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1ST BARON See also: English poet, only son of See also: Sir See also: Fulke Greville, was See also: born at Beau-champ See also: Court, See also: Warwickshire
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He was sent in 1564, on the same See also: day as his See also: life-long friend, See also: Philip
See also: Sidney, to See also: Shrewsbury school
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He matriculated at Jesus See also: College, Cambridge, in 1568
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Sir See also: Henry Sidney, president of
See also: Wales, gave him in 1576 a See also: post connected with the court of the See also: Marches, but he resigned it in 1577 to go to court with Philip Sidney
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See also: Young Greville became a See also: great favourite with See also: Queen See also: Elizabeth, who treated him with less than her usual caprice, but he was more than once disgraced for leaving the country against her wishes
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Philip Sidney, Sir
See also: Edward Dyer and Greville were members of the "See also: Areopagus," the See also: literary clique which, under the leadership of See also: Gabriel See also: Harvey, supported the introduction of classical metres into English verse
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Sidney and Greville arranged to See also: sail with Sir See also: Francis Drake in 1585 in his expedition against the See also: Spanish West Indies, but Elizabeth peremptorily forbade Drake to take them with him, and also refused Greville's See also: request to be allowed to join See also: Leicester's army in the See also: Netherlands
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Philip Sidney, who took See also: part in the See also: campaign, was killed on the 17th of See also: October 1586, and Greville shared with Dyer the See also: legacy of his books, while in his Life of the Renowned Sir Philip Sidney he raised an enduring monument to his friend's memory
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About 1591 Greville served for a See also: short See also: time in See also: Normandy under Henry of See also: Navarre
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This was his last experience of war
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In 1583 he became secretary to the principality of Wales, and he represented Warwickshire in parliament in 1592-1593, 1597, 16o1 and '620
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In 1598 he was made treasurer of the See also: navy, and he retained the office through the early years of the reign of See also: James I
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In 1614 he became chancellor and under-treasurer of theSee also: exchequer, and throughout the reign he was a valued supporter of the See also: king's party, although in 1615 he advocated the summoning of a parliament
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In 1618 he became
See also: commissioner of the See also: treasury, and in 1621 he was raised to the See also: peerage with the title of Baron See also: Brooke, a title which had belonged to the See also: family of his paternal grandmother, Elizabeth See also: Willoughby
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He received from James I. the See also: grant of
See also: Warwick See also: Castle, in the restoration of which he is said to have spent £20,000
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He died on the 3oth of See also: September 1628 in consequence of a wound inflicted by a servant who was disappointed at not being named in his master's will
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Brooke was buried in St Mary's See also: church, Warwick, and on his
See also: tomb was inscribed the epitaph he had composed for himself: " Folk Grevill Servant to Queene Elizabeth Conceller to King James Frend to Sir Philip Sidney
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Trophaeum Peccati."
A rhyming See also: elegy on Brooke, published in Huth's Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, brings charges of extreme penuriousness against him, but of his generous treatment of contemporary writers there is abundant testimony
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His only See also: works published during his lifetime were four poems, one of which is the elegy on Sidney which appeared in The See also: Phoenix See also: Nest (1593), and the Tragedy of Mustapha
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A See also: volume of his works appeared in 1633, another of Remains in 1670, and his biography of Sidney in 1652
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He wrote two tragedies on the Senecan See also: model, Alaham and Mustapha
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The scene of Alaham is laid in Ormuz
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The development of the piece fully bears out the gloom of the prologue, in which the ghost of a former king of Ormuz reveals the magnitude of the curse about to descend on the doomed family
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The theme of Mustapha is borrowed from Madeleine de See also: Scudery's See also: Ibrahim ou l'illustre See also: Bassa, and turns on the ambition of the sultana Rossa
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The choruses of these plays are really philosophical See also: dissertations, and the connexion with the rest of the drama is often very slight
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In Mustapha, for instance, the third See also: chorus is a See also: dialogue between Time and Eternity, while the fifth consists of an invective against the evils of superstition, followed by a chorus of priests that does nothing to dispel
the impression of scepticism contained• in the first part
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He tells us himself that the tragedies were not intended for the stage
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See also: Charles Lamb says they should rather be called
See also: political See also: treatises
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Of Brooke Lamb says, " He is nine parts Machiavel and Tacitus, for one of See also: Sophocles and See also: Seneca
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Whether we look into his plays or his most passionate love-poems, we shall find all frozen and made rigid with intellect." He goes on to speak of the obscurity of expression that runs through all Brooke's See also: poetry, an obscurity which is, however, due more to the intensity and subtlety of the thought than to any lack of See also: mere verbal lucidity
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It is by his biography of Sidney that Fulke Greville is best known
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The full title expresses the scope of the See also: work
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It runs: The Life of the Renowned Sr
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Philip Sidney
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With the true See also: Interest of See also: England as it then stood in relation to all Forrain Princes: And particularly for suppressing the power of See also: Spain Stated by Him: His principall Actions, Counsels, Designes, and See also: Death
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Together with a short account of the Maximes and Policies used by Queen Elizabeth in her See also: Government
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He includes some autobiographical See also: matter in what amounts to a See also: treatise on government
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He had intended to write a See also: history of England under the Tudors, but Robert See also: Cecil refused him See also: access to the necessary See also: state papers
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Brooke See also: left no sons, and his See also: barony passed to his See also: cousin, Robert Greville (c
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1608-1643), who thus became 2nd See also: Lord Brooke
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This nobleman was imprisoned by Charles I. at See also: York in 1639 for refusing to take the See also: oath to fight for the king, and soon became an active member of the See also: parliamentary party; taking part in the See also: Civil War he defeated the Royalists in a skirmish at Kineton in See also: August 1642
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He was soon given a command in the midland counties, and having seized See also: Lichfield he was killed there on the 2nd of See also: March 1643
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Brooke, who is eulogized as a friend of toleration by
See also: Milton, wrote on philosophical, theological and current political topics
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In 1746 his descendant, Francis Greville, the 8th baron (1719-1773), was created See also: earl of Warwick, a title still in his family
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Grosart edited the See also: complete works of Fulke Greville for the See also: Fuller Worthies Library in 187o, and made a small selection, published in the Elizabethan Library (1894)
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Besides the works above mentioned, the volumes include Poems of See also: Monarchy, A Treatise of See also: Religion, A Treatie of Humane Learning, An Inquisition upon Fame and Honour, A Treatie of Warres, Caelica in CX Sonnets, a collection of lyrics in various forms, a letter See also: town " Honourable Lady," a letter to Grevill Varney in See also: France, and a short speech delivered on behalf of Francis See also: Bacon, some minor poems, and an introduction including some of the author's letters
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The life of Sidney was reprinted by Sir S . See also: Egerton Brydges in 1816; and with an introduction by N
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See also: Smith in the " Tudor and
See also: Stuart Library " in 1907; Caelica was reprinted in M
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F
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Crow's " Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles " in 1898
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See also an essay in Mrs
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Stopes's See also: Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries (1907)
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