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Robert Southwell: Poet, priest, martyr
Joseph Pearce interviewed by Jan Franczak
Monday, February 22, 2021
Robert Southwell (1561-1595) was a poet, a Jesuit missionary in his own country, a martyr, a saint and Shakespeare’s distant cousin. Which of these roles was the most important and why?