• John Leslie Hotson (16 August 1897 – 16 November 1992) was a scholar of Elizabethan literary puzzles. He was born at Delhi, Ontario, on 16 August 1897...
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  • Hotson is an English and Scottish surname. Notable people with the surname include: Howard Hotson, British historian J Leslie Hotson (1897–1992), Shakespearean...
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    The most obvious explanation is that it was written very quickly. Leslie Hotson wrote that "it is certain that the play bears the earmarks of hasty...
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    official account, which came to light only in 1925, when the scholar Leslie Hotson discovered the coroner's report of the inquest on Marlowe's death, held...
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    title – Benedick and Beatrice – in several book sellers' catalogues. Leslie Hotson speculated that Love's Labour's Won was the former title of Troilus...
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    personality, nothing like Shallow" as described in Henry IV, Part 2. Leslie Hotson argues that the satire in Merry Wives is not directed at Lucy, but at...
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    fool for money, while others have to pay for the same privilege." – Leslie Hotson in Shakespeare's Motley Armin was one of three children born to John...
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    Island Adam Erne (born 1995), NHL player for the Detroit Red Wings Leslie Hotson (1897-1992), literary scholar, died in North Branford Robert Ward (died...
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    colloquial and up to date." Textual evidence and topical allusions led John Leslie Hotson to argue the play was specifically commissioned for a performance on...
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    Oliver (ed.), The Merry Wives of Windsor (London: Arden, 1972), lv and Leslie Hotson, Shakespeare versus Shallow (London: Kessinger, 1931/2003), 111–122...
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    player Earl Frederick Crabb (1899–1986), World War I flying ace John Leslie Hotson (1897–1992), scholar of Elizabethan literary puzzles John A. Schweitzer...
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    roofed over in the early 1620s, but this idea was largely refuted by Leslie Hotson and G. E. Bentley. The Red Bull was most likely similar to the other...
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    Nicholas Hilliard dated 1588. This was identified as Shakespeare by Leslie Hotson in his book Shakespeare by Hilliard (1977). Sceptical scholars believe...
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    assumed that the fight took place in a Deptford tavern. The scholar Leslie Hotson discovered in 1925 the coroner's report on Marlowe's death in the Public...
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  • 84, English backstroke and freestyle swimmer and Olympic medalist. Leslie Hotson, 95, Canadian literary historian and critic. Max Huber, 73, Swiss graphic...
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    Letters (London, 1966), pp. 29–30. The First Night of Twelfth Night by Leslie Hotson, p. 15. 1954: HMC 3rd Report: Duke of Northumberland (London, 1872)...
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  • modern times by Leslie Hotson. H. Porter, The two angry women of Abington, ed. W. W. Greg (1913) Chisholm 1911, p. 115. Hotson, Leslie M., The Adventure...
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    Oliver (ed.). The Merry Wives of Windsor (London: Arden, 1972), lv and Leslie Hotson, Shakespeare versus Shallow (London: Kessinger, 2003), 111–122. White...
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  • Chinese into English is published by Charles Henry Brewitt-Taylor. Leslie Hotson publishes the first account from contemporary records of the murder...
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    that in allusion to his name bore three louses rampant for his Arms". Leslie Hotson in his 1931 book Shakespeare versus Shallow argues that Shallow is a...
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  • "in her Majesty's service all the aforesaid time." In 1925, however, Leslie Hotson discovered details of the inquest on the death of Christopher Marlowe...
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    reject Hotson's allegory theory, but believe that Chaucer's long version of the fable is written on many different levels of meaning. Leslie Hotson, Colfox...
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  • Coroner of the Queen's Household two days later, were discovered by Leslie Hotson in 1925. According to this report, based upon accounts from the three...
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  • that Leslie Hotson said that he had found a William Danby in Woolwich (in Kent, four or five miles east of Deptford) at that time, and, although Hotson gave...
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  • Wickham, Glynne (1992-12-03). "Obituary: Leslie Hotson". The Independent. Retrieved 2022-10-16. "J. Leslie Hotson". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation...
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  • to her is at http://www2.prestel.co.uk/rey/baines3.htm Discovered by Leslie Hotson in 1925, his translation of the inquisition is at http://www2.prestel...
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    Hotson, Howard & Maria Rosa Antognazza (eds.), Alsted and Leibniz: on God, the Magistrate, and the Millennium, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 1999. Hotson,...
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    full details of Marlowe's death in 1593 were only finally uncovered by Leslie Hotson in 1925. Palladis Tamia translates from the Greek literally as "Pallas'...
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  • legal Latin in 1593 as Coronatore hospicij dicte domine Regine, which Leslie Hotson translated as "Coroner of the household of our said lady the Queen"...
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  • Dorothy Soer. William Gardiner was a corrupt Surrey justice of the peace. Leslie Hotson describes Gardiner's life as a tissue of "greed, usury, fraud, cruelty...
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