The Monument
Shakespeare's Sonnets

The Story:

• Traditional Commentary on the Sonnets
• Changing the Paradigm
• Historical Context
• The Essex Rebellion Trial
• "Three Winters" - An Example of Historical Context
  

The Players:

• The Poet (Oxford)
• The Fair Youth (Southampton)
• The Dark Lady (Queen Elizabeth)
• The Rival Poet (Shakespeare)

The 1609 Quarto:

• The Structure of the 1609 Quarto
• The 1609 Quarto as the Living Record of the Fair Youth

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• Essays inspired by The Monument

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True Story of Shakespeare's Sonnets

 

THE MONUMENT LIBRARY DONATION PROGRAM

Our goal is to enable students, teachers and all other lovers of the Shakespeare works to have access to THE MONUMENT and its breakthrough perception of the real meaning of the Sonnets.

Therefore we continue our special Library Program:

Receive one signed copy of THE MONUMENT (plus a 90-page Synopsis in booklet form) -- and a SECOND BOOK FREE, TO BE DONATED BY YOU TO A PUBLIC LIBRARY OR HIGH SCHOOL/ COLLEGE/UNIVERSITY LIBRARY OF YOUR CHOICE:

To receive both books plus the Synopsis Booklet, send your check or money order for $60.00 + $8.00 shipping or a total of $68.00 (which is less the retail price of 75 dollars for one book) plus your mailing address, indicating the name of the library to which the second book will be donated, to:

 

  Hank Whittemore  

P.O. Box 549

Nyack, NY 10960

 

For regular orders, you can also use Pay Pal or Credit Card:

"I believe THE MONUMENT will create a new and deeply enriching experience of what 'Shakespeare' wanted us to know about his life; that correctly understanding the Sonnets will generate an exciting new era of appreciation for his magnificent poems, plays and sonnets, especially in our schools, colleges and universities; and finally that the world itself will benefit from this new insight into Shakespeare's painful and heartbreaking cries of love and truth, which are needed more now than ever!"

Thanks and best wishes!
Hank Whittemore  

THE MONUMENT by Hank Whittemore
COMPLETE EDITION, HARDCOVER, 930 PAGES (ISBN: 0-9665564-5-3)
ALL 154 SONNETS SET FORTH WITHIN HISTORICAL CONTEXT    

Now, for the first time, Shakespeare's Sonnets are set forth within the context of contemporary Elizabethan history -- focused primarily on the 1601-1603 time period following the Essex Rebellion, which had been aimed at removing Robert Cecil from his power behind the throne of Queen Elizabeth I of England.

THE MONUMENT demonstrates how the Sonnets contain a dramatic personal and political story leading to the death of Queen Elizabeth I of England and the end of her Tudor Rose dynasty.  Now each 14-line verse springs to life with new clarity, meaning and emotional content. 

This is Shakespeare's own drama -- the truth he wanted the world to know about his life. As Hamlet pleaded with his friend: 

Horatio, I am dead;
Thou liv'st.  Report me and my cause aright
To the unsatisfied...
O good Horatio, what a wounded name!
Things standing thus unknown shall live behind me!
If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart,
Absent thee from felicity awhile,
And in this harsh world draw thy breath in pain
To tell my story...