Andy asked:-
>By the way, since Barnfield keeps cropping up, does anyone know which Knight
>loved both Dowland and Spenser?
The Barnfield verses appeared in 'Shakespeare's' 'The Passionate
Pilgrim' because Marlowe wrote them. That's why his 'Passionate
Shepherd to his Love' appears in there as well. William Jaggard
knew something that modern scholars don't -- all of the poems in
'The Passionate Pilgrim' WERE written by the man known as
'Shakespeare' BUT some of them had been published under his
other pseudonyms.
The one that you refer to belongs with the Shakespeare Sonnets.
Marlowe admired the poetry of Spenser and the Dark Lady, Lucy
Stanley, loved the music of John Dowland. The knight who loved
them both was the Dark Lady's husband, Edward Stanley. Marlowe
moved in with the Stanleys in 1598 (5 years after he had been
exiled) and the story is told from Sonnet 69 through to the end of the
sequence. Lucy died in 1601 and that's when 'The Phoenix and
Turtle' was written, along with the rest of 'Love's Martyr', as a
memorial to the Dark Lady.
Well you did ask...
Peter Zenner
+44 (0) 1246 271726
Visit my web site 'Zenigmas' at
http://www.pzenner.freeserve.co.uk
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