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Walter Burre
Walter Burre ( fl. 1597 – 1622) was a London bookseller and publisher of the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras, best remembered for publishing several key texts in English Renaissance drama. Burre was made a "freeman" of the Stationers Company — meaning that he became a full-fledged member of the London guild of booksellers — in 1596. From 1597 to 1622 he did business in a sequence of three London shops; the most important was at the sign of the Crane in St Paul's Churchyard (1604 and after). Drama and Literature In the span of a decade, Burre published the first editions of four plays by Ben Jonson: * ''Every Man in His Humour,'' 1601 * ''Cynthia's Revels,'' 1601 * ''The Alchemist,'' 1610 * '' Catiline: His Conspiracy,'' 1611. Beyond the confines of the Jonson canon, Burre issued a number of other first quartos of Elizabethan and Jacobean plays — Thomas Nashe's ''Summer's Last Will and Testament'' (1600), Thomas Middleton's ''A Mad World, My Masters'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Floruit
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicating the time when someone flourished. Etymology and use la, flōruit is the third-person singular perfect active indicative of the Latin verb ', ' "to bloom, flower, or flourish", from the noun ', ', "flower". Broadly, the term is employed in reference to the peak of activity for a person or movement. More specifically, it often is used in genealogy and historical writing when a person's birth or death dates are unknown, but some other evidence exists that indicates when they were alive. For example, if there are wills attested by John Jones in 1204, and 1229, and a record of his marriage in 1197, a record concerning him might be written as "John Jones (fl. 1197–1229)". The term is often used in art history when dating the career ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Summer's Last Will And Testament
''Summer's Last Will and Testament'' is an Elizabethan stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Nashe. The play is notable for breaking new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama: "No earlier English comedy has anything like the intellectual content or the social relevance that it has." Although Nashe is known as an Elizabethan playwright, ''Summer's Last Will and Testament'' is his only extant solo-authored play; his other surviving dramatic work, '' Dido, Queen of Carthage'', is a collaboration with Christopher Marlowe, in which Nashe's role was probably very minimal. Publication The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on 28 October 1600, and was published before the end of that year in a quarto printed by Simon Stafford for the bookseller Walter Burre. (Burre is best known for his publication of first editions of the plays of Ben Jonson.) The 1600 quarto was the only edition of the play prior to the nineteenth century. Date and performance No exter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1607 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1607. Events *January 22 – Shortly before his death, bookseller Cuthbert Burby transfers the rights to print the text of ''The Taming of the Shrew'' to Nicholas Ling. *February 2 – The King's Men perform Barnes's ''The Devil's Charter'' at the English Court. *June 5 – Physician John Hall marries Susanna, daughter of William Shakespeare. *September 5 – ''Hamlet'' is performed aboard the Honourable East India Company, East India Company ship ''Red Dragon'', under the command of Captain William Keeling, anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone, the first known performance of a Shakespeare play outside England in English, and the first by amateurs. *September 30 – ''Richard II (play), Richard II'' is performed aboard the ''Dragon''. *''unknown dates'' **First performance of the first wholly Parody, parodic play in English, Francis Beaumont's ''The Knight of the Burning Pestle'', unsuccessfully ... [...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] |
Children Of The Chapel
The Children of the Chapel are the boys with unbroken voices, choristers, who form part of the Chapel Royal, the body of singers and priests serving the spiritual needs of their sovereign wherever they were called upon to do so. They were overseen by the Master of the Children of the Chapel Royal. The Children of the Chapel Royal Sometime in the 12th century or earlier, a distinct establishment known as the Chapels Royal was created within the English Royal Court and its musical establishment now claims to be the oldest continuous musical organization in the world. Children sang in church because their high voices were considered closest to the angels and Queen Elizabeth’s need for entertainment and care for her “spiritual well being”. Boy groups from grammar and choir school, ages 7–14, were royally patronized to perform songs for the Queen and her court. The Choir's, now just ten, boys are traditionally known as the Children of the Chapel Royal, and wear the distinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1613 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1613. Events *January–February – The English royal court sees massive celebrations for the marriage of Frederick V, Elector Palatine, to King James's daughter Princess Elizabeth, culminating in their wedding on February 14. **During court festivities in the winter of 1612–1613, the King's Men give twenty performances, which include eight Shakespeare plays, four by Beaumont and Fletcher, and the lost ''Cardenio''. **Early January – The Children of the Queen's Revels give two performances of Beaumont and Fletcher's ''Cupid's Revenge''. **January 11 – The English playing company that had been the Admiral's Men, then Prince Henry's Men, becomes the Elector Palatine's (or Palsgrave's) Men. **February 15 – ''The Memorable Masque of the Middle Temple and Lincoln's Inn'', written by George Chapman and designed by Inigo Jones, is staged in the Great Hall of the Palace of Whitehall. Francis Bea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Knight Of The Burning Pestle
