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Title: Shakespeare the player, and other papers illustrative of Shakespeare's individuality
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Cargill, Alexander
Subjects: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
Publisher: London : Constable and company ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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friend of Ben Jonson. CamdensRemaines was, according to the Epistle dedicatorie, ready forpress on 12th June 1C03. Under the heading of Poems, Camdenwrote at page 8 :■< These may suffice for some Poeticall descriptions of our auncient Poets ; if I would come to our time, what a world could I presentto you out of Sir Philipp Sidney, Ed. Spencer, Samuel Daniel, HughHolland, Ben Johnson, Th. Campion, Mich. Drayton, George Chapman,John Marston, William Shakespeare, and other most pregnant wittsof these our times, whom succeeding ages may iustly admire. Michael Draytons Tribute.—The Battaile of Agin-covrt, and other poems. London, Printed for William Lee,at the Turkes Head in Fleete-Streete, next to the Miterand Phoenix, 1627. Folio. In the concluding section of this volume entitled Elegies,Drayton gives a poetic epistle— Of Poets and Poesie —which headdressed to his friend, Henry Reynolds. There Drayton, who wasborn in 1563, at Hartshill, a hamlet near Atherstone, Warwickshire,
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MICHAEL DRAYTON From the painting in the National Portrait Gallery, London CONTEMPORARY REFERENCES 75 and was a Warwickshire friend of Shakespeare, apostrophises thegreat dramatist thus (p. 206) : and be it said of thee,Shakespeare, thou hadst as smooth a Comicke vaine,Fitting the socke, and in thy naturall brainc,As strong conception, and as Cleere a rage,As any one that trafiqud with the stage. It would seem that Drayton wrote these lines before 1619. Thomas Heywood on Shakespeare.—The Hierarchicof blessed Angells. Their Names, orders, and Offices. Thefall of Lucifer with his Angells. Written by Tho: Heywood.—London. Printed by Adam Islip, 1635. Folio. Thomas Heywood, the poet and dramatist, who was a friend ofShakespeare and of many contemporary men of letters, writes in thefourth book of this work of the form of honour paid to poets in oldtimes, and draws attention to the familiarity with which poets ofShakespeares epoch were treated by the public, who commonlytalked of them b

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