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?
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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