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	Sir William Davenant
		NGLISH poet and dramatist, SIR WILLIAM DAVENANT, was baptized on the 3rd of March, 1606; he was born at the Crown Inn, Oxford, of which his father, a wealthy vintner, was proprietor.
		By this time Davenant had, however, thoroughly ingratiated himself with the court; and on the death of Ben Jonson in 1637 he was rewarded with the office of poet-laureate, to the exclusion of Thomas May, who considered himself entitled to the honour.
		Davenant, released from prison, immediately published Gondibert, the work on which his fame mainly rests, a chivalric epic in the four-line stanza which Sir John Davies had made popular by his Cosce teipsum, the influence of which is strongly marked in the philosophical passages of Gondibert.
	www.theatredatabase.com /17th_century/sir_william_davenant.html (1415 words)

	HOASM: Sir William Davenant
		By this time Davenant had, however, thoroughly ingratiated himself with the court; and on the death of Ben Jonson in 1637 he was rewarded with the office of poet-laureate, to the exclusion of Thomas May, who considered himself entitled to the honor.
		Davenant, released from prison, immediately published Gondibert, the work on which his fame mainly, rests, a chivalric epic in the four-line stanza which Sir John Davies had made popular by his Nosce teipsum, the influence of which is strongly marked in the philosophical passages of Gondibert.
		Davenant wrote the text but the score was the work of five composers, among them Henry Lawes and the young Matthew Locke.
	www.hoasm.org /VIIA/Davenant.html (1449 words)

	Sir William Davenant
		Sir William Davenant (or D'Avenant), English poet and dramatist, was baptized on the 3rd of March 1606; he was born at the Crown Inn Oxford of which his father, a wealthy vintner, was proprietor.
		By this time Davenant had however thoroughly ingratiated himself with the court; and on the death of Ben Jonson in 1639 he was rewarded with the office of poet-laureate, to the exclusion of Thomas May, who considered himself entitled to the honor.
		Davenant, released from prison, immediately published Gondibert -- the work on which his fame mainly rests, a chivalric epic in the four-line stanza which Sir John Davies had made popular by his Nosce teipsum, the influence of which is strongly marked in the philosophical passages of Gondibert.
	www.nndb.com /people/037/000096746 (1401 words)

	William Davenant at AllExperts
		Davenant was born in late February, 1606 in Oxford, England, the son of Jane Shepherd Davenant and John Davenant, proprietor of the Crown Tavern (or Crown Inn) and mayor of Oxford.
		Davenant once again found himself in legal trouble in 1659, when he was imprisoned for his part in Sir George Booth's uprising at Cheshire.
		He is buried in the Poets' Corner at Westminster Abbey where the inscription on his tablet reads "O rare Sir William Davenant." It has been noted that the original inscription on Ben Jonson's tablet, which was already removed by the time Davenant died, was "Rare Ben," which was the name Shakespeare supposedly had for Jonson.
	en.allexperts.com /e/w/wi/william_davenant.htm (1036 words)

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		Davenant, Charles, LL.D. (1656-1714), economists and politician, son of Sir William Davenant, the poet, was born in London.
		Under William III, he did not hold office, and criticised the financial policy of the government with some bitterness; but, on the accession of Queen Anne, he returned to official life as secretary to the commission appointed to treat for the union with Scotland.
		Davenant is perhaps best know to most readers by his employment of the estimate made by Gregory King of the effect of deficiency in supply on augmentation of price.
	socserv2.socsci.mcmaster.ca /~econ/ugcm/3ll3/davenant/davenant.html (740 words)

	John Davenant, Mayor of Oxford
		On 11 December 1618 Davenant's eldest son, Robert, was matriculated at the University of Oxford from St John's College at the age of 15.
		Davenant's servant, Thomas Hallam (or Hellam or Hollome or Hallum) was admitted free the following August, and married Jane, the third of Davenant's daughters.
		Davenant's will, proved on 21 October 1622, directed that the inn be kept open for the better relief of his children, that his two youngest daughters should "keep the bar by turns", and that his son William should be "put to prentice to some good merchant or other tradesman".
	www.headington.org.uk /oxon/mayors/1603_1714/davenant_john_1621.htm (1094 words)

