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Chidiock Tichborne (after 24 August 1562 – 20 September 1586), erroneously [citation needed] referred to as Charles, was an English conspirator and poet.
Chidiock Tichborne was born in Southampton, England, to Roman Catholic parents. Though Catholicism was tolerated in England during Tichborne’s early years, when Queen Elizabeth I was excommunicated by the pope in 1570, she reinstated a series of anti-Catholic measures in retaliation.
24 de ago. de 2017 · A summary of a famous Elizabethan poem. Chidiock Tichborne was only 24 years old when he was executed in the most horrifically brutal way, by being hanged, drawn, and quartered, for his role in the Catholic Babington Plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I in 1586.
Chidiock Tichborne is known to history as one of the principal Catholic conspirators who was involved in the ‘Babington Plot’ to assassinate Queen Elizabeth in 1586, for which he suffered the full rigours of hanging, drawing and quartering.
‘Tichborne’s Elegy’ by Chidiock Tichborne describes the fears and regrets of Tichborne as he faced a certain death the following day for planning regicide. The poem begins with the speaker stating that his youth has frozen over.
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Chideock Tichborne was an Elizabethan recusant who was executed for his part in the Babington plot, but his execution was universally lamented, even by the most aggressively Protestant chroniclers, and watched with horror by the London crowds, usually so thirsty for blood. He wrote an elegy for his young life three days before his execution.
The Works of Chidiock Tichborne. (text) Introduction. Although the much-admired "Lament" of the Elizabethan Catholic poet and martyr Chidiock Tichborne (1558?- 1586) prefigures the poems of Robert Southwell, survives.
