Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright. Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant...

masques produced for and by the court of Charles I.[citation needed] In William Davenant's Salmacida Spolia (1640), the last of the court masques before the...

During the English Restoration, it was revived and heavily revised by William Davenant. David Garrick's 18th-century version also modified several scenes...

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by King Charles II at the start of the Restoration era, 1660. Sir William Davenant was manager of the company under the patronage of Prince James, Duke...

of Rutland. That on Aldersgate Street was leased by playwright Sir William Davenant, who converted a room of it into a private theatre in the 1650s. That...

used for a somewhat similar character in The Cruel Brother (1630) by William Davenant. A character with the same name also appears in The Ill-Advised Curiosity...

scene, her role in the play is quite significant. Later playwrights, William Davenant especially, expanded her role in adaptation and in performance. Macduff...

came from William Davenant, Jonson's successor as Poet Laureate (and card-playing companion of Young), as the same phrase appears on Davenant's nearby gravestone...

opening the first patent theatre at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane; Sir William Davenant received the other, establishing the Duke of York's theatre company...

establishment of English opera. However, in 1656, the dramatist Sir William Davenant produced The Siege of Rhodes. Since his theatre was not licensed to...

Specifically, Charles II issued letters patent to Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant, granting them the monopoly right to form two London theatre companies...

the temptation, while Banquo rejects it. In a version of Macbeth by William Davenant (1606–1668) a scene was added in which the witches tell Macduff and...

Gondibert is an epic poem by William Davenant. In it he attempts to combine the five-act structure of English Renaissance drama with the Homeric and Virgilian...

meter.) Decasyllabic quatrain used by John Dryden in Annus Mirabilis, William Davenant in Gondibert, and Thomas Gray Various hymns employ specific forms,...

to biography dictionary". 14 January 2021. Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Davenant, Sir William" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). pp. 851–852...

his title of Grand Vizier.[additional citation(s) needed] In 1656, William Davenant wrote the first English opera, The Siege of Rhodes, based on the incident...

John Davies' poem Nosce Teipsum in 1599. The style was revived by William Davenant in his poem Gondibert, which was published in 1651 and influenced Dryden's...

Thomas Killigrew, Sir William Davenant, William Cartwright, Shackerley Marmion, Jasper Mayne, Peter Hausted, Thomas Randolph, and William Cavendish. The term...

King himself and two men who dedicated themselves to theatre. Sir William Davenant had received a patent from Charles the I in 1639 when he was in power...

Thomas Swift married a daughter of poet and playwright Sir William Davenant, a godson of William Shakespeare. Swift's benefactor and uncle Godwin Swift took...

Ives and Great Bedwyn. He was born in London as the eldest son of Sir William Davenant, the poet. He was educated at Cheam grammar school and Balliol College...

lies in the letters patent awarded by Charles II to Sir William Davenant in 1662, allowing Davenant to operate one of only two patent theatre companies (The...

Edwards, Spenser and Samuel Daniel, as "volunteer Laureates." Sir William Davenant succeeded Jonson in 1638, and the title of poet laureate was conferred...

semi-opera than to the pastoral Zarzuela. Macbeth (1673) libretto by William Davenant after Shakespeare's Macbeth; music by Matthew Locke The Tempest, or...

Court before the outbreak of the English Civil War. Written by Sir William Davenant, with costumes, sets, and stage effects designed by Inigo Jones and...

recalls in his Brief Lives that William Davenant, his godson, was "contented" to be believed Shakespeare's actual son. Davenant's mother was the wife of a vintner...

"Richard Cumberland". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 7 September 2022. "Sir William Davenant". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 7 September 2022. "Sir John Denham"...

Against Lovers was a dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare, arranged by Sir William Davenant and staged by the Duke's Company in 1662. It was the first of the many...

knighthood for his plays alone – earlier dramatist knights, such as Sir William Davenant and Sir John Vanbrugh, were knighted for political and other services...