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Charles Sedley (marzo de 1639 - 20 de agosto de 1701) fue un dramaturgo inglés, hijo de Sir John Sedley de Aylesford en Kent. Estudió en Wadham College de Oxford , pero no se graduó. Sedley es famoso como mecenas literario en la comedia de la Restauración , y fue el Lisideius del Essay of Dramatic Poesy ( Dryden ).
Charles Sedley inherited the title (5th baronet) in 1656 when his brother William died. By his first wife Lady Katherine Savage, daughter of John, 2nd Earl Rivers he had only one legitimate child, Catherine, Countess of Dorchester, mistress of James II. The couple lived in Great Queen Street. After his first wife had been sent to a convent in ...
8 de abr. de 2024 · Sir Charles Sedley, 4th Baronet (born March 1639, Aylesford, Kent, Eng.—died Aug. 20, 1701, Hampstead, London) was an English Restoration poet, dramatist, wit, and courtier. Sedley attended the University of Oxford but left without taking a degree.
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22 de ago. de 2018 · Along with Charles Sackville, 6th Earl of Dorset and 1st Earl of Middlesex (Lord Buckhurst), and Sir Thomas Ogle [some accounts say the third member of the group was John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester], Sedley spent a lovely afternoon drinking heavily in a tavern near Covent Garden on Bow Street.
The Baronetcy Sedley of Southfleet in the County of Kent, was created in the Baronetage of England on 10 July 1702 for Charles Sedley, the grandson of the fifth Baronet of Aylesford by an illegitimate son Charles. The second Baronet sat as Member of Parliament for Nottingham. The title became extinct on his death in 1778.
Introduction. Sir Charles Sedley — reputedly one of the wittiest (as well as one of the most scandalous) of the Restoration courtiers — has left a body of plays, poems and other works, none of which, however, is known to survive in his own hand. Unlike his equally notorious crony the Earl of Rochester, there is no evidence of an especially ...
7 de ene. de 2024 · Search for: 'Charles Sedley' in Oxford Reference ». (?1639–1701),dramatist and poet, friend of Rochester and Dryden, was famous for his wit and urbanity and notorious for his profligate escapades. His tragedy Antony and Cleopatra (1677) was followed by two comedies, Bellamira (1687) and The Mulberry Garden (1668), which was based partly on ...
