JOURNAL OF NEVILLE STUDIES, Vol.1, Issue 2., February, 2008
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
EVIDENCE FOR SHAKESPEARE-NEVILLE’S AUTHORSHIP
IN ARDEN OF FAVERSHAM by John Casson‘Arden of Faversham’ has often been thought to belong to the early Shakespeare canon. However, one insuperable problem regarding its authorship by a Stratford man is its setting: as one scholar remarked to Dr. Casson, ‘The play must have been written by a Kentish gentleman.’ Neville was a Kentish gentleman during the period when he ran his ironworking business in Mayfield. He knew the area, its stories, and its connections...
SHAKESPEARE-NEVILLE, CERVANTES, AND THE TREATY OF BOULOGNE by Brenda James Through her original research, Brenda James has discovered connections between ‘Shakespeare’, Sir Henry Neville and the works of Cervantes which have never before been suspected. This places yet another missing piece in the jigsaw puzzle of the Shakespeare works. These connections are missing from every other authorship contender...
THE LETTERS AND DISPATCHES OF SIR HENRY NEVILLE, Part 2Transcriptions and Commentary by Brenda James Read and discover the many linguistic and circumstantial connections between Sir Henry and the works of Shakespeare, and especially the links with ‘Henry V’ which was being written precisely at the time Neville was writing these particular dispatches. Read Neville’s reports of his first audiences with King Henri IV of France...
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
