9:03:...to bring the truth to light
PRO SP12/252 "yet since I have engaged myself so far in Her Majesty's service, to bring the truth to light"....
It does not seem to me at all obvious that Elizabeth would have granted de Vere 1,000 pounds a year to write plays.
Maybe that was her intent, but given the circumstances, it seems hard to rationalize in view of other possible explanations.
One cannot suppose that the writing of plays would necessarily result in bringing truth to light, much as some theater enthusiasts might so wish.
When one considers that Marlowe was a Walsingham agent, and now seems also to have collaborated with Shakespeare, thinking of Shakespeare also as an agent, for whatever purposes, makes more sense than for just writing plays on a royal commission, although being involved in theatre, the London stage world, would also itself have had important and manifest intelligence implications.
When one considers that Marlowe was a Walsingham agent, and now seems also to have collaborated with Shakespeare, thinking of Shakespeare also as an agent, for whatever purposes, makes more sense than for just writing plays on a royal commission, although being involved in theatre, the London stage world, would also itself have had important and manifest intelligence implications.
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