Sir William Davenant

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Standard Name: Davenant, Sir William

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Mariana Starke
The play's central theme was suttee or sati, the practice of burning a widow at her husband's death. The playbill advertised a Procession representing the Ceremonies attending the Sacrifice of an Indian Woman on the...
Literary responses Elizabeth Polwhele
Judith Milhous calls it a throwback to types of play popular before the Civil War, and remarks on its clanking rhyme,précieux sentiment, and witches reminiscent of Davenant 's adapted Macbeth.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Textual Production Frances Eleanor Trollope
FET published a novel about spiritualism, Black Spirits and White.
The title is quoted from an incantatory lyric which is better remembered than its provenance. It occurs in Sir William Davenant 's version of...
Textual Production Lady Hester Pulter
LHP apparently began composing the sixty-seven poems which she eventually had transcribed into an album, together with a separate collection of emblem poems and a prose romance. She gave the poems various titles: the first...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Clemence Dane
It treats the relationship between Shakespeare and Sir William Davenant .
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Timeline

29 October 1656
Sir William Davenant published his operatic entertainment The Siege of Rhodes.
25 July 1658
Sir William Davenant 's masqueThe Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru, Exprest by instrumentall and vocall musick, and by the art of perspective in scenes, etc., was published; it had been performed the same year.
21 August 1660
Charles II issued patents to Sir William Davenant and Thomas Killigrew to open separate theatre companies in London.
8 November 1660
Thomas Killigrew left Davenant and opened his own theatre company, the King's , at Gibbons' Tennis Court, Vere Street.
Late June 1661
Sir William Davenant 's theatre company, the Duke's , opened at a new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields, after some months at the Salisbury Court theatre.
29-30 August 1663
The Lord Chamberlain ordered the arrest of all actors performing without affiliation with the two patent houses (the King's Company , managed by Thomas Killigrew , and the Duke's Company , managed by Sir William Davenant ).
After 7 April 1668
On the death of Sir William Davenant , his widow took over the running of Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre; she managed it until the 1670s, and therefore presided over the debut of Aphra Behn .
13 April 1668
Six days after the death of Sir William Davenant , the Poet Laureate, John Dryden was appointed to fill the position.
7 November 1670
The joint operatic adaptation of Shakespeare 's The Tempest by John Dryden and the late Sir William Davenant was first staged.