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Hace 4 días · Stuart period; Restoration era. 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 was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both ...
Hace 5 días · 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. (fn. 9) He had then departed to France, presumably to persuade the ...
Hace 4 días · 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. (fn. 17) Three months later, in November 1660, Killigrew established his troupe, to be known as the King's Company, at ...
Hace 4 días · Sir William Davenant 's Duke's Company had the rights to perform The Tempest. [85] In 1667 Davenant and John Dryden made heavy cuts and adapted it as The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island.
Hace 1 día · 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—
Hace 4 días · In his discussion of Van Dyck’s wider Caroline portraits, Sharpe suggests that the artist may have intended to downplay political tensions in a similar manner as William Davenant’s masque, Salmacida Spoila.
Hace 5 días · Early Modern London Theatres ( EMLoT) is REED's latest online project, developed in collaboration with the Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London and the Department of English at the University of Southampton. It is a valuable project, but very different from the Patrons and Performances Web Site in several ways.
