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		Francis Meres, one year younger than Shakespeare, described himself as "Maister of Arte of both Universities"; in 1598 Meres published a work which has proven most valuable in dating Shakespeare's plays, for he mentions many of them, and in the most laudatory terms.
		Meres was, however, atypical of University men in his seemingly uncritical approval of English writers in general and English dramatists in particular.
		Meres goes on to refer to Marlowe, Chapman, and many other writers, several of whom were playwrights, but he does not lavish quite the same degree of praise on them.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLTnoframes/life/meres.html (286 words)

	Francis Meres -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Francis Meres (1565- January 29, 1647), was an (An Indo-European language belonging to the West Germanic branch; the official language of Britain and the United States and most of the Commonwealth countries) English churchman and (Writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay)) author.
		His relative, John Meres, was high sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1596, and apparently helped him in the early part of his career.
		He was born at Kirton in the Holland division of (An agricultural county of eastern England on the North Sea) Lincolnshire in 1565.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/F/Fr/Francis_Meres.htm (299 words)

	Shakespeare
		Since then it has occurred to me that scholars and historians have evidence in of this in Francis Meres' account of Shakespeare's works.
		Meres was a graduate of Cambridge, as was Marlowe.
		Meres' list of Shakespeare's plays and poems is frequently the cornerstone of Stratfordian claims, even though he makes no mention of the writer having been a lowly London actor.
	www2.localaccess.com /marlowe/privfr.htm (530 words)

	MERES, FRANCIS (1565-1647) - Encyclopedia Britannica - MERES, FRANCIS (1565-1647) - JCSM's Study Center
		MERES, FRANCIS (1565-1647), English divine and author, was born at Kirton in the Holland division of Lincolnshire in 1565.
		His kinsman, John Meres, was high sheriff of Lincolnshire in 1596, and apparently helped him in the early part of his career.
		Meres rendered immense service to the history of Elizabethan literature by the publication of his Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury (1598).
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/MEC_MIC/MERES_FRANCIS_1565_1647_.html (400 words)

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		Francis Meres placed him among "our best for tragedy" and Heywood elsewhere called him "Famous Kyd".
		Thomas Kyd was the son of Francis and Anna Kyd and was baptized in the church of St Mary Woolnoth, Lombard Street, London on November 6, 1558.
		Francis Kyd was a scrivener or notary and held an important position in the Company of Scriveners.
	www.buybookonline.net /t/th/thomas_kyd.html (951 words)

	Francis Meres
		MERES, FRANCIS (1565-1647).--Miscellaneous author, was of a Lincolnshire family, studied at Camb.
		He _pub._ in 1598 _Palladis Tamia: Wit's Treasury_, containing a comparison of English poets with Greek, Latin, and Italian.
	simplestartpage.com /2304_Francis_Meres.html (40 words)

	Chronology of Shakespeare plays - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Probably the "errors" in Francis Meres' 1598 list of Shakespeare plays.
		If this is the same as the play entitled 'The Night of Errors', it was performed on 28 December 1594.
		According to the first published edition it was performed by a company that folded in early 1593.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Chronology_of_Shakespeare_plays (524 words)

	STEPHEN GOSSON - LoveToKnow Article on STEPHEN GOSSON
		In 1598 Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia mentions him with Sidney, Spenser, Abraham Fraunce and others among the best for pastorall, but no pastorals of his are extant.
		Gosson replied to his various opponents in 1582 by his Pla yes Confuted in Five Actions, dedicated to Sir Francis Walsingham.
		Meanwhile he had taken orders, was made lecturer of the parish church at Stepney (1585), and was presented by the queen to the rectory of Great Wigborough, Essex, which he exchanged in 1600 for St Botoiphs, Bishopsgate.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GO/GOSSON_STEPHEN.htm (515 words)

	The Return of Parnassus
		First it must be recalled that Francis Meres, who was a Cambridge graduate, and who, with his interest in these matters, simply must have met Marlowe there, issued his now famous study, tooting English authors, Palladis Tamia or Wits Treasury, about the same time that the first part of Parnassus appeared, i.e., 1598.
		For if Meres had his "finger on the pulse of the literary scene," as Bate claims, and as Meres' book suggests, and for this to be meaningful to modern readers, it is of paramount concern as to which scene: Oxford's or Cambridge's.
		Meres, it turns out, knew far more than one might suspect, so this isn't to be construed to imply the author of Parnassus was completely in the dark.
	www2.localaccess.com /marlowe/parnassus.htm (4161 words)

