Name: Shakespeare's Other Son?: William Davenant, Playwright, Civil War Gun Runner and Restoration Theatre Manager
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Author: Pritchard, R. E.
ISBN: 9781399093491

portada Shakespeare's Other Son?: William Davenant, Playwright, Civil War Gun Runner and Restoration Theatre Manager

Shakespeare's Other Son?: William Davenant, Playwright, Civil War Gun Runner and Restoration Theatre Manager

Type

Physical Book

Author

R. E. Pritchard

Publisher

Pen & Sword Military

Year

2022

Language

English

Pages

240

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

23.6 x 15.4 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.52 kg.

ISBN13

9781399093491

Synopsis "Shakespeare's Other Son?: William Davenant, Playwright, Civil War Gun Runner and Restoration Theatre Manager"

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668) was in his time widely known as 'Davenant the Poet'. The son of an Oxford vintner (or quite possibly the natural son of his godfather, William Shakespeare), he wrote poems for and about the Court of Charles I, and, despite losing his nose to mercury treatment for the clap, which other people thought funny, went on to replace Ben Jonson as Poet Laureate and collaborate with Inigo Jones in composing spectacular Court masques, as well as writing many successful plays - a few fashionably blood-thirsty, most showing a real comic gift, humanity and sympathy with 'ordinary life.'In the Civil War, he earned a knighthood as an especially successful gun-runner for the Royalists, before escaping to Paris, where he worked on an epic poem. Then sent off by Charles II to colonize Virginia but captured by the Parliamentarians, he escaped execution but was imprisoned for five years. With the Restoration, he practically re-invented English theater, with the first English opera, women actors, movable scenery and the proscenium arch, as well as reviving interest in Shakespeare with inventive adaptations. Energetic, affable and resilient, he was an appealing and well-liked character.Celebrated and important in his day, Davenant is now surprisingly little known. This enterprising study introduces modern readers to his wit, poetry, and growing scepticism as to Court and aristocratic values, and his developing feminist sympathies. Here, select excerpts and summaries bring this entertaining writer to a new, wider audience.

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