{"id":6939,"date":"2019-09-02T22:19:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T21:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/?p=6939"},"modified":"2019-09-02T22:19:20","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T21:19:20","slug":"shakespeare-in-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/2019\/09\/shakespeare-in-mourning\/","title":{"rendered":"Shakespeare in Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Continuing our special series of <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/literaryfestival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Literary Footprints 2019<\/a> posts, Dave Charnick previews some of the London Shakespeare connections linked to his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/echoes-of-shakespeare-tickets-68733617099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Echoes of Shakespeare<\/em><\/a> walk which features as part of the festival on 24th October. Dave is running no fewer than three different Shakespeare walks during our festival, full booking details are on <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/walks\/?guide=David+Charnick\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his walks page<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-5663\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg 768w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/Footprints-of-London-LitFest-wordcloud.jpg 1078w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Grief fills the room up of my absent child,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6943\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-1-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-1.jpg 150w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-1.jpg 80w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-1.jpg 118w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-1.jpg 239w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-1.jpg 45w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>These lines are taken from William Shakespeare\u2019s play <em>The Life and Death of King John<\/em> (Act Three, Scene Four). They are the words of a mother whose son has been taken away. She is Lady Constance, wife of the dead Geoffrey, Duke of Brittany, and sister-in-law to Geoffrey\u2019s younger brother, the English King John. Her son is Prince Arthur, Duke Geoffrey\u2019s only son.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Arthur has been taken from France back to England by his uncle John; the boy having arguably a stronger claim on the English throne, his safety in John\u2019s hands in less than assured! This may explain the strength of Lady Constance\u2019s grief. Her words are those of a parent whose child is not coming back.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6944\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-2.jpg 150w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-2.jpg 80w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-2.jpg 118w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-2.jpg 239w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-2.jpg 45w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-2.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>There is no certain date for the writing of King John, but it is listed with eleven others by churchman and author Francis Meres in his 1598 literary survey <em>Palladis Tamia<\/em>. Meres gives the twelve plays as examples of how Shakespeare is \u2018most excellent\u2019 as a writer of English comedy and tragedy. Current thinking is that King John was written in 1596, the year that Shakespeare\u2019s only son Hamnet died at the age of eleven.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The parish register of Holy Trinity, Stratford upon Avon, records Hamnet\u2019s burial on 11 <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6945 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-3-300x41.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"41\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-3.jpg 1167w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>August 1596. It is an irresistible thought that the loss of Shakespeare\u2019s only son gave form to Constance\u2019s words, a perfect expression of parental loss. But eleven years later, another Shakespeare felt that same loss.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Edmund Shakespeare, born in 1580 when his eldest brother William was sixteen, came to London around 1600 and became an actor. He <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6946\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-4-300x45.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"45\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-4.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-4.jpg 861w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>had just one child, a son called Edward. Shortly before Edmund\u2019s own death in December 1607, at the age of twenty-seven, Edmund laid his son Edward to rest. The parish register of St Giles without Cripplegate records the burial on 12 August 1607 of the \u2018base born\u2019 Edward. The child\u2019s age is not recorded, but he would have been approximately six years old.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-6947\" src=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-5-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-5.jpg 150w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-5.jpg 80w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-5.jpg 118w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-5.jpg 239w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-5.jpg 45w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-5.jpg 300w, https:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/live\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/Shakespeare-Mourning-5.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Edmund would have been eighteen in 1598 when <em>Palladis Tamia<\/em> appeared. It is unlikely he would have played in King John. However, whether or not he knew Constance\u2019s speech, it is tempting to imagine his brother\u2019s words coming to Edmund\u2019s mind when he laid his dead son in the earth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">The grieving Constance makes a telling comment. She points out how futile it is to try and offer consolation if you have not experienced such loss yourself. Surely this touch of authenticity hints that the lament is based on more than Shakespeare\u2019s imagination?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>Fare you well: had you such a loss as I,<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><em>I could give better comfort than you do.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Follow the link for the full list of our <a href=\"http:\/\/footprintsoflondon.com\/literaryfestival\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Literary Footprints 2019 walks<\/a> and if you&#8217;re feeling particularly curious (and energetic!) then why not take advantage of our great value <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.co.uk\/e\/literary-footprints-festival-season-ticket-tickets-68485059657\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">season ticket<\/a> which for only \u00a349 allows you one free place on every Literary Footprints walk throughout October!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Picture credits<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Claire Bloom as Lady Constance (BBC Shakespeare) &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">http:\/\/bbcshakespeare.blogspot.com<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Extracts taken from Palladis Tamia and the parish registers of Holy Trinity and St Giles Churches &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">https:\/\/shakespearedocumented.folger.edu\/exhibition<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">Extract taken from the First Folio edition of The Life and Death of King John &#8211; <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">https:\/\/firstfolio.bodleian.ox.ac.uk\/<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuing our special series of Literary Footprints 2019 posts, Dave Charnick previews some of the London Shakespeare connections linked to his Echoes of Shakespeare walk which features as part of the festival on 24th October. 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