Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers

by Henry Green

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Shakespeare and the Emblem Writers includes a group of portraits from original plates, one of Bocchius by Bonasone, A.D. 1555, and others by Theodore de Bry, A.D. 1597. The text says that Shakespeare refers to a fable of the vine clinging to the withered elm in the Comedy of Errors, when Adriana addresses Antipholus of Syracuse with the words Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine.

The text quotes emblem verses in which the vyne doth still embrace the elme by age ore-past, and Loue is not kil’d by death, that after death doth last. The text mentions a matchless shield by Vehm on which are hammered out the discoveries of Newton, Milton’s noble epics, and Shakespeare’s dramatic wonders. The text quotes lines which say that the work must be read with skill, heed, and judgment, or it stands in small stead to the reader, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses translated out of Latin in English metre by Arthur Golding, gent.

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Henry Green

Henry Vincent Yorke, who wrote under the pen name Henry Green, was an English writer best remembered for the novels Living (1929), Party Going (1939) and Loving (1945). He published a total of nine novels between 1926 and 1952. He is considered as one of the group designated in the 1920s/30s as the 'Bright Young Things' by the tabloid press.