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King John And Matilda
''King John and Matilda'' is a Caroline era stage play, a historical tragedy written by Robert Davenport. It was initially published in 1655; the cast list included in the first edition provides valuable information on some of the actors of English Renaissance theatre. Performance and publication No certain information survives on the play's date of authorship or earliest production. Scholars generally date the play to c. 1628–29, though dates as early as 1624 and as late as 1634 have been proposed. The title page of the first edition states that the play was acted by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre; the actors in the cast list belonged to that company. The troupe staged a revival of Davenport's play c. 1638–39, perhaps a decade after its initial appearance. The 1655 quarto was published by actor-turned-stationer Andrew Pennycuicke. The volume includes an epistle addressed "To the knowning Reader" that is signed with the initials "R. D." This has been t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literature In English
English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines English literature more narrowly as, "the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are treated separately under American literature, Australian literature, Canadian literature, and New Zealand literature." However, despite this, it includes literature from the Republic of Ireland, "Anglo-American modernism", and discusses post-colonial literature. ; See also full articles on American literature and other literatures in the English language. The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Civil War
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of civil wars and political machinations between Parliamentarians (" Roundheads") and Royalists led by Charles I ("Cavaliers"), mainly over the manner of England's governance and issues of religious freedom. It was part of the wider Wars of the Three Kingdoms. The first (1642–1646) and second (1648–1649) wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649–1651) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The wars also involved the Scottish Covenanters and Irish Confederates. The war ended with Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651. Unlike other civil wars in England, which were mainly fought over who should rule, these conflicts were also concerned with how the three Kingdoms of England, Scotland and Ireland should be governed. The outcome was threefold: the trial of and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boy Player
Boy player refers to children who performed in Medieval and English Renaissance playing companies. Some boy players worked for the adult companies and performed the female roles as women did not perform on the English stage in this period. Others worked for children's companies in which all roles, not just the female ones, were played by boys. Children's companies In the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods, troupes appeared that were composed entirely of boy players. They are famously mentioned in Shakespeare's ''Hamlet'', in which a group of travelling actors has left the city due to rivalry with a troupe of "little eyases" (II, ii, 339); the term "eyas" means an unfledged hawk. The children's companies grew out of the choirs of boy singers that had been connected with cathedrals and similar institutions since the Middle Ages. (Similar boy choirs exist to this day.) Thus the choir attached to St. Paul's Cathedral in London since the 12th century was in the 16th centur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Allen (actor)
William Allen (died 1647) was a prominent English actor in the Caroline era. He belonged to both of the most important theatre companies of his generation, Queen Henrietta's Men and the King's Men. Allen was a member of the Queen Henrietta's company through the main phase of its existence, from 1625 to 1636. Six cast lists for five plays survive for the company; Allen is one of only two men (the other being Michael Bowyer) who is included in all six lists. Allen played major roles: * Captain Landby in Shirley's '' The Wedding'' * Pandolph in Davenport's ''King John and Matilda'' * Grimaldi the Renegado in Massinger's ''The Renegado'' * Hannibal in Nabbes's ''Hannibal and Scipio'' * Mullisheg in Heywood's ''The Fair Maid of the West'' (both parts). The Queen Henrietta's company was disrupted and fractured by the long theatre closure from May 1636 to October 1637, due to a severe outbreak of bubonic plague. Allen was one of several members of the troupe who disappear from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hugh Clark (actor)
Hugh Clark (died 1653) was a prominent English actor of the Caroline era. He worked in both of the main theatre companies of his time, Queen Henrietta's Men and the King's Men. Clark was with Queen Henrietta's Men during the first and most significant phase of their existence, from 1625 to 1636. Like some other actors of English Renaissance theatre, Clark began as a boy player filling female roles. He played Gratiana in Shirley's '' The Wedding'' in 1626, and Bess Bridges in both parts of Heywood's ''The Fair Maid of the West'' in 1630–31. Not long after that time, though, Clark switched to adult male roles. He played Syphax and Nuntius in Nabbes's ''Hannibal and Scipio'' ( 1635), and Hubert in Davenport's ''King John and Matilda''. The Queen Henrietta's company was disrupted and fractured by the bubonic plague epidemic of 1636–37. Clark, like some other members of the troupe, disappears from the available records in 1637 and 1638; he may have been one of severa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Sumner (17th-century Actor)
