Sir William Davenant

(1606-1668)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: D'Avenant, William, Sir, 1606-1668 NRA: Davenant, Sir William (1606-1668) Knight Poet and Dramatist DNB: Davenant [D'Avenant], Sir William (1606-1668), poet, playwright, and theatre manager LBT ID: WiDaven1668 VIAF ID: 41838700 LOC ID: n79103858	B/BAP: 1606 DIED: 1668-04-07
SOURCES: DNB; Virtual International Authority File; LOC Name Authority File
English poet and playwright; he was poet laureate (1638) and founder of the Duke's Company (1660).
REFERENCES TO Sir William Davenant: Robert Southey to Neville White, 11 March 1810 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Lamb to William Wordsworth, [6 September 1826] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Lamb to Sarah James, [16 April? 1829] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 2: ¶ ¶ Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1826 Found 1: ¶ 4 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Ch. XVI. 1810-1811 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Authors and Artists. Verse 2: p. 336b p. 336b Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Charles Lamb IX Found 1: ¶ 1 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 36 L'Estrange, A. G. K. (Alfred Guy Kingan), 1832-1915, Literary Life of the Rev. William Harness (London: Macmillan and Co., 1878) Chapter III. Found 1: ¶ 17 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1826 Found 1: ¶ 2 Letters: 1829