RENAISSANCE IMAGES (CA. 1500-1600)

1. Sir Philip Sidney

2. Playwright John Ford (of Tis a Pity She's a Whore fame).

3. Francis Bacon: essayist, father of modern science, disgraced politician.

4. A page from Robert Burton's lengthy Anatomy of Melancholy

5. A page from the King James Bible.

6. Playwright John Fletcher (not his relatives, Giles the elder [uncle] or Giles the younger [cousin] or Phineas [cousin], all important writers).

7. A scene from the Coverdale Bible (ca. 1535).

8. A scene from a lurid English legend: the young princes in the Tower of London, placed there by their protector-regent-uncle Richard of Gloucester (later King Richard III) for "safe-keeping." The "tender babes" were reputed later to be murdered, at their Uncle's orders, by the infamous Tyrrel. This, of course, added to the unpopularity of a King who would soon lose his crown. It is very possible that Richard III was innocent of this bloody misdeed. What then happened to the princes? One suggestion is that after Henry Tudor took the crown from Richard III, he (now Henry VII) found the princes alive in the tower; and, to keep his throne undisputed, he ordered them murdered.

9. A link to many pictures related to Shakespeare.

There are some more links listed under the Shakespeare course on the entry page to my internet site.