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• D'Avenant
  D'Avenant

  noun

  Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.
• Davenant
  Davenant

  noun

  Sir William. 1606–68, English dramatist and poet: poet laureate (1638–68). His plays include Love and Honour (1634)

D'Avenant

American  

[dav-uh-nuhnt] / ˈdæv ə nənt /

Or Davenant

noun

1. Sir William, 1606–68, English dramatist and producer: poet laureate 1638–68.

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Davenant British  

/ ˈdævənənt /

noun

1. Sir William. 1606–68, English dramatist and poet: poet laureate (1638–68). His plays include Love and Honour (1634)

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D'Avenant Davenant

D’Avenant seems, however, to have guarded his dignity by his silence; but Hobbes took an opportunity of delivering an exquisite opinion on this Club of Wits, with perfect philosophical indifference.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

D’Avenant, in his Law against Lovers fused Measure for Measure and Much ado about Nothing into one play.

From The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] Introduction and Publisher's Advertising by William George Clark

Shakspeare could not have expressed his feelings, in his own style, more eloquently touching than D’Avenant.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

It is remarkable that all the critics who condemn D’Avenant could not but be struck by his excellences, and are very particular in expressing their admiration of his genius.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

It was—Dryden tells us, and we must believe him—"originally Shakspeare's; a poet for whom Sir William D'Avenant had particularly a high veneration, and whom he first taught me to admire."

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various

That’s true even when Weaver swans through in a scene-stealing appearance as Lady Davenant, a benefactor who might accept Behn’s half-finished play if it’s done by morning.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 18, 2017

All theatre had been banned by a Puritan ordinance of 1647, but in 1660 two performing companies, one run by William Davenant and another by Thomas Killigrew, were granted licences.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 9, 2016

Stirling claims that Shakespeare's famous Sonnet 126 was written for Davenant.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 15, 2016

John Dryden and William Davenant introduced their adaptation of “The Tempest,” in 1667, as Shakespeare resurrected for the present: “from old Shakespear’s honour’d dust, this day / Springs up and buds a new reviving Play.”

From The New Yorker ● Oct. 6, 2015

In 1659 Davenant suffered a short imprisonment for complicity in Sir George Booth’s revolt.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 9 "Dagupan" to "David" by Various