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The Conspiracy And Tragedy Of Charles, Duke Of Byron
''The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Charles, Duke of Byron, Marshall of France'' is a Jacobean tragedy by George Chapman, a two-part play or double play first performed and published in 1608. It tells the story of Charles de Gontaut, duc de Biron, executed for treason in 1602. Genre The two plays that comprise the larger work, ''The Conspiracy of Byron'' and ''The Tragedy of Byron'', can also be described as "contemporary history;" they form the second and third installments in a series of dramas that Chapman wrote on French politics and history in his time, from ''Bussy D'Ambois'' through ''The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France''. Date and performance In all likelihood, Chapman composed both parts of ''Byron'' in 1607–8; his primary source on the political events portrayed in the plays, Edward Grimeston's ''A General Inventory of the History of France'', was first published in 1607. The plays were first acted by the Children of the Chapel (by 1608 known as the Children of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Literature In English
English literature is literature written in the English language from United Kingdom, its crown dependencies, the Republic of Ireland, the United States, and the countries of the former British Empire. ''The Encyclopaedia Britannica'' defines English literature more narrowly as, "the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are treated separately under American literature, Australian literature, Canadian literature, and New Zealand literature." However, despite this, it includes literature from the Republic of Ireland, "Anglo-American modernism", and discusses post-colonial literature. ; See also full articles on American literature and other literatures in the English language. The English language has developed over the course of more than 1,400 years. The earliest forms of English, a set of Anglo-Fri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stationers' Register
The Stationers' Register was a record book maintained by the Stationers' Company of London. The company is a trade guild given a royal charter in 1557 to regulate the various professions associated with the publishing industry, including printers, bookbinders, booksellers, and publishers in England. The Register itself allowed publishers to document their right to produce a particular printed work, and constituted an early form of copyright law. The company's charter gave it the right to seize illicit editions and bar the publication of unlicensed books. For the study of English literature of the later sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries—for the Elizabethan era, the Jacobean era, the Caroline era, and especially for English Renaissance theatre—the Stationers' Register is an crucial and essential resource: it provides factual information and hard data that is available nowhere else. Together with the records of the Master of the Revels (which relate to dramatic perform ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1609 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1609. Events *January 1 – The Children of the Chapel, Children of the Blackfriars perform Thomas Middleton's ''A Trick to Catch the Old One'' at the English royal court. *January 15 – ''Avisa Relation oder Zeitung'', an early newspaper, begins publication in Wolfenbüttel (Holy Roman Empire). *May 20 – The London publisher Thomas Thorpe issues ''Shakespeare's Sonnets, Shake-speares Sonnets'', with a dedication to "Mr. W. H.", and the poem ''A Lover's Complaint'' appended. It is unclear whether this has Shakespeare's authority. *July 28 – The ''Sea Venture'' is wrecked in Bermuda – an event thought to be an inspiration for Shakespeare's play ''The Tempest''. *October 12 – A version of the rhyme "Three Blind Mice" appears in ''Deuteromelia or The Seconde part of Musicks melodie'' (London). The editor and possible author of the verse is the teenage Thomas Ravenscroft. *December 8 – The '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the " Bard of Avon" (or simply "the Bard"). His extant works, including collaborations, consist of some 39 plays, 154 sonnets, three long narrative poems, and a few other verses, some of uncertain authorship. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other playwright. He remains arguably the most influential writer in the English language, and his works continue to be studied and reinterpreted. Shakespeare was born and raised in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire. At the age of 18, he married Anne Hathaway, with whom he had three children: Susanna, and twins Hamnet and Judith. Sometime between 1585 and 1592, he began a successful career in London as an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Marston (poet)
John Marston (baptised 7 October 1576 – 25 June 1634) was an English playwright, poet and satirist during the late Elizabethan and early Jacobean periods. His career as a writer lasted only a decade. His work is remembered for its energetic and often obscure style, its contributions to the development of a distinctively Jacobean style in poetry, and its idiosyncratic vocabulary. Life Marston was born to John and Maria Marston ''née'' Guarsi, and baptised 7 October 1576, at Wardington, Oxfordshire. His father was an eminent lawyer of the Middle Temple who first argued in London and then became the counsel to Coventry and ultimately its steward. John Marston entered Brasenose College, Oxford, in 1592 and received his BA in 1594. By 1595, he was in London, living in the Middle Temple, where he had been admitted a member three years previously. He had an interest in poetry and play writing, although his father's will of 1599 expresses the hope that he would give up such vaniti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Jonson
