Sir Robert Howard

Standard Name: Howard, Sir Robert

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships John Dryden
JD married Lady Elizabeth Howard , the sister of his friend and patron Sir Robert Howard .
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Textual Production Michelene Wandor
MW has adapted two German plays for English productions: Heinrich von Kleist 's Penthesilea, about the Amazons (1977), and Ernst Toller 's The Blind Goddess (1981). She also adapted Githa Sowerby 's Rutherford and...

Timeline

16 January 1664
The Indian Queen, the first heroic tragedy on the English stage, by John Dryden and Sir Robert Howard , opened in London.