Nicholas Breton

Standard Name: Breton, Nicholas

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Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Isham	EI situates her own writing among the devotional discourse current at the time. Among opening quotations from the Bible and prayer book, she copied a poem which G. Ellis copied in 1605, with only...
Literary responses	Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke	This play provoked Samuel Daniel to respond with The Tragedy of Cleopatra (published in another work in 1594), and influenced Shakespeare 's Antony and Cleopatra. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990. 253n106 Though apparently never acted, Antonius was much admired...
Occupation	Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke	The Countess of Pembroke's patronage was marked by eulogies and dedications (more than thirty) from many writers, including Ben Jonson , Nicholas Breton , and Samuel Daniel . Daniel later told her elder son that...
Textual Production	Isabella Whitney	The British Library holds the world's only surviving copy, C. 39 b. 45; again, one cannot tell for certain whether it is a first edition or a re-issue. Richard Jones seems to have marketeed Nicholas Breton

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