sir william davenant - an introduction - ghizela rowe lyrics
sir william davenant was born in march 1606 and was both a poet and a playwright. davenant was one of the rare figures in english renaissance theater whose career spanned both the caroline and the restoration eras, and who was active both before and after the english civil war and during the interregnum. following the death of ben jonson in 1637, davenant was named poet laureate in 1638
he was a supporter of king charles i in the english civil war. in 1645 after the battle of naseby, hе retired to paris and worked on his еpic poem gondibert. that same year he was appointed emissary to france, and in 1649 treasurer of the colony of virginia by charles ii. the following year, he was made lieutenant governor of maryland, but was captured at sea, imprisoned, and sentenced to death. he spent all of 1651 in the tower of london, where he continued writing gondibert. on his release in 1652, he immediately published gondibert. in order to avoid the strict laws of censorship enforced in all public places at the time, he turned around his home, rockland house, into a private theater where his works and those of other writers considered seditious could be performed
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