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...
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Eye Charles Davenant (1656–1714), English economist, son of William Davenant Ralph Davenant (fl. 1680), English clergyman William Davenant (c. 1606–1668)...
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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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Duke's Company (section Sir William Davenant)
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Royal Ballet and Opera (section Davenant patent)
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...
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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...
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W. S. Gilbert (redirect from William S. Gilbert)
knighthood for his plays alone – earlier dramatist knights, such as Sir William Davenant and Sir John Vanbrugh, were knighted for political and other services...
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Three Witches (section Insertions by Davenant)
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...
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Specifically, Charles II issued letters patent to Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant, granting them the monopoly right to form two London theatre companies...
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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...
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scene, her role in the play is quite significant. Later playwrights, William Davenant especially, expanded her role in adaptation and in performance. Macduff...
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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...
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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...
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The History of Sir Francis Drake (category Masques by William Davenant)
written by Sir William Davenant and music by Matthew Locke. The masque was most likely first performed in 1659 and produced by Davenant. As with his earlier...
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meter.) Decasyllabic quatrain used by John Dryden in Annus Mirabilis, William Davenant in Gondibert, and Thomas Gray Various hymns employ specific forms,...
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to biography dictionary". 14 January 2021. Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Davenant, Sir William" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 7 (11th ed.). pp. 851–852...
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Thomas Killigrew, Sir William Davenant, William Cartwright, Shackerley Marmion, Jasper Mayne, Peter Hausted, Thomas Randolph, and William Cavendish. The term...
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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...
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Salmacida Spolia (category Masques by William Davenant)
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...
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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...
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establishment of English opera. However, in 1656, the dramatist Sir William Davenant produced The Siege of Rhodes. Since his theatre was not licensed to...
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semi-opera than to the pastoral Zarzuela. Macbeth (1673) libretto by William Davenant after Shakespeare's Macbeth; music by Matthew Locke The Tempest, or...
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reference to the ballad in his play Every Man in His Humour (1598) and William Davenant in The Wits (1634). The oldest version of the tale surviving is that...
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"Richard Cumberland". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 7 September 2022. "Sir William Davenant". Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 7 September 2022. "Sir John Denham"...
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The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru (category Masques by William Davenant)
entertainment or masque or "operatic show", written and produced by Sir William Davenant. The music was composed by Matthew Locke. The work was significant...
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