	PeoplePlay UK - William Davenant
		According to legend, Davenant was the illegitimate son of William Shakespeare.
		Davenant opened the Duke’s Theatre where he presented adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays with music, forerunners of the semi-operas of Purcell.
		Davenant wrote the text but the score was the work of several different musicians.
	www.peopleplayuk.org.uk /collections/object.php?object_id=1583 (166 words)

	Notes on the life of William Shakespeare
		Davenant : Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was the son of John Davenant who was the proprietor of the Crown Tavern in Oxford, though he claimed to be the illegitimate son of William Shakespeare.
		Pembroke : William Herbert, 3rd Earl of Pembroke (1580-1630) was the eldest son of Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, sister to Sir Philip Sidney.
		Wayte : William Wayte was responding to a similar writ issued by Langley against himself and William Gardiner, the Justice of the Peace, who had previously (in 1593) enforced a judgement for assault against Langley.
	www.adnax.com /notes/wsnotes.htm (1778 words)

	HOASM: William Lawes
		In 1636 Lawes collaborated with his brother Henry in William Davenant's masque The Triumphs of the Prince d'Amourperformed at the Middle Temple on February 23 and 24, 1636, and on William Cartwright's play The Royal Slaveat Oxford during the royal visit on August 30, 1636.
		Lawes enjoyed great favor and friendship with Charles, and when the king moved the court to Oxford, William followed and was made a commissary in the king's personal life guards.
		William Lawes has more in common with Nicholas Lanier and John Wilson than with his younger brother.
	www.hoasm.org /IVM/Lawes.html (656 words)

	WILLIAM SHAKESPEAR (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		William Shakespeare was born on April 23, 1564.
		Mary Arden, the mother of William, was the youngest of eight daughters.
		William Davenant was born in late February of the year 1606.
	schoolweb.missouri.edu /ashland.k12.mo.us/0405/13 (787 words)

	Restoration Theatres
		For practical purposes, then, Davenant and Killigrew were starting from scratch, and it was this that gave them opportunity to remake the London theatre.
		Although it was nearly two years before Davenant's company was able to move out of their temporary base at the Cockpit, the new theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields was not, in fact, a purpose-built facility for drama, but had, instead, been converted from Lisle's Tennis Court on Portugal Street.
		Betterton had assumed control over the company from Sir William Davenant's widow, and he wanted a new and magnificent building to replace the converted tennis court in Lincoln's Inn Fields that was his companies current home.
	instruct.uwo.ca /english/234e/site/bckgrnds/maps/lndnmprstrtnthtrs.html (1079 words)

	William Davenant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir William Davenant (February 28, 1606 – April 7, 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright.
		Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras, and who was active both before and after the English Civil War and the Interregnum.
		Nine of his works, though they were previously licensed or produced in London during his life like all of his plays, were finally published in print posthumously.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Davenant (1212 words)

	Shakespeare in the Restoration
		Sir William Davenant (1606-1668), flamboyant poet and dramatist, claimed that he was the illegitimate son of Shakespeare.
		His life was full of drama--he killed a tapster in a tavern brawl, participated in the Army Plot against Parliament, and was a blockade runner during the civil wars.
		Davenant was permitted to produce operas in the 1650s, when plays were forbidden, and after the Restoration in 1660 he adapted several of Shakespeare's plays.
	ise.uvic.ca /Library/SLT/drama/davenant.html (142 words)

	March 3rd
		Davenant, aptly designated by Leigh Hunt, 'as the restorer of the stage in his time, and the last of the deep-working poetical intellects of the age that followed that of Elizabeth,' was the son of an innkeeper at Oxford.
		Davenant succeeded to the laureateship on the death of Ben Jonson.
		On the decline of the king's affairs, his life was saved, it is said, chiefly by the interference of Milton; and it is believed that the intercession of Davenant afterwards mainly contributed to preserve Milton from the scaffold when matters changed in England.
	www.thebookofdays.com /months/march/3.htm (2882 words)

	William Shakespeare Biography - Was Sir William Davenant his illegitimate son?
		His wife's name was Jane Shepherd Davenant and she gave birth to a son who was named Will Davenant.
		Butler is said to have made the comment, "It seemed to him (Davenant) that he writ with the very same spirit that Shakespeare (did), and seemed content enough, to be called his son." It would appear that Davenant did not initially allay these rumours!
		Davenant died in his house at Lincoln's Inn Fields on the 7th April 1668 and was buried in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey two days later.
	www.william-shakespeare.info /william-shakespeare-illegitimate-son-william-davenant.htm (510 words)