John Sumner (died May 1649) was an English theatre actor during the Caroline era (1625–1642). Career He was a long-time member of the Queen Henrietta's Men, one of the prime playing companies or acting troupes of the time and named for Henrietta Maria of France, the queen consort of England, Scotland and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I. The existing evidence suggests that Sumner played with the company throughout its existence, from 1625 to 1642. Sumner was cast in all five of the company's productions for which casting information exists. He played these roles: * Mustapha in Philip Massinger's ''The Renegado'' * Marwood in James Shirley's '' The Wedding'' * Himulco in Thomas Nabbes's ''Hannibal and Scipio'' * Young Bruce in Robert Davenport's ''King John and Matilda'' * the Duke of Florence in Thomas Heywood's ''The Fair Maid of the West, Part 2''. He probably also played in the company's production of John Ford's ''Love's Sacrifice'' as well. Ford, John; edited ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Turner (actor)
Anthony Turner ( fl. 1622 – 1659) was a noted English actor in the Caroline era. For most of his career he worked with Queen Henrietta's Men, one of the leading theatre companies of the time. Nothing is known of Turner's early life or the start of his career; by 1622 he was already a leading player with the Lady Elizabeth's Men. In 1625, Christopher Beeston formed a new company under the patronage of the new queen, Henrietta Maria; some members of the Lady Elizabeth's troupe, including Turner, joined the organization. Turner was a consistent presence in the known casts of the Queen Henrietta's company; he played — * Justice Landby in Shirley's '' The Wedding'' * Old Lord Bruce in Davenport's ''King John and Matilda'' * Bashaw Alcade in Part 2 of Heywood's ''The Fair Maid of the West'' * Crates and two other minor parts in Nabbes's ''Hannibal and Scipio''. Turner tended to play older men, like Justice Landby and Old Lord Bruce; yet he also took the role of a kitc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Perkins (17th-century Actor)
Richard Perkins (c. 1579/c. 1585–1650) was a prominent early seventeenth-century actor, most famous for his performance in the role of Barabas in Christopher Marlowe's ''The Jew of Malta''. At the peak of his career in the 1630s, many contemporaries judged Perkins to be the premier tragedian of his generation. Early life Nothing is known about the early life of Perkins, and the year of his birth has been estimated at 1579 or 1585. His professional career had begun by 1602, when he was a member of Worcester's Men; he remained with that company throughout its next incarnation as Queen Anne's Men, 1603–1619. With the death of Anne of Denmark in 1619, the troupe lost its name and patron, but continued in its theatre, and was known as the Red Bull company or the Revels company. After a relatively brief stint with the King's Men, 1623–1625, Perkins became a founding member of the new Queen Henrietta's Men in 1625. Perkins remained with that company until the theatres we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Bowyer
Michael Bowyer (1599–1645) was an actor in English Renaissance theatre in the Jacobean era, Jacobean and Caroline era, Caroline eras. He spent most of his maturity with Queen Henrietta's Men, but finished his career with the King's Men (playing company), King's Men. With the former company, he was one of "those of principal note," according to James Wright's ''Historia Histrionica'' (1699 in literature, 1699), one of the troupe's "eminent actors." Bowyer, the son of a John Bowyer, was christened on 20 September 1599 in Kidderminster, Worcestershire. He played a series of important roles through his career, including: * Beaufort in James Shirley's ''The Wedding (1629 play), The Wedding''; * King John in Robert Davenport (dramatist), Robert Davenport's ''King John and Matilda''; * Vitelli in Philip Massinger's ''The Renegado''; * Mr. Spencer in Thomas Heywood's ''The Fair Maid of the West''; * Scipio in Thomas Nabbes's ''Hannibal and Scipio''. Robert Davenport dedicated his poem ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wedding (1629 Play)
''The Wedding'' is a Caroline era stage play, a comedy written by James Shirley. Published in 1629, it was the first of Shirley's plays to appear in print. An early comedy of manners, it is set in the fashionable world of genteel London society in Shirley's day. The play is thought to date from c. 1626. It was published in quarto in 1629, printed by Nicholas Okes for the bookseller John Grove. This first edition contained commendatory verses, including one by John Ford; the play was dedicated to William Gowre, Esq., a personal friend of the author. A second quarto was published in 1632; the title page of Q2 states that the play was "lately acted" by Queen Henrietta's Men at the Cockpit Theatre (also called the Phoenix) in Drury Lane. ''The Wedding'' was included among eight of Shirley's plays that were published in one volume in 1640. Another individual edition appeared in 1660, at the start of the Restoration era, published by William Leake. The scholar and critic Alfred Harbage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Renegado
''The Renegado, or The Gentleman of Venice'' is a late Literature in English#Jacobean literature, Jacobean stage play, a tragicomedy written by Philip Massinger and first published in 1630 in literature, 1630. The play has attracted critical attention for its treatment of cultural conflict between Christian Europe and Muslim North Africa. Massinger based the plot of his play on a novel by Miguel de Cervantes titled ''Los Baños de Argel,'' which had been printed in 1615 in literature, 1615. Performance and publication ''The Renegado'' was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert (Master of the Revels), Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 17 April 1624 in literature, 1624. It was acted at the Cockpit Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men; when that troupe was merged or re-organized into Queen Henrietta's Men in the following year, 1625 in literature, 1625, the play remained in their repertory. The 1630 book size, quarto was printed by Augustine Matthews for the booksell ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
