Article: Sir William Davenant, the court masque, and the English seventeenth-century scenic stage, c. 1605--c. 1700.(Brief article)(Book review)

Article: Sir William Davenant's American Operas.
The Modern Language Review;  April 1, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... John Thurloe, Cromwell's Secretary of State, Sir William Davenant attended to the dramatic and propagandistic possibilities ... intended to propagandize for Cromwell's initiatives: Sir William Davenant [ ... ] wrote the First and Second Parte of Peru ...

Article: Sir William Davenant's use of Shakespeare in ...
Philological Quarterly;  September 22, 1997 ;     700+ words ...Sir William Davenant's The Law Against Lovers (1662) was the first adaptation of Shakespeare performed on the Restoration stage after the reopening ...

Sir William Davenant.
NYPL Digital Gallery;  January 1, 1934 ;     259 words ...

Article: "Man hungry": reconsidering threats to colonial and patriarchal ...
Texas Studies in Literature and Language;  December 22, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Why, in 1667, did John Dryden and William Davenant choose to revise Shakespeare's The Tempest, and what do their revisions signify for literary and cultural history? (1) Their ...

Article: Which one is the real Shakespeare?
China Daily;  March 3, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... to an early 18th-century source it was owned by Sir William Davenant, who revered Shakespeare, but was only 10 when he ... impossible entirely to discount, said Cooper, that Sir William was making a "wishful assumption." Of the other ...

Encyclopedia entry: Killigrew, Thomas
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre;      477 words ... ... 1662 under a Charter granted by Charles II. With Sir William Davenant , holder of a similar Charter for the Duke's House ... was often in financial difficulties. His brother Sir William (1606–95) and his son Thomas (1657 ...

Article: Opinion Focus: Argument is such stuff as dreams are made of
The Scotsman;  September 15, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... included a biography of Shakespeare in his Brief Lives and got much of his information from the Poet Laureate, Sir William Davenant, reputed to have been Shakespeare's illegitimate son. Shakespeare's life is well-documented, apart from ...