Word: southampton
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...book, Alias Shakespeare, Joseph Sobran posits another reason for De Vere's alleged secrecy. The sonnets, he says, may have started as a playful artifice in courting the Earl of Southampton to marry De Vere's daughter, but they evolved into a dense homoeroticism. All the more reason to keep his authorship secret. (In this context there is a telling silence in Richard II. The historic King was notorious for a homosexual affair with the earl's ancestor Robert de Vere. Shakespeare's play begins after that affair is over, with no mention of the relative.) Thus while the earl...
Last night's game served only as a warm-up to a crucial weekend. The Crimson begins league play on Sunday at Long Island University-Southampton...
...Southampton] is definitely a tough team," Wilson said. "As long as we continue to play up to our potential, we should be able...
...dwarfed mere kings. The Rothschilds resolutely refused to abandon their religion, even as they became barons and lords as well as collectors of great Christian art. Thus it was a family catastrophe when Nathan's second daughter, Hannah, renounced Judaism to marry a Christian, the younger son of Lord Southampton. The family banished Hannah and considered her dead. The marriage seemed cursed. Hannah's young son died in a fall from a pony. Her husband was passed over by Lord Aberdeen for the post of Secretary at the Admiralty. And so on. In the Rothschilds, Ferguson finds enough great material...
...Harvard proved soon thereafter that when it played to its potential, weaker opponents need not apply. The Crimson rebounded from back-to-back losses to Southampton and NYU by cleaning up at the Vassar-hosted Burgundy and Grey Invitational Tournament...