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 | | Born in Oxford in February, 1606, Davenant was the son of John Davenant, a vintner, and his wife Jane--or possibly, as he later liked to hint, the son of William Shakespeare, a friend of the family and possibly Davenant's godfather. |
 | | His earliest play, was published in 1629, and he became poet laureate (1638) and then "governor" of the actors at the Cockpit Theater (1639), but the revolution, and his Royalist sympathies, led to his imprisonment on several occasions and to his turning to heroic poetry, his Gondibert(1651), instead of drama. |
 | | In 1762 William Smith played leading roles in Shakespeare on thirty-five different nights during the run of The Coronation. |
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