first tribute to Shakespeare which can be dated precisely is
a poem in *JOHN TAYLOR*'s The Praise of HEMP-seed (1620) which lists
Shakespeare along with Spenser, Sidney and other famous dead
English poets who Taylor says will live on in their verses
(Chambers II, 226).>>
http://www.clark.net/pub/tross/ws/whynot.html
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*JOHN TAYLOR*, the Water Poet,
has a poem in The Praise of HEMP-seed (1620):
http://www.shakespeareauthorship.com/eulogies.html
*IN PAPER* , many a poet now survives
Or else their lines had perish'd with their lives.
Old Chaucer, Gower, and Sir Thomas More,
Sir Philip Sidney, who the laurel wore,
Spenser, and Shakespeare did in art excell,
Sir Edward Dyer, Greene, Nash, Daniel.
Sylvester, Beaumont, SIR JOHN HARRINGTON,
Forgetfulness their *WORKS WOULD OVER RUN*
But that *IN PAPER* they immortally
Do live in spite of death, and cannot die.
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<<"When *HEMPE* is spun England is done." Lord Bacon says he heard
the prophecy when he was a child, and he interpreted it thus:
*HEMPE* is composed of the initial letters of
Henry, Edward, Mary, Philip, and Elizabeth.
At the close of the last reign "England was done,"
for the sovereign no longer styled himself "King of England,"
but "King of Great Britain and Ireland.">>
http://www.bibliomania.com/Reference/PhraseAndFable/data/597.html
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Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions - Charles MacKay
"When *HEMPE* is ripe and ready to pull,
Then Englishman beware thy skull."
<<This prophecy, which, one would think, ought to have put him in
mind of the gallows, the not unusual fate of false prophets, and
perchance his own, he explains thus: -- "In this word *HEMPE* be five
letters. Now, by reckoning the five successive princes from Henry
VIII, this prophecy is easily explained: H signifieth King Henry
before named; E, Edward, his son, the sixth of that name; M, Mary,
who succeeded him; P, Philip of Spain, who, by marrying Queen Mary,
participated with her in the English diadem; and, lastly, E signifieth
Queen Elizabeth, after whose death there was a great feare that some
troubles might have arisen about the crown." As this did not happen,
Heywood, who was a sly rogue in a small way, gets out of the scrape
by saying, "Yet proved this augury true, though not according to
the former expectation; for, after the peaceful inauguration
of King James, there was great mortality, not in London only,
but through the whole kingdom, and from which the nation
was not quite clean in seven years after.">>
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The Shakespeare "Signatures" Deconstructed
By Robert Detobel
<<Illiterate people could use a seal instead of putting their mark.
"The Durham husbandman *JOHN TAYLOR* who suspected his half brother
of trying to lay hands on his land by 'bringinge certain writeings
to me which I could not certainly tell what they were...all which
I did refuse to seale' knew the disadvantages of illiteracy.">>
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Stabbed in the Eye by *JOHN TAYLOR*
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Handel was born 50 miles from Eisenach,
Bach's birthplace in the same year as Bach.
<<In 1719 Bach attempted to arrange a meeting with the visiting
Handel. Although this meeting never took place, in one of the curious
ironies of music history, both men would be afflicted with cataracts
in their old age, undergo surgery at the hand of the same oculist,
*JOHN TAYLOR*, and die from sepsimia induced as a consequence of
un-sterile instruments employed to push the cataract covered lense
back into the eyeball (in an attempt to allow some light to enter).
http://www2.nau.edu/~tas3/handel.html
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Haddon Hall: the seat of the Duke of Rutland.
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http://www.derbyshireguide.co.uk/travel/haddon.htm
<<Rayner, in his History and Antiquities of Haddon Hall, tells a rich
story of old times (the story was told to Rayner by William Hage, the
Guide, "a descendant of John Ward, who, in 1527, was deer-keeper to
the Lord of Haddon" . . . "who was turned out of the family six times
for drinking too much, and at length died drunk. His son, however,
succeeded him in his office; and his posterity in the female line
have continued in the service of the proprietors of Haddon Hall
to the present time." .