Benjamin "Ben" Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – c. 16 August 1637) was an English playwright and poet. Jonson's artistry exerted a lasting influence upon English poetry and stage comedy. He popularised the comedy of humours; he is best known for the satirical plays ''Every Man in His Humour'' (1598), '' Volpone, or The Fox'' (c. 1606), '' The Alchemist'' (1610) and '' Bartholomew Fair'' (1614) and for his lyric and epigrammatic poetry. "He is generally regarded as the second most important English dramatist, after William Shakespeare, during the reign of James I." Jonson was a classically educated, well-read and cultured man of the English Renaissance with an appetite for controversy (personal and political, artistic and intellectual) whose cultural influence was of unparalleled breadth upon the playwrights and the poets of the Jacobean era (1603–1625) and of the Caroline era (1625–1642)."Ben Jonson", ''Grolier Encyclopedia of Knowledge'', volume 10, p. 388. His ancestor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eastward Hoe
''Eastward Hoe'' or ''Eastward Ho!'' is an early Jacobean-era stage play written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson and John Marston. The play was first performed at the Blackfriars Theatre by a company of boy actors known as the Children of the Queen's Revels in early August 1605, and it was printed in September the same year. ''Eastward Ho!'' is a citizen or city comedy about Touchstone, a London goldsmith, and his two apprentices, Quicksilver and Golding. The play is highly satirical about social customs in early modern London, and its anti-Scottish satire resulted in a notorious scandal in which King James was offended and the play's authors were imprisoned. ''Eastward Ho!'' also references, even parodies, popular plays performed by adult companies such as ''The Spanish Tragedy'', ''Tamburlaine'' and ''Hamlet''. The play's title alludes to ''Westward Ho!'' by Thomas Dekker and John Webster who also wrote '' Northward Ho!'' in response that year. Characters * Touchstone, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1606 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1606. Events *January? – Sir Thomas Craig becomes church procurator. *February – John Day's satirical play ''The Isle of Gulls'' causes a scandal which sends several of the young actors from the Children of the Chapel to prison for short periods. *Spring – Ben Jonson's satirical play ''Volpone'' is first performed, by the King's Men at the Globe Theatre in London. *May 27 – The English Parliament passes '' An Act to Restrain Abuses of Players'', tightening censorship controls on public theatre performances, notably in relation to profane oaths. *August 7 – Possible first performance of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'', with Richard Burbage in the title role, amongst a series of plays presented by the King's Men before Kings James I of England and Christian IV of Denmark (his brother-in-law) at Hampton Court Palace in England. *November 14 – Marc Lescarbot's dramatic poem '' Théâtre de Neptun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Gentleman Usher
''The Gentleman Usher'' is an early 17th-century stage play, a comedy written by George Chapman that was first published in 1606. Date and publication ''The Gentleman Usher'' was entered into the Stationers' Register on 26 November 1605, under the alternative title ''Vincentio and Margaret'' (the names of its hero and heroine). The first edition appeared the next year, in a quarto printed by Valentine Simmes for the publisher Thomas Thorpe. The title page identifies Chapman as the author, but does not mention the playing company that staged the work. The style of the play, with its two masques and its use of music, suggests that one of the two children's companies, the Children of Paul's or the Children of the Queen's Revels, acted the play. Since other Chapman comedies of the early 17th century, '' All Fools'', '' Monsieur D'Olive'', '' Sir Giles Goosecap'', ''May Day'', and '' The Widow's Tears'', were performed by the Queen's Revels Children, it is not unlikely that ''The Ge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1605 In Literature
This article contains information about the literary events and publications of 1605. Events *January 1 – The Queen's Revels Children perform George Chapman's '' All Fools'' at the court of King James I of England. * January 6 – At the first performance of ''The Masque of Blackness'' at the Banqueting Hall, Whitehall Palace, the cast includes Penelope Rich and Lady Mary Wroth. * January 7 – The King's Men perform Shakespeare's ''Henry V'' at court. * January 8 – Ben Jonson's ''Every Man Out of His Humour'' is performed at court by the King's Men. *January – The King's Men perform '' Love's Labour's Lost'' before Queen Anne. * January 16 – The first part of Miguel de Cervantes' satire on chivalry, ''Don Quixote'' (''El ingenioso hidalgo don Quixote de la Mancha'', "The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote of La Mancha"), claimed to be translated from Arabic by Cide Hamete Benengeli into dialects of Old Spanish, and printed by Juan de la Cuesta in 1604, is published b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
All Fools
''All Fools'' is an early Jacobean era stage play, a comedy by George Chapman that was first published in 1605. The play has often been considered Chapman's highest achievement in comedy: "not only Chapman's most flawless, perfectly balanced play," but "also his most human and large-minded." "Chapman certainly wrote no comedy in which an ingenious and well-managed plot combined so harmoniously with personages so distinctly conceived and so cleverly and divertingly executed." Date, performance, and publication ''All Fools'' entered the historical record when the Children of the Queen's Revels performed the play at Court before King James I on 1 January 1605. Based on that fact, "the play was probably on the Blackfriars stage in 1604."Chambers, vol. 3, p. 252. The date of the play's composition is complicated by a notation in "Henslowe's Diary," the general term for the records that Philip Henslowe kept of his business at the Rose Theatre from 1591 to 1609. An undated note f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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