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The Scornful Lady
''The Scornful Lady'' is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, and first published in 1616, the year of Beaumont's death. It was one of the pair's most popular, often revived, and frequently reprinted works. Performances The title page of the 1616 first edition states that the play was premiered by the Children of the Queen's Revels; it later passed into the possession of the King's Men, who revived the play in 1624. (The company's clown, John Shank, played the Curate in their 1624 production.) The King's Men acted ''The Scornful Lady'' on 19 October 1633, when Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, refused to let them perform '' The Woman's Prize.'' Prince Charles, the future King Charles II, attended a performance of the play at the Cockpit-in-Court Theatre on Twelfth Night, 6 January 1642. While the theatres were closed during the English Civil War and the Interregnum (1642–60), material was extracted from ''Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Twelfth Night (holiday)
Twelfth Night (also known as Epiphany Eve depending upon the tradition) is a Christian festival on the last night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, marking the coming of the Epiphany. Different traditions mark the date of Twelfth Night as either or , depending on whether the counting begins on Christmas Day or . January 6 is celebrated as the feast of Epiphany, which begins the Epiphanytide season. A superstition in some English-speaking countries suggests it is unlucky to leave Christmas decorations hanging after Twelfth Night, a tradition also variously attached to Candlemas (which marks the end of Epiphanytide on 2 February), as well as Good Friday, Shrove Tuesday, and Septuagesima. Other popular customs include eating king cake, singing Christmas carols, chalking the door, House blessing, having one's house blessed, merrymaking, and attending church services. Date In many Western ecclesiastical traditions such as the Lutheran and Anglican denominations of Christianity, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1668 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1668. Events *c. February – The English Parliament and bishops seek to suppress Thomas Hobbes' treatise ''Leviathan (Hobbes book), Leviathan''. *September 9 – Molière's comedy ''The Miser (L'Avare)'' is first performed, at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris. *''unknown date'' – Izaak Walton's ''The Compleat Angler'' goes into its fourth edition. New books Prose *Juan Caramuel – ''Primus calamus'' *Meric Casaubon – ''Of Credulity and Incredulity'' *Josiah Child – ''Brief Observations concerning Trade and the Interest of Money'' *Jean Claude – ''Réponse au livre de P. Nouet sur l'eucharistie'' *Comenius, Jan Comenius – ''The Way of Light'' *John Dryden – ''Essay of Dramatick Poesie'' *Richard Duckworth (campanologist), Richard Duckworth and Fabian Stedman – ''Tintinnalogia, or, the Art of Ringing'' *Richard Flecknoe – ''Sir William Davenant's Voyage t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1667 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1667. Events *January – Courtier Tobias Rustat creates the first endowment for the purchase of books for Cambridge University Library in England. *February 22 – The Lejonkulan ("lion's den") opens at Stockholm in Sweden as the first permanent theater in Scandinavia, with the performance of Jean Magnon's ''Orontes en Satira''. *March 2 – The première of John Dryden's tragicomedy '' Secret Love, or The Maiden Queen'' at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane in London is well received by an audience including King Charles II of England, his brother the Duke of York and Samuel Pepys. The cast includes Nell Gwyn in one of the first breeches roles in Restoration theatre and her lover Charles Hart. *April 15 - Edward Howard's play ''The Change of Crowns'' is first performed, in London. Actor John Lacy improvises a few lines about influence-peddling at court, angering King Charles II, a member of the au ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1666 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1666. Events *June 4 – Molière's comedy of manners ''Le Misanthrope'' is premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal (rue Saint-Honoré) in Paris by the King's Players (''Troupe du Roi''). *July – Aphra Behn goes to Antwerp to work as a government spy. *August 6 – Molière's comedy ''Le Médecin malgré lui'' ("The doctor in spite of himself") is premièred at the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris by the King's Players with Molière himself playing the title character, Sganarelle. *September 2 – Samuel Pepys begins recording details of the Great Fire of London in his diary. The destruction of Old St Paul's Cathedral in the conflagration also destroys the stock of many London publishers, which is stored in the crypt. This probably includes unsold copies of the Early texts of Shakespeare's works#Folios, Third Folio of Shakespeare's works (1663 in literature, 1663). New books Prose *Nicolas B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Killigrew
Thomas Killigrew (7 February 1612 – 19 March 1683) was an English dramatist and theatre manager. He was a witty, dissolute figure at the court of King Charles II of England. Life Killigrew was one of twelve children of Sir Robert Killigrew of Hanworth, a courtier to James I, and his wife Mary née Woodhouse; he became a page to King Charles I at about the age of thirteen. According to Samuel Pepys, the boy Killigrew used to volunteer as an extra, or "devil," at the Red Bull Theatre, so that he could see the plays for free. The young Killigrew had limited formal education; the Court and the playhouse were his schoolroom. Killigrew was present at the exorcism of the possessed nuns of Loudun. In 1635 he left a sceptical account of the proceedings. Before the English Civil War, Killigrew wrote several plays— tragicomedies like ''Claracilla'' and ''The Prisoners'', as well as his most popular play, '' The Parson's Wedding'' (1637). The latter play has been criticized for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1661 In Literature
