The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 16.0809  Wednesday, 27 April 2005

From:           Stanley Wells <
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Date:           Wednesday, 27 Apr 2005 16:21:59 +0100
Subject: 16.0762 Lady Norton or Henry Wriothesley
Comment:        RE: SHK 16.0762 Lady Norton or Henry Wriothesley

You can find press reports (of varying stages of reliability) of the
discovery of the true identity of the sitter by typing

Lady Norton Southampton

into Google.

The owner of the portrait, Alec Cobbe and I are editing a book, with the
provisional title of 'Shakespeare's Lovely Boy: Poet and Patron', which
will be published within the next few months. It will be amply
illustrated and will include essays by a number of distinguished
contributors relating to the portrait and to Southampton as patron,
along with reprints of the Shakespeare poems dedicated to the earl.

Stanley Wells

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