BEN JONSON, JOHN FLORIO, AND THE FIRST FOLIO
It has been suggested by some Shakespeare’s scholars that The First Folio was a project organised by Ben Jonson and John Florio. John Florio’s friendship with Ben Jonson is of […]
SHAKESPEARE & JOHN FLORIO: SONNETS
SHAKESPEARE & JOHN FLORIO: SONNETS John Florio in William Vaughan’s Golden Fleece: Shakespeare’s Sonnets Shakespeare and John Florio were both involved in the production of sonnets. A year after John Florio’s […]
JOHN FLORIO, SHAKESPEARE, AND HENRY WRIOTHESLEY
Shakespeare and John Florio shared the same patron in the same period: Henry Wriothesley, the Third Earl of Southampton, who has been frequently identified as the Fair Youth of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Shakespeare’s and […]
SHAKESPEARE & JOHN FLORIO: THE DANVERS CASE
SHAKESPEARE & JOHN FLORIO: THE DANVERS CASE It has been suggested by many Shakespeare’s scholars that the famous Danvers-Long feud inspired Shakespeare for the plot of Romeo and Juliet. But what’s […]
JOHN FLORIO & THOMAS THORPE
John Florio had a close relationship with Thomas Thorpe. Thomas Thorpe, in 1610, published a translation from Epictetus his Manuall and he dedicated this work to John Florio, reminding Thorpe that […]