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 […]