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5 giorni fa · In March 1660 Sir William Davenant, the dramatist and poet laureate, who still had in his possession a patent for a playhouse granted by Charles I, had taken a lease of Lisle's Tennis Court in Portugal Street near Lincoln's Inn Fields, for conversion into a theatre.
3 giorni fa · Sir William Davenant, in his playful poem of "The Long Vacation in London," describes the attorneys shooting against the proctors, and thus sketches the citizen archer of those days— "Each with solemn oath agree
1 giorno fa · Thomas Killegrew, groom of the king's bedchamber and Sir William Davenant, gentlemen of the king's privy chamber. SP 29/49 f. 95 (1662) Sir Thomas Killegrew and Sir William Davenants peticion. To the Kings most excellent majestie. The humble peticion of Thomas Killegrew one of your majesties
3 giorni fa · Chapter three introduces two commonplace books in early modern England: one an anonymous notebook held within the Folger Shakespeare Library collection; and the second the reading notes of Sir William Drake, a member of the Long Parliament.
4 giorni fa · Another theory suggests that the tribute 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, but essayist Leigh Hunt contends that Davenant's wording represented no more than Young's coinage, cheaply re-used.
4 giorni fa · By systematically going through the surviving archives county by county, REED editors have uncovered a wealth of new documentary records, demonstrating that early dramatic activity outside of London was much more extensive than previously believed.
4 giorni fa · Sir William Davenant, who was also Poet Laureate, was knighted after taking office. He took his teddy bear with him to Oxford University where he met Evelyn Waugh who created Sebastian Flyte's teddy, Aloysius, in the novel "Brideshead Revisited" as a result.
