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The name of the Jesuit Robert Southwell has now and then been linked with Shakespeare's, but vaguely and tentatively. The name of Henry Wriothesley, 3rd earl of Southampton, has perennially been linked with Shakespeare's, sometimes not vaguely and tentatively enough. This book offers distinct and credible reasons for believing in a relationship among the three men, who were kinsmen as their contemporaries understood the term.Klause uncovers signs of a secret but continued conversation among them about the religious politics of their time, reading the evidence for it, with plausible speculation, out of the literary and biographical remains of the conversants, and founding his argument securely on the discovery that Shakespeare's writing is influenced in a major way by Southwell's. The Jesuit's influence is pervasive, but most especially when the poet/playwright takes up in his own work issues of special concern to the earl in a crucial decade (1593-1604), after Southwell's death, through the religious and political crises faced by the young nobleman during that time.

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