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    Simon Forman (31 December 1552 – 5 or 12 September 1611) was an Elizabethan astrologer, occultist and herbalist active in London during the reigns of Queen...
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  • of Exeter. She wrote several mysteries based on the casebooks of Dr Simon Forman, an Elizabethan doctor and astrologer. Through the columns of The Guardian's...
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    Christmas holidays. There is a performance mentioned in the Book of Plays of Simon Forman; even if it is genuine (not all commentators think it is), the Book of...
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  • Shakespeare's Sonnets—the Problem Solved, based upon his study of astrologer Simon Forman's journal entries describing his meetings with Emilia Lanier. It was later...
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  • Look up Forman or forman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Forman may refer to: Forman, North Dakota, city in Sargent County, North Dakota, United States...
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    particular for the historical portrayal it leaves of men like John Dee, Simon Forman, John Booker, Edward Kelley, including a whimsical first meeting of John...
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    The manuscript in the British Library passed through several hands: Simon Forman, Richard Napier, Elias Ashmole and William Lilly. According to the prologue...
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    1611 at the Globe, recorded by Simon Forman. However, there is some doubt amongst scholars as to the veracity of Forman's account. Initially, the document...
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    'Dark Lady': from a close reading of the sonnets and the diaries of Simon Forman, he asserted that she must have been Emilia Lanier, whose poems he would...
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  • hypnagogia can be found in the writings of Aristotle, Iamblichus, Cardano, Simon Forman, and Swedenborg. Romanticism brought a renewed interest in the subjective...
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    and mystic Robert Fludd practised astrology, as did the quack doctor Simon Forman. In Elizabethan England, "The usual feeling about astrology ... [was]...
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  • centres around the historical 16th-century physician and astrologer Simon Forman and the characters he encounters, who demand diagnoses, treatments, and...
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    was recorded by Simon Forman, who saw a performance at the Globe on 20 April 1610. Scholars have noted discrepancies between Forman's account and the...
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    protagonist's father. The first recorded production of Cymbeline, as noted by Simon Forman, was in April 1611. It was first published in the First Folio in 1623...
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  • Dark Lady. His play Dark Meaning Mouse features Emilia, Shakespeare and Simon Forman. Haygarth died from the complications of Alzheimer's disease on 10 March...
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    the similar epithet "Leonatus"). An early description of Cymbeline by Simon Forman in 1611 consistently spells Imogen's name as "Innogen", leading scholars...
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    Mary Mountjoy,1 born circa 1568, who was a client of the astrologer Simon Forman in 1597 (for example, after losing a ring). The Mountjoys and Shakespeare...
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  • Casebooks project to digitise the medical records of the astrologers Simon Forman and Richard Napier, one of the largest sets of early modern medical records...
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  • London. He is known for his interest in alchemy and friendship with Simon Forman. His wife was the convicted murderer Anne Turner. Born either in Derbyshire...
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  • but no marriage. Arthur Wilson claimed that she bought powders from Simon Forman to try to bring him to wed her. In 1624, Mainwaring was elected member...
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    illegitimate child of the disreputable London apothecary and astrologer named Simon Forman. Also considered to be a "beautiful" woman, she married a physician,...
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  • politician (d. 1568) 1550 – Henry I, Duke of Guise (d. 1588) 1552 – Simon Forman, English occultist and astrologer (d. 1611) 1572 – Emperor Go-Yōzei of...
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    older. The earliest recorded performance of the play was recorded by Simon Forman, the Elizabethan "figure caster" or astrologer, who noted in his journal...
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  • of the Crusader 2003 1588 Astrologaster 2019 1590s The game follows Simon Forman in Elizabethan England. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 2019 1600 The game...
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    educationalist, diplomat and bishop of Chartres, born at Salisbury Simon Forman (1552 in Quidhampton, Fugglestone St Peter – 1611), astrologer, occultist...
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    Nigidius Figulus Roy C. Firebrace Lucius Taruntius Firmanus Robert Fludd Simon Forman Paolo Fox Eric Francis David Frawley John Gadbury Jacques Gaffarel Galileo...
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    Holinshed's account and in the description of a contemporary play-goer Simon Forman. The Three Witches first appear in Act 1, Scene 1, where they agree to...
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    Arbella, but the warrant for the couple's arrest is dated 3 June 1611 and Simon Forman recorded seeing a production of that play in April 1611. The black hat...
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  • Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Cerasano, S. P. "Philip Henslowe, Simon Forman, and the Theatrical Community of the 1590s." Shakespeare Quarterly 44...
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    the city were Patrons of the school. The attendance at the school of Simon Forman means that it was in operation by 1561. The school's early home was in...
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