6 Jun 2016

(434) Why on earth in 1598 did a Charles Butler cover-up the name of the poet Shake-speare?

Why the preeminent poet of England "Shake-speare“ was omitted

 but not „Drayton“  in 1598?








A certain Charles Butler in the Second Edition of Latin "Rhetoricae" (1598 s.Faksimile )  [First Edition 1597: Rameae Rhetoricae]  compared the best ancient poets  Homer, Vergil [Maro], Ovid  with the best contemporary English poets Spencer, Daniel, Drayton. 
Why the preeminent poet of England, Shake-speare had to be concealed?

Translation (Charles Butler:) "best poets"*  * Those amongst our poets most deserving of comparison with Homer, Virgil and Ovid are Edmund Spencer, Samuel Daniel, Michael Drayton:  and another, full of ingenuity and artistic skill (of which this age is fertile ). first of all a teacher, alone obscured by the light of his time, ---[and]Geoffrey Chaucer.

Academic Shakespeare experts haven't yet explained, why this highly educated Charles Butler  did not mention Shake-speare!

 Charles Butler is said to have graduated in the same field  (Master of Arts) in the same year than Marlowe (1587) , in Oxford. - He is said to have accepted a pastorate at Wootton St Lawrence in 1600 and served that rural post to his death in 1647.

According to Encyclopedias  Charles Butler  (1560–1647), was one of the forefathers of English "apiarists ", he was a logician, linguist , grammarist, author, composer, Music theorist, Pastorate (Vicar of Wootton St Lawrence, near Basingstoke, England), 
and an influential beekeeper.!!

It wasn’t until 1586 that it was recognized that the head of the honey bee colony is a female queen. This news was popularized by Charles Butler… prior to that, it was assumed the head of the colony must be a male – a ‘king’.




Even William Shakespeare, in Henry V, refers to honey bees living in a kingdom, with a king as ruler.”  

“6 years  after Queen Elizabeth death,  Charles Butler published "The Feminine Monarchie" (1609).  On the surface, the book reflected a dominant philosophy of seventeenth-century England -  that is, nature was a model for human virtue.


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