Shakespeare's other son? William Davenant: playwright, Civil War gun-runner and Restoration theatre manager

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner (or quite possibly the natural son of his godfather, William Shakespeare), he wrote poems for and about the Court of Charles I, and, despite losing his nose to mercury treatme...

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1. Verfasser: Pritchard, R. E. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Barnsley, South Yorkshire Pen & Sword Military 2022
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Zusammenfassung:Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner (or quite possibly the natural son of his godfather, William Shakespeare), he wrote poems for and about the Court of Charles I, and, despite losing his nose to mercury treatment for the clap, which other people thought funny, went on to replace Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate and collaborate with Inigo Jones in composing spectacular Court masques, as well as writing many successful plays - a few fashionably blood-thirsty, most showing a real comic gift, humanity and sympathy with 'ordinary life'. This enterprising study introduces modern readers to his wit, poetry, and growing scepticism as to Court and aristocratic values, and his developing feminist sympathies. Here, select excerpts and summaries bring this entertaining writer to a new, wider audience
Beschreibung:vii, 226 Seiten, 16 ungezählte Seiten Tafeln Illustrationen, Porträts 24 cm
ISBN:9781399093491

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