This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1661. Events *August 24 – Samuel Pepys sees the new production of ''Hamlet'' by Sir William Davenant's troupe of actors, the Duke's Company, with the innovation of stage scenery. The Duke's Company have recently moved from the Salisbury Court Theatre to the theatre at Lincoln's Inn Fields, where they have been joined by Thomas Betterton; Pepys praises Betterton's Prince Hamlet as "beyond imagination." *December 28 – Controversial author James Harrington is arrested on a charge of conspiracy, while working on his final publication, ''A System of Politics''. *''Unknown dates'' **The Book of Kells (c. 800) is presented to Trinity College Dublin. **Bishop John Gauden claims authorship of ''Eikon Basilike'' (1649). **Third edition of Izaak Walton's ''The Compleat Angler''. **The trend toward closet drama (often highly politicized), which distinguished the English Civil War and Interregnum periods, does not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1660 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1660. Events *January 11 – Samuel Pepys starts his diary, still using the Old Style date of 1 January. *February/March – John Rhodes reopens the old Cockpit Theatre in London, forms a company of young actors and begins to stage plays. His production of ''Pericles'' will be the first Shakespearean performance of the Restoration era; Thomas Betterton makes his stage debut in the title rôle. *May – The English Restoration brings a host of Royalist exiles back to England, Richard Baxter among them, and many panegyrics are produced to commemorate the event. *June – A warrant is issued for the arrest of the anti-monarchist John Milton, who is forced into hiding, whilst his writings are burned. *August 21 – The newly restored King Charles II of England issues a royal grant for two theatre companies: a King's Company under his own patronage, led by Thomas Killigrew, and a Duke's Compan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Pepys
Samuel Pepys ( ; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English writer and Tories (British political party), Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament (England), Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade. Though he had no Maritime pilot, maritime experience, Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both Charles II of England, Charles II and James II of England, James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty (United Kingdom), English Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources of the Stuart Restoration. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Restoration
The Stuart Restoration was the reinstatement in May 1660 of the Stuart monarchy in Kingdom of England, England, Kingdom of Scotland, Scotland, and Kingdom of Ireland, Ireland. It replaced the Commonwealth of England, established in January 1649 after the execution of Charles I, with his son Charles II of England, Charles II. The Commonwealth of England had been governed by Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell and then his son Richard Cromwell. The term is also used to describe the reign of Charles II (1660–1685), and sometimes that of his younger brother King James II, James II (1685–1688). The Protectorate After Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector from 1658 to 1659, ceded power to the Rump Parliament, Charles Fleetwood and John Lambert (general), John Lambert then dominated government for a year. On 20 October 1659, George Monck, the governor of Scotland under the Cromwells, marched south with his army from Scotland to oppose Fleetwood and Lambert. Lambert's a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francis Kirkman
Francis Kirkman (1632 – c. 1680) appears in many roles in the English literary world of the second half of the seventeenth century, as a publisher, bookseller, librarian, author and bibliographer. In each he is an enthusiast for popular literature and a popularising businessman, described by one modern editor as "hovering on the borderline of roguery". Early life Francis Kirkman was the eldest son of Francis Kirkman senior (1602–61), who was a member of the Blacksmith's Company and a citizen of the City of London. Little is known of the younger Kirkman's life beyond his publications. He wrote ''The Unlucky Citizen'' (1673), which is taken to be autobiographical, though Kirkman was anything but reliable. However, the part in which he refers to his discovery of literature rings true, and is a good example of his style and enterprise: As will be seen, Kirkman’s enthusiasm for some of these books led him to publish them himself. He claims to have been forbidden to travel o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Droll
A droll is a short comical sketch of a type that originated during the Puritan Interregnum in England. With the closure of the theatres, actors were left without any way of plying their art. Borrowing scenes from well-known plays of the Elizabethan theatre, they added dancing and other entertainments and performed these, sometimes illegally, to make money. Along with the popularity of the source play, material for drolls was generally chosen for physical humor or for wit. Francis Kirkman's ''The Wits, or Sport Upon Sport'', 1662, is a collection of twenty-seven drolls. Three are adapted from Shakespeare: ''Bottom the Weaver'' from ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'', the gravedigger's scene from ''Hamlet'', and a collection of scenes involving Falstaff called ''The Bouncing Knight''. A typical droll presented a subplot from John Marston's '' The Dutch Courtesan''; the piece runs together all the scenes in which a greedy vintner is gulled and robbed by a deranged gallant. Just und ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
