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4 giorni fa · Sir William Davenant's Duke's Company had the rights to perform The Tempest. In 1667 Davenant and John Dryden made heavy cuts and adapted it as The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island.
3 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.
5 giorni fa · On 21 August 1660 a royal grant under the privy signet authorized Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant to build or hire two playhouses in London and to maintain two companies of actors to perform in them.
2 giorni fa · Ben Jonson’s oft-quoted sly ‘Induction’ to Bartholomew Fair places the performing monkey amongst sword-and-buckler men, tooth-drawers and hobby-horses, a lead followed by that theatrical entrepreneur par excellence Sir William Davenant, who mocked such acts in his masque Britannia Triumphans (1638).
2 giorni fa · His daughter Elizabeth was taken under the protection of Lady Davenant, a widow lady, by whom she was recommended to Sir William Davenant, the patentee of the theatre in Lincoln's-inn-fields: her first efforts were unsuccessful; but afterwards, by the instructions of the celebrated Earl of Rochester, she became the most eminent ...
2 giorni fa · William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard").
17 ore fa · Sir William Davenant (1606–1668), poet and playwright. Colin Dexter (1930–2017), wrote and set his Inspector Morse detective novels in Oxford. John Donaldson (c. 1921 –1989), a poet resident in Oxford in later life. Siobhan Dowd (1960–2007), Oxford resident, undergraduate at Lady Margaret Hall.
