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Sir William Davenant (baptised 3 March 1606 – 7 April 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an English poet and playwright.
Sir William Davenant was an English poet, playwright, and theatre manager who was made poet laureate on the strength of such successes as The Witts (licensed 1634), a comedy; the masques The Temple of Love, Britannia Triumphans, and Luminalia; and a volume of poems, Madagascar (published 1638).
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Sep 16, 2018 · Learn about the life and work of William Davenant, a versatile playwright who wrote for different kinds of theaters before and after the Puritan ban on drama. Discover how he adapted Macbeth and other Shakespeare plays for the Restoration era audience.
Oct 28, 2022 · Learn about the life and works of William Davenant, a versatile and influential figure in early-modern English literature and philosophy. Explore his neoclassical aesthetics, his political and epistemological views, and his relation to Shakespeare and Hobbes.
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Learn about the life and works of William D'Avenant, a poet, playwright, and theatre manager who adapted Shakespeare's plays. Find entries on his biography, his influence on English drama, and his works in The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature.
Sir William Davenant was an English poet and playwright. There were also rumours about Davenant being a bastard son of William Shakespeare though they have not been proven. Early Life. Davenant was born in 1606 and (according to John Aubrey) Shakespeare was his godfather. Shakespeare died in 1616 when Davenant was 10 years old.
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Davenant's most famous work, his magnum opus (‘the Mon'ment of my Minde’, as he called it), is his verse epic Gondibert, written in 1650-51. This was while he was imprisoned in the Tower of London by the Commonwealth government.
