See also:MUNDAY (or See also:MONDAY), See also:ANTHONY (c. 1553-1633)
, See also:English
dramatist and See also:miscellaneous writer, son of See also:Christopher See also:Monday, a See also:London See also:draper, was See also:born in 1553-1554
.
He had already appeared on the See also:stage when in 1576 he See also:bound himself apprentice for eight years to See also:John Allde, the stationer, an engagement from which he was speedily released, for in 1578 he was in See also:Rome
.
In the opening lines of his English Romayne Lyfe (1582) he avers that in going abroad he was actuated solely by a See also:desire to see See also:strange countries and to learn See also:foreign See also:languages; but he must be regarded, if not as a See also:spy sent to See also:report on the English Jesuit See also:College in Rome, as a journalist who meant to make See also:literary See also:capital out of the designs of the English Catholics See also:resident in See also:France and See also:Italy
.
He says that he and his See also:companion, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Nowell, were robbed of all they possessed on the road from See also:Boulogne to See also:Amiens, where they were kindly received by an English See also:priest, who entrusted them with letters to be delivered in See also:Reims
.
These they handed over to the English See also:ambassador in See also:Paris, where under a false name, as the son of a well-known English See also:Catholic, See also:Munday gained recommendations which secured his reception at the English College in Rome
.
He was treated with See also:special kindness by the See also:rector, Dr See also:Morris, for the See also:sake of his supposed See also:father
.
He gives a detailed See also:account of the routine of the See also:place, of the dispute between the English and Welsh students, of the See also:carnival at Rome, and finally of the martyrdom of See also:Richard Atkins (
?
1559-1581)
.
He returned to See also:England in 157$-1579, and became an actor again, being a member of the See also:Earl of See also:- OXFORD
- OXFORD, EARLS OF
- OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
- OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
- OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
- OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
- OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST
Oxford's See also:company between 1579 and 1584
.
In a Catholic See also:tract entitled A True Reporte of the See also:death of M
.
See also:Campion (1581), Munday
is accused of having deceived his See also:master Allde, a See also:charge which he refuted by See also:publishing Allde's signed See also:declaration to the contrary, and he is also said to have been hissed off the stage
.
He was one of the See also:chief witnesses against See also:Edmund Campion and his associates, and wrote about this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time five See also:anti-popish See also:pamphlets, among them the See also:savage and bigoted tract entitled A
Discoverie of Edmund Campion and his Confederates whereto is added the See also:execution of Edmund Campion, Raphe See also:Sherwin, and See also:Alexander See also:Brian, the first See also:part of which was read aloud from the See also:scaffold at Campion's death in See also:December 1581
.
His See also:political services against the Catholics were rewarded in 1584 by the See also:post of messenger to her See also:Majesty's chamber, and from this time he seems to have ceased to appear on the stage
.
In 1598-1599, when he travelled with the earl of See also:Pembroke's men in the See also:Low Countries, it was in the capacity of playwright to furbish up old plays
.
He devoted 'himself to See also:writing for the booksellers and the theatres, compiling religious See also:works, translating Amadis de Gaule and other See also:French romances, and putting words to popular airs
.
He was the chief See also:pageant-writer for the See also:City from 16o5
to 1616, and it is likely that he supplied most of the pageants between 1592 and 16o5, of which no See also:authentic See also:record has been kept
.
It is by these entertainments of his, which rivalled in success those of See also:Ben See also:Jonson and See also:Middleton, that he won his greatest fame; but of all the achievements of his versatile See also:- TALENT (Lat. talentum, adaptation of Gr. TaXavrov, balance, ! Recollections of a First Visit to the Alps (1841); Vacation Rambles weight, from root raX-, to lift, as in rXi vac, to bear, 1-aXas, and Thoughts, comprising recollections of three Continental
talent the only one that was noted in his See also:epitaph in St See also:Stephens, Coleman See also:Street, London, where he was buried on the loth of See also:August 1633, was his enlarged. edition (1618) of See also:Stow's Survey of London
.
In some of his pageants he signs himself " See also:citizen and draper of London," and in his later years he is said to have followed his father's See also:trade
.
Of the eighteen plays between the See also:dates of 1584 and 1602 which are assigned to Munday in collaboration with See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Chettle, See also:Michael See also:Drayton, Thomas See also:Dekker and other dramatists, only four are extant
.
John a See also:Kent and John a Cumber, dated 1595, is supposed to be the same as See also:Wiseman of See also:West See also:Chester, produced by the See also:Admiral's men at the See also:Rae See also:Theatre on the and of December 1594
.
A ballad of See also:British Sidanen, on which it may have been founded was entered at Stationers' See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
Hall in 1579
.
The Downfall of See also:Robert Earl of See also:Huntingdon, afterwards called See also:Robin See also:Hood of merrie Sherwodde (acted in See also:February 1599) was followed in the same See also:month by a second part, The Death of Robert Earl of Huntingdon (printed 1601) in which he collaborated with Henry Chettle
.
Munday also had a See also:share with Michael Dray-ton, Robert See also:- WILSON, ALEXANDER (1766-1813)
- WILSON, HENRY (1812–1875)
- WILSON, HORACE HAYMAN (1786–1860)
- WILSON, JAMES (1742—1798)
- WILSON, JAMES (1835— )
- WILSON, JAMES HARRISON (1837– )
- WILSON, JOHN (1627-1696)
- WILSON, JOHN (178 1854)
- WILSON, ROBERT (d. 1600)
- WILSON, SIR DANIEL (1816–1892)
- WILSON, SIR ROBERT THOMAS (1777—1849)
- WILSON, SIR WILLIAM JAMES ERASMUS
- WILSON, THOMAS (1663-1755)
- WILSON, THOMAS (c. 1525-1581)
- WILSON, WOODROW (1856— )
Wilson and Richard Hathway in the First Part of the See also:history of the See also:life of See also:Sir John See also:Oldcastle (acted 1599), which was printed in 1600, with the name of See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Shakespeare, which was speedily withdrawn, on the See also:title See also:page
.
William See also:Webbe (Discourse of English Poetrie, 1586) praised him for his pastorals, of which there remains only the title, Sweet Sobs and Amorous Complaints of Shepherds and See also:Nymphs; and See also:Francis See also:Meres (Palladia Tamia, 1598) gives him among dramatic writers the exaggerated praise of being " our best plotter." See also:Pen Jonson ridiculed him in The See also:Case is Altered as See also:Antonio Balladino, pageant poet
.
Munday's works usually appeared under his own name, but he sometimes used the See also:pseudonym of " See also:Lazarus Piot." A
.
H
.
Bullen identifies him with the Shepherd Tony " who contributed " Beauty sat bathing by a See also:spring " and six other lyrics to England's See also:Helicon (ed
.
Bullen, 1899, p
.
15)
.
The completest account of See also:Anthony Munday is T
.
Seccombe's See also:article in the See also:Diet
.
Nat
.
Biog
.
A life and bibliography are prefixed to the Shakespeare Society s reprint of John a Kent and John a Cumber (ed
.
J
.
P
.
See also:Collier, 1851)
.
His two " Robin Hood " plays were edited by J
.
P
.
Collier in Old Plays (1828), and his English Romayne Lyfe was printed in the Harleian See also:Miscellany, vii
.
136 seq
.
(ed
.
See also:Park, 1811)
.
For an account of his city pageants see F
.
W
.
See also:Fairholt, See also:Lord See also:Mayor's Pageants (See also:Percy See also:Soc., No
.
38, 1843)
.
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