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HENRY GLAPTHORNE (fl. 1635-1642)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 78 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY GLAPTHORNE (fl. 1635-1642)  ,
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English poet and dramatist, wrote in the reign of Charles I . All that is known of him is gathered from his own
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work . He published Poems (1639), many of them in praise of an unidentified " Lucinda "; a poem in honour of his friend Thomas Beedome, whose Poems Divine and Humane he edited in 1641; and
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Whitehall (1642), dedicated to his " noble friend and gossip, Captain Richard Lovelace." The first
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volume contains a poem in honour of the duke of York, and Whitehall is a review of the past glories of the English court, containing abundant evidences of the writer's devotion to the royal cause . Argalus and Parthenia (1639) is a pastoral tragedy founded on an
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episode in Sidney's
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Arcadia; Albertus Wallenstein (1639), his only attempt at
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historical tragedy, represents Wallenstein as a monster of pride and cruelty . His other plays are The Hollander (written 1635; printed 1640), a romantic
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comedy of which the scene is laid in Genoa; Wit in a Constable (164o), which is probably a version of an earlier
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play, and owes something to Shakespeare's Much
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Ado about Nothing; and The Ladies Priviledge (164o) . The Lady
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Mother (1635) has been identified (Fleay, Biog . Chron. of the Drama) with The Noble Trial, one of the plays destroyed by Warburton's cook, and Mr A . H . Bullen prints it in vol. ii. of his Old English Plays as most probably Glapthorne's work . The Paraside, or Revenge for Honour (1654), entered at Stationers' Hall in 1653 as Glapthorne's, was printed in the next
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year with George Chapman's name on the title-page . It should probably be included among Glapthorne's plays, which, though they hardly rise above the level of contemporary productions, contain many felicitous isolated passages . The Plays and Poems of Henry Glapthorne (1874) contains an unsigned memoir, which, however, gives no information about the dramatist's
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life .

There is no

reason for supposing that the George Glapthorne of whose trial details are given was a relative of the poet .

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