Shakespeare's Southampton, patron of Virginia.

Description:

Southampton's ardent and generous discipleship of Essex led to his condemnation to death and his imprisonment in the Tower for the last eighteen months of Elizabeth I's reign.

subjects: Biography,  Friends and associates,  History,  Knowledge,  Nobility,  Virginia,  Virginia Company of London

People: Henry Wriothesley Southampton Earl of (1573-1624),  William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Places: Great Britain,  Virginia

Times: Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775