Catalogue of Prakrit manuscripts in the Bodleian Library

This was also the milieu in which DonneБЂ™s poems were circulating in manuscript, and there seem to be echoes of his work both in King Lear and in Two Noble Kinsmen. There are connections between the personages of ShakespeareБЂ™s world that are now lost to view. CHAPTER 72. I Am (Quoth He) Expected of My friends After the death of his father ShakespeareБЂ™s visits to Stratford, in order to see his widowed mother as well as his wife and family, are likely to have become more frequent. It was a slow process of readjustment, or reorientation, that would finally result in his living for long periods of time in his home town. It represents the return of the native, one of the most characteristic passages of human experience. In his later plays, too, Shakespeare celebrates the reunification of families and the reconciliation of old differences. There is one other additional fact to add to this homecoming, which is to be found in Oxford. The association with Shakespeare and Oxford is not well understood- there are somewhat implausible suggestions that he used the Bodleian Library that was established in 1602-but it is clear enough that he habitually stopped at Oxford on his journeys between London and Stratford ...»