William Davenant

Sir William Davenant (February, 1606 - April 7, 1668), also spelled D'Avenant, was an english poet and playwright.

Works

Epic poems and books of poetry

• Ieffereidos (1630)
• Madagascar, with other Poems (1638)
• London, King Charles his Augusta, or, City Royal, of the founders, the names, and oldest honours of that City (1648)
• A Discourse upon Gondibert, an heroick poem (or simply Gondibert) (1650), which was originally published unfinished, but was published again in 1651 in its final form and included Davenant's "Preface to his most honour?d friend Mr. Hobs" and "The Answer of Mr. Hobbes to Sr Will. D?Avenant?s Preface before Gondibert" by Thomas Hobbes, to whom the book was dedicated; the official second edition in 1653 also contained "Certain Verses, written by severall of the author?s friends"
• (1656)
• Poems on Several Occasions (1657)

Panegyrics

• A Panegyric to his Excellency the Lord General Monck (1660), to George Monck
• Poem upon his sacred Majesties most happy return to his dominions (1660), on the Restoration of Charles II
• Poem, to the King?s most sacred Majesty (1663), to Charles II

Original plays, masques and operas

Listed in chronological order by actual date of publication, not performance.

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• Albovine, King of the Lombards (1629)
• The Cruel Brother (1630), which may also have been the same play published as The Colonel in 1629
• The Just Italian (1630)
• The Temple of Love (1635)
• The Witts (1636)
• The Platonic Lovers (1636)
• The Triumphs of the Prince D'Amour (1636)
• Britannia Triumphans (1638), with Inigo Jones
• Luminalia, or The Festival of Light (1638), with Indigo Jones
• Salmacida Spolia (1640)
• The Unfortunate Lovers (1643)
• Love and Honour (1649), which was also previously performed as The Courage of Love; and The Nonpareilles, or The Matchless Maids
• The Siege of Rhodes, Part I (1656)
• The Cruelty of the Spaniards in Peru (1658)
• The History of Sir Francis Drake (1659)
• The Siege of Rhodes, Part II (1663)
• The Man's the Master (1669)
• News from Plymouth (1673)
• The Fair Favourite (1673)
• The Distresses (1673), which was originally performed as The Spanish Lovers
• The Play-House to Be Let (1673)

Revisions, adaptations and other productions for the stage

• Greene's Tu Quoque (1667), which was based upon the 1614 print of Jo. Cooke's Greene's Tu Quoque Or, the Cittie Gallant, which had been made famous by the actor Thomas Greene's 1611 performance
• The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island, (1667, published 1670), an adaptation with John Dryden of William Shakespeare's The Tempest
• The Rivals (1668), which was a revision of John Fletcher's The Two Noble Kinsmen
• The First Day's Entertainment at Rutland House (1673), which was written by Davenant in 1657 and finally published in The Works
• The Law Against Lovers (1673), an adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Measure for measure all in one
• Macbeth (1674), an adaptation of William Shakespeare's play