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William Davenant

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Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

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William Davenant (606-1668)

  1. Born at crown Inn, Oxford in 1606.
  2. Works:
    1. Plays, masques, Operas
      1. the tragedy of Albovine (1629)
        1. His first play
      2. King of the Lombards (1627)
        1. A revange tragedy completed in 1627.
      3. The Cruel brother (1627)
      4. The Colonel
        1. (retitled as The Siege when it was published in 1672
      5. The Just Italian (comedy 1630)
      6. The Temple of Love (masque 16350
      7. The Wits (comedy 1636)
      8. The Platonick Lovers (Comedy 1636)
      9. the Triumph of the Prince D’Amour (masque 1636)
      10. Britannia Triumphs (masque, with Inigo Jones 1638)
      11. Salmacida Spolia (masque 1640)
      12. The unfortunate Lovers (tragedy 1643)
      13. Love and Honour (tragicomedy 1649)
      14. The Seige of Rhodes, part I 9tragicomedy 1656)
      15. The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru (opera 1658)
      16. the History of Sir Francis Drake (history 1659)
      17. The seige of Rhodes, Part II (tragicomedy 1663)
      18. The Man’s the master (comedy 1669)
      19. News from Plymouth (comedy 1673)
      20. The Spanish Lovers, or The Distresses (Comedy 1673)
      21. The Playhouse to Be let (Comedy 1673)
    2. Lyrical Verses:
      1. leffereidos (1630)
      2. Madagascar and other poems (1638)
      3. London, King Charles his Augusta, or City Royal, of the Founders, the names, and oldest honours of that City (1648)
      4. A Discourse upon Gondibert, an heroick poem (1650)
      5. Poems on several Occasions.
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