"A great butcher, who used to fit the family at Haddon with small
meat, a fat man weighing eighteen stone, named *JOHN TAYLOR*, from
Darley Dale, came at Christmas time, when they were keeping open
house; and the old Earl's wife would not let the butter go into the
larder till she had seen it, so it remained in the old family hall
(the Banqueting Hall) and stood there for some hours. The butlers (of
whom there were two, one for the small-beer cellar and the other for
the strong) had for several weeks before missed two pounds of butter
every week, and they could not think what had become of it, or who had
taken it, so they determined to watch, one butler spying through the
little door, and the other through the great door, when presently
the great butcher came as usual for orders for small meat; and after
looking round he lays his fingers upon the butter, and pops one pound
of butter within his coat on one side, and another pound on the other
side. This was observed, and the butler from the strong beer cellar
came up to the butcher saying, 'Jack, it is Christmas time - I have a
famous jack of strong beer and you shall have it before you go. Sit
you down by the kitchen fire.' He sat there awhile, when the butler,
handing him the flagon, said, 'Don't be afraid of it, I will fetch
some more.' And as he sat near the fire, the butter on one side
melting with the heat, began to trickle down his breeches
into his shoes. 'Why Jack,' said the butler, 'you seem a great deal
fatter on one side than the other. Turn yourself round, you must be
starved on one side.' He was obliged to comply, and presently the
butter ran down that side also; and afterwards, as he walked up the
Hall, the melted butter ran over the tops of his shoes. The Earl,
says Hage, made a laughing-stock of it, but if such a thing was to
be done in these days, the man would be turned out of the family".
This nobleman was the grandson of our Dorothy,
and his lady was Elizabeth, daughter of Lord Montagu.>>
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http://www.peakleisure.co.uk/bakewell.htm
<<A local butcher *JOHN TAYLOR* supplied the Hall with meat,
two of the butlers noticed that butter went missing after his meat
deliveries. They hatched a plan to leave some butter easily available
on a table and concealed themselves on his next visit. After noting
that Taylor placed the butter in his trouser pockets, the butlers
plied him with some strong wine and sat him before a roaring
fire while the melting butter ran into his shoes.
The Manners influence can be seen in the Old Market Hall in the town
centre, the shield of the Manners family adorns the outside of the
building which is now used as an Information Centre. Roger Manners
built the Hospital of St Joseph in 1593, it was later rebuilt and
converted into almshouses. The local grammar school was founded by
Lady Manners in 1636. The octagonal spired All Saint's Church stands
overlooking the town, inside in the Manners Chapel is the tomb of
Dorothy Vernon, her husband John Manners and four of their children.
Look out for the gruesome gargoyles in the church porch. Alongside
the church is the Old Tudor House Museum and below, Avenel Court, a
group of old buildings containing the Old Town Hall built in 1684.
According to the court records of the 18th century, the GALLOWS at
Bakewell worked overtime. A small sample illustrates the severity
of the punishment and the implication that. ' crime didn't pay !'
in Bakewell.
1705, John Crossland and his two sons were convicted of
horse stealing, the bench offered a pardon to
the one who would hang the other two
1735, John Smith, executed for burglary.
1738, Richard Woodward, executed for highway robbery.
He dressed himself in a shroud and walked to the GALLOWS.
1740, George Ashmore, hanged for coining, his body
was later subsequently stolen by resurrectionists.>>
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Moby Dick - Melville
<< "HEMP only can kill thee."
"The GALLOWS, ye mean.- I am immortal then, on land and on sea,"
cried Ahab, with a laugh of derision;- "Immortal on land and on sea!"
Both were silent again, as one man.
Two enormous wooden pots painted black, and suspended by asses'
ears, swung from the cross-trees of an old top-mast, planted in
front of an old doorway. The horns of the cross-trees were sawed off
on the other side, so that this old top-mast looked not a little
like a GALLOWS. Perhaps I was over sensitive to such impressions at
the time, but I could not help staring at this GALLOWS with a vague
misgiving. A sort of crick was in my neck as I gazed up to the two
remaining horns; yes, two of them, one for Queequeg, and one for me.
It's ominous, thinks I. A Coffin my Innkeeper upon landing
in my first whaling port; tombstones staring at me
in the whalemen's chapel, and here a GALLOWS!>>
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Q2 & Folio: "CLAMBRIN[G] TO HANG, AN ENVIOUS SLIVER BROKE"
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Genesis 4:12:a fugitive and a *VAGABOND* shalt thou be in the earth.
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Art Neuendorffer