''The Knight of the Burning Pestle'' is a play in five acts by Francis Beaumont, first performed at Blackfriars Theatre in 1607 and published in a quarto in 1613. It is the earliest whole parody (or pastiche) play in English. The play is a satire on chivalric romances in general, similar to ''Don Quixote'', and a parody of Thomas Heywood's ''The Four Prentices of London'' and Thomas Dekker's ''The Shoemaker's Holiday''. It breaks the fourth wall from its outset. Text It is most likely that the play was written for the child actors at Blackfriars Theatre, where John Marston had previously had plays produced. In addition to the textual history testifying to a Blackfriars origin, there are multiple references within the text to Marston, to the actors as children (notably from the Citizen's Wife, who seems to recognise the actors from their school), and other indications that the performance took place in a house known for biting satire and sexual innuendo. Blackfriars specialis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Beaumont
Francis Beaumont ( ; 1584 – 6 March 1616) was a dramatist in the English Renaissance theatre, most famous for his collaborations with John Fletcher. Beaumont's life Beaumont was the son of Sir Francis Beaumont of Grace Dieu, near Thringstone in Leicestershire, a justice of the common pleas. His mother was Anne, the daughter of Sir George Pierrepont (d. 1564), of Holme Pierrepont, and his wife Winnifred Twaits. Beaumont was born at the family seat and was educated at Broadgates Hall (now Pembroke College, Oxford) at age thirteen. Following the death of his father in 1598, he left university without a degree and followed in his father's footsteps by entering the Inner Temple in London in 1600. Accounts suggest that Beaumont did not work long as a lawyer. He became a student of poet and playwright Ben Jonson; he was also acquainted with Michael Drayton and other poets and dramatists, and decided that was where his passion lay. His first work, ''Salmacis and Hermaphroditu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignoramus (play)
''Ignoramus'' is a college farce, a 1615 academic play by George Ruggle. Written in Latin (with passages in English and French), it was arguably the most famous and influential academic play of English Renaissance drama. Ruggle based his play on '' La Trappolaria'' ( 1596), an Italian comedy by Giambattista della Porta (which in turn borrows from the ''Pseudolus'' of Plautus). In Latin, '' ignoramus'', the first-person plural present active indicative of '' īgnōrō'' (“I do not know”, “I am unacquainted with”, “I am ignorant of”), literally means “we are ignorant of” or “we do not know”. The term acquired its English meaning of an ignorant person or dunce as a consequence of Ruggle's play. Performance The play was first produced in Clare College, Cambridge on Wednesday, March 8, 1615, as part of the program of entertainments for a visit by King James I. James enjoyed the play so much that he returned to Cambridge to see it again on Saturday, May 13 of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1615 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1615. Events *January 6 – ''Mercury Vindicated from the Alchemists'', a masque written by Ben Jonson and designed by Inigo Jones, is performed at Whitehall Palace in London. *January 13 – William Browne's masque ''Circe and Ulysses'' is staged at the Inner Temple in London. *January 23 – English poet John Donne becomes an ordained minister in the Church of England. *March 7– 11 – King James I of England and Prince Charles visit the University of Cambridge, the first royal visit there since the progress of Queen Elizabeth I in 1564. The university stages entertainments that include performances in Latin of Cecil's ''Aemilia'' (March 7), Ruggle's farce ''Ignoramus'' (March 8), Tomkis's comedy ''Albumazar'' (March 9), and Brooke's ''Melanthe'' (March 10). The royals leave Cambridge prior to the première of Fletcher's ''Sicelides, a Piscatory'' (March 13). King James enjoys ''Ignoramus'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albumazar (play)
''Albumazar'' is a Jacobean era play, a comedy written by Thomas Tomkis that was performed and published in 1615. Productions The play was specially commissioned by Trinity College, Cambridge to entertain King James I during his 1615 visit to the University. College officials sought a play from alumnus Tomkis, then a lawyer in Wolverhampton, who had written the successful ''Lingua'' for his college a decade earlier. Gentlemen of Trinity College acted ''Albumazar'' before the King and his court on 9 March 1615 (new style). One report on this production from an audience member survives, in a letter from John Chamberlain to Dudley Carleton – though Chamberlain thought it a failure. The play was revived onstage during the Restoration, by the Duke's Company at their theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields; Samuel Pepys saw it on 22 February 1668. In 1744 playwright James Ralph adapted Tomkis's play into his ''The Astrologer;'' it was not a success, and ran for one performance only. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Tomkis
Thomas Tomkis (or Tomkys) (c. 1580 – 1634) was an English playwright of the late Elizabethan and the Jacobean eras, and arguably one of the more cryptic figures of English Renaissance drama. Tomkis was the son of a Staffordshire clergyman, John Tomkys, who became the Public Preacher at St Mary's church, Shrewsbury in Shropshire, from 1582 until his death in 1592. Thomas matriculated in Trinity College, Cambridge in 1597. Tomkis earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1600, and his Master of Arts degree in 1604; he became a minor fellow of Trinity College in 1602, and a major fellow in 1604. He remained at the college until 1610, when he moved to Wolverhampton and set up a successful legal practice. His college called him back five years later, to prepare an entertainment of King James I. Tomkis is credited with two academic plays of the early seventeenth century: ''Lingua'' (published 1607) and '' Albumazar'' (published 1615). He is also regarded as a likely author of ''Pathom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
