Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Nicholas Breton
Standard Name: Breton, Nicholas
Connections
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Intertextuality and Influence | Elizabeth Isham | |
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. Hannay, Margaret P. Philip’s Phoenix: Mary Sidney, Countess of Pembroke. Oxford University Press, 1990. 253n106 |
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. |
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