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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

In maturer age D'Avenant sought out the old actors Taylor and Lowin, and mastered their information respecting Shakespeare, their early colleague on the stage.

From Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays by Sir Sidney Lee

D’Avenant had rejected the marvellous from his poem—that is, the machinery of the epic: he had resolved to compose a tale of human beings for men.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

On one side, the condemners of D’Avenant would be Rymer, Blackwall, Granger, Knox, Hurd, and Hayley; and the advocates would be Hobbes, Waller, Cowley, Dr. Aikin, Headley, &c.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

According to the same compiler, the story was related by D’Avenant to Betterton; but Rowe, to whom Betterton communicated it, made no use of it. 

From A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles by Sir Sidney Lee

Thus Will, intending D’Avenant to grace, Has made a notch in’s name like that in’s face.

From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli

Macbeth, by William Shakespeare, adapted by William Davenant, with music performed by Folger Consort.

From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2018

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

In his new book "Shakespeare's Bastard: The Life of Sir William Davenant," biographer Simon Andrew Stirling claims that the Bard of Avon was the father of poet and playwright Davenant, the Australian reports.

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

Mr. Davenant Carter burst into a peal of jovial mirth.

From The Suprising Adventures of Sir Toady Lion With Those of General Napoleon Smith by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett

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