	Henry Peacham on Oxford and Shakespeare
		In the Shakespeare authorship debate, there is a general perception among both Stratfordians and Oxfordians that after Francis Meres' famous list of great poets and dramatists in Palladis Tamia (1598), the awareness of Oxford as a literary figure largely disappeared until Alexander B. Grosart collected and published some of his poems in 1872.
		Unlike Frances Meres, Henry Peacham (1578-1643?) was extremely well-connected in the world of art and literature in London as well as the royal court, both as an artist and as a writer, for more than three decades.
		Meres, who graduated from Cambridge in 1587, eight years before Peacham, provides many different lists of poets, including those versed in Latin and other foreign languages, and offers sub-lists for eight categories or styles of poetry.
	www.everreader.com /peacham.htm (4676 words)

	1565 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Francis Meres, English churchman and author (died 1647)
		Francis Tanfield, Proprietary Governor of the South Falkland colony
	www.eastcleveland.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/1565 (416 words)

	Contenders: The URL of Derby
		Yet I believe that William Shakspur, the earl of Oxford, Sir Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe, the earl of Rutland, and every other proposed author I am familiar with is disqualified for good reason, and that the earl of Derby has not been disqualified.
		Shakspur of Stratford-on-Avon Sir Francis Bacon Christopher Marlowe Roger Manners, Fifth Earl of Rutland Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford William Stanley, Sixth Earl of Derby Group Theories
		Note: I use the masculine "he" and "him" when referring to the unknown author of the works of Shake-speare because I find the most convincing candidates to be men.
	www.rahul.net /raithel/Derby/contenders.html (1787 words)

	Shakespeare (Stratford) Authorship Argument at AbsoluteShakespeare.com
		Francis Meres criticized the Bard's work as "mellifluous" and honey tongued in his 1598 Palladis Tamia.
		Could Voltaire, Robert Greene, Samuel Pepys, Francis Meres and Ben Jonson have all suffered from a massive case of mistaken identity in the close-knit theatre world to which they largely belonged?
		Similarly, we know the Bard at least wrote some of his plays because one of his later works, The Noble Kinsmen (1613), was recorded in the Stationer’s Registry in 1634 as being the work of both Shakespeare and noted dramatist John Fletcher.
	absoluteshakespeare.com /trivia/authorship/authorship_shakespeare.htm (418 words)

	mmarley
		Francis Meres, in "Palladis Tamia", in 1598, had the name, Christopher Marlow, but said he was stabbed to death by a bawdy serving man, a rival in his lewd (presumably homosexual) love.[19][11]
		Francis Bacon also collected proverbs, phrases and sayings, and there was a lot of this kind of thing in the trunk.
		There is strong evidence that Francis Bacon transferred the principal mechanism of the Secret Service, along with the services of Phillepes and his brother Anthony (who had worked as a spy for Walsingham) to the Earl of Essex.
	www.sirbacon.org /mmarley.htm (11457 words)

	Oxford's Literary Reputation
		Meres lists them not because he was familiar with their plays (he couldn't have been) but because he had read that they were reputed to have written plays.
		Meres is writing more than a decade later than Puttenham and Webbe, and he will sometimes update information he finds in his sources.
		On the other hand, Meres also includes nine playwrights of a later generation than those mentioned by Puttenham, and his familiarity with their works is more probable.
	shakespeareauthorship.com /rep.html (6965 words)

	btheobaldrandconcealed
		An ingenious allegory by Francis Bacon, with hidden allusions to his bi-literal cipher.
		Francis Bacon's own acknowledgement that he was a concealed poet
		The startling revelations in these inscriptions form an irrefutable Baconian argument.
	www.sirbacon.org /btheobaldrandconcealed.htm (205 words)

	SHAKSPER 2003: Re: Love's Labour's Wonne
		Meres like a number of other contemporaries sometimes got things wrong, and it would be fruitless to try to invent the content of a play for which we only have a name.
		Bill possibly is, and Francis and Sam undoubtedly were, real nice guys.
		However no such text exists, and Meres may be confused.
	www.shaksper.net /archives/2003/0683.html (296 words)

	Bloomsbury.com - Research centre
		Meres, Francis (1565-1647) Author of Pallados Tamia, Wit's Treasury (1598), a book of moral and critical reflections.
		One chapter is an account of English writers, and his comments are interesting for estimating their reputations at the time.
	www.bloomsbury.com /ARC/detail.asp?EntryID=108419&bid=9 (37 words)

	The Great Globe
		Francis Meres, in his Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury, published in 1598, mentions twelve plays of which he knew:
		Taming of the Shrew (which Meres does not mention but certainly was in existence by this time) and Much Ado About Nothing are the leading contenders, though it is possible that there was a lost play by this name.
		The identity of Meres' Loves Labour's Won is not known, and much effort has been spent attempting to identify it.
	shakespeare.palomar.edu /timeline/greatglobe.htm (1471 words)

	Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.10.17
		Francis Meres neatly summed up one of the most striking literary kinships in the Western canon: "as the soule of Euphorbus was thought to live in Pythagoras, so the sweete wittie soule of Ovid lives in mellifluous and hony-tongued Shakespeare..."
		Meres' conception of literary history as metempsychosis receives an astute analysis by Charles Martindale in the volume under review (198-9).
		In recent years, Shakespeareans and Ovidians have increasingly come to appreciate the conspicuous homophrosyne of their authors and have started to explore how it plays itself out in intertextual practice.
	ccat.sas.upenn.edu /bmcr/2002/2002-10-17.html (3679 words)

	Much Ado About Nothing: Beatrice and Benedick
		Some believe that because Francis Meres, in his work Palladis Tamia, did not list it among Shakespeare's comedies published in the summer of 1598, the play was not finished by that time.
		But others believe that such an omission is not evidence enough to support that it was written after Meres' listings.
		In 1600 the play was registered with the English guild of publishers known as the Stationers' Company, and was printed later that year in the only early quarto version.
	www.shakespeare-online.com /faq/muchadofaq.html (290 words)

	Biography. The Years of Fame.
		In 1598, the author of a book on the arts, Francis Meres, described Shakespeare as the best contemporary dramatist and mentioned twelve of his plays, including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Richard II and Henry IV, all of which date from the mid- to late-1590s.
		An exception was the English clergyman and schoolmaster Francis Meres.
		During the years Shakespeare performed with the Chamberlain's Men, before their purchase of the Globe in 1599, they played primarily at the well-established theatres like the Swan, the Curtain, and the Theatre.
	www.the-quill.com /AboutShakespeare/Biography/TheYearsOfFame.htm (975 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: About Midsummer Night's Dream
		A Midsummer Night's Dream is first mentioned by Francis Meres in 1598, leading many scholars to date the play between 1594 and 1596.
		One of the most remarkable features of A Midsummer Night's Dream is that at the end members of the audience are unsure whether what they have seen is real, or whether they have woken up after having shared the same dream.
		Throughout the play the lower artisans, who wish to perform Pyramus and Thisbe, try to corrupt the plot and assure the audience that the play is not real and that they need not fear the actions taking place.
	www.gradesaver.com /ClassicNotes/Titles/midsummernight/about.html (698 words)

	francis beaumont - Books, journals, articles @ The Questia Online Library
		Only a month earlier, young Francis Beaumont had died, receiving the tribute of verses by his fellow...No plays have survived with his name on them, but Francis Meres (1598) lists him "among the best for comedy...
		In June 2003, William McDonald, 39 and Francis Kenny, 44, both from Dublin were sentenced to five and three...his family were devastated to discover nothing had changed at Beaumont.
		(Francis Beaumont was Inner Temple.) No one disputes that in 1602 the Middle Temple was at the heart of the London literary scene...
	www.questia.com /search/francis-beaumont (1541 words)

	The Shakespeare-Bacon Theory
		The evidence of Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia (1598) has already been referred to.
		It is incredible that Ben Jonson, who knew both Shakespeare and Bacon intimately, who himself dubbed Shakespeare the "swan of Avon," and who survived Bacon for eleven years, could have died without revealing the alleged secret, at a time when there was no reason for concealing it.
		It may be useful here to add to what has been written in the preceding article some of the positive contemporary allusions to Shakespeare which establish this presumption.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/shakespeare030.html (1349 words)

	Palladis Tamia - Comparative Discourse
		Meres, Francis (1565-1647) was briefly an author and commentator on the London literary scene; primarily a rural minister and schoolmaster.
		Thus in the authorship controversy Meres gave fuel to both the supporters of William Shaksper of Stratford and the supporters of Edward De Vere.
		As C. Plinius writ the life of Pomponius Secundus, so young Charles Fitzgeffrey, that high towering falcon, hath most gloriously penned the honourable life and death of worthy Sir Francis Drake.
	www.elizabethanauthors.com /palladis.htm (2067 words)

	CHAPMAN, GEORGE (? 15591634) - Encyclopedia Britannica - CHAPMAN, GEORGE (? 15591634) - JCSM's Study Center
		It has been suggested, from the detailed knowledge displayed in The Shadow of Night of an incident in Sir Francis Vere's campaign, that he saw service in the Netherlands.
		(1594), the second of which deals with Sir Francis Vere's campaign in the Netherlands; Ovid's Banquet of Sence.
		A Coronet for his Mistresse Philosophie; and His Amorous Zodiacke with a translation of a Latine coppie, written by a Fryer, Anno Dom.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/CAU_CHA/CHAPMAN_GEORGE_15591634_.html (1798 words)

	Works Cited: 2nd Cryptographic Shakespeare
		Gentry, R.J.W. "Francis Bacon as an Essayist and Orator." Baconiana No. 156 (1957).
		Crowther, J. Francis Bacon, the First Statesman of Science.
		"Francis Bacon and the Utopias." Baconiana No. 167 (1967).
	home.att.net /~tleary/pnotes.htm (286 words)

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