	Restoration Drama
		HEN came the gallant protest of the Restoration, when Wycherley and his successors in drama commenced to write of contemporary life in much the spirit of modern musical comedy.
		A new style of comedy was improvised, which, for lack of a better term, we may agree to call the comedy of Gallantry, and which Etherege, Shadwell, and Davenant, and Crowne, and Wycherley, and divers others, labored painstakingly to perfect.
		The Siege of Rhodes, a huge spectacle designed by Davenant in 1656 (arranged in part with a view of evading the restrictions against theatrical plays) is generally noted as marking the entrance of women upon the English stage.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/restoration_drama_001.html (2133 words)

	William Davenant - Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
		Sir William Davenant (Oxford, 28 de febrero de 1606 - 7 de abril de 1668) es un poeta y dramaturgo inglés, cuyas obras son características de la literatura de la Restauración inglesa.
		William fue un privilegiado ya que tuvo como padrino a William Shakespeare que frecuentaba la taberna durante sus viajes entre Londres y Stratford-upon-Avon.
		Después de padecer de sífilis durante cerca de cuatro decenios, Davenant murió en Londres en abril de 1668.
	es.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Davenant (346 words)

	all things William
		Poems by William Cowper of the Inner Temple, Esq.
		How much pleasure they lose (and even the pleasures of heroic poesy are not unprofitable) who take away the liberty of a poet, and fetter his feet in the shackles of a historian.
		The poem, to me (until I go broke) is an attempt, an experiment, a failing experiment, toward assertion with broken means but an assertion, always, of a new and total culture, the lifting of an environment to expression.
	allthingswilliam.com /poetry.html (1219 words)

	Davenant Sir William - Search Results - MSN Encarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668), English dramatist and poet, born in Oxford.
		Herschel, Sir William (1738-1822), German-born British astronomer, who made many important contributions to astronomy.
		Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780), British jurist and legal scholar, whose work, Commentaries on the Laws of England, was used for more than a...
	uk.encarta.msn.com /Davenant_Sir_William.html (98 words)

	The Awe-Inspiring Shakespeare Forgeries and their Creators - The Crime library
		At first, Davenant maintained that Shakespeare was his godfather.
		Then, as his theatrical reputation grew during the 1620s, he hinted that Shakespeare had had an affair with his mother, and that he was the biological son of Shakespeare.
		It is difficult to forgive the self-aggrandizing Davenant, but it is somewhat easier to forgive John Jordan.
	www.crimelibrary.com /criminal_mind/scams/shakespeare/9.html (1287 words)

	Shakespeare and Mrs. Davenant
		This article, translated by Melville B. Anderson, was first published in English in William Shakespeare.
		Half-way upon the short journey he encountered Oxford, and at Oxford the Crown Inn, and at the inn the hostess, a beautiful, intelligent creature, wife of the worthy innkeeper, Davenant.
		- A biography of the English poet and dramatist, sometimes rumored to be the illegitimate son of William Shakespeare.
	www.theatrehistory.com /british/shakespeare028.html (167 words)

	William Davenant Summary
		Sir William Davenant (or D'Avenant), dramatist and theater manager, poet and courtier, is a link between the older Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and the new Restoration drama.
		Sir William Davenant(February 28, 1606- April 7, 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright.
		Biography Davenant was born in late February, 1606 in Oxford, England, the son of Jane Shepherd Davenant and John Davenant, proprietor o...
	www.bookrags.com /William_Davenant (162 words)

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	William Tuke - HighBeam Encyclopedia
		His brother Daniel Hack Tuke, 1827-95, was an eminent physician whose study of insanity resulted in a valuable treatise, A Manual of Psychological Medicine (with J. Bucknill, 1858).
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Tuke, William" at HighBeam.
		Sir William Davenant's use of Shakespeare in 'The Law Against Lovers' (1662).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Tuke-Wil.html (285 words)

	Sir William Davenant Quotes
		3 Quotes for 'Sir William Davenant' in the Database.
		For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; His hook was such as heads the end of pole To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole; This hook was bated with a dragon's tail,-- And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.
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