See also:PAYNTER (or PAINTER), 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 (c. 1540-1594)
, See also:English author, was a native of See also:Kent
.
He matriculated at St See also:John's See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1554
.
In 1561 he became clerk of the See also:ordnance in the See also:Tower of See also:London, a position in which he appears to have amassed a See also:fortune out of the public funds
.
In 1586 he confessed that he owed the See also:government a thousand pounds, and in the next See also:year further charges of peculation were brought against him
.
In 1591 his son See also:Anthony owned that he and his See also:father had abused their See also:trust, but See also:Paynter retained his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office until his See also:death
.
This event probably followed
II
immediately upon his will, which was nuncupative and was dated the 14th of See also:February 1J94
.
The first See also:volume of his See also:Palace of See also:Pleasure appeared in 1566, and was dedicated to the See also:earl of See also:Warwick
.
It included sixty tales, and was followed in the next year by a second volume containing See also:thirty-four new ones
.
A second improved edition in 1575 contained seven new stories
.
Paynter borrows from See also:Herodotus, See also:Plutarch, Aulus See also:Gellius, See also:Aelian, See also:Livy, See also:Tacitus, See also:Quintus See also:Curtius; from See also:Giraldi Cinthio, Matteo See also:Bandello, See also:Ser Giovanni Fiorentino, Straparola, See also:Queen See also:Margaret of See also:Navarre and others
.
To the See also:vogue of this and similar collections we owe the See also:Italian setting of so large a See also:pro-portion of the Elizabethan See also:drama
.
The See also:early tragedies of Appius and See also:Virginia, and See also:Tancred and Gismund were taken from The Palace of Pleasure; and among better-known plays derived from the See also:book are the Shakespearian See also:Timon of See also:Athens, All's Well that Ends Well (from Giletta of See also:Narbonne), See also:Beaumont and See also:Fletcher's See also:Triumph of Death and See also:Shirley's Love's See also:Cruelty
.
The Palace of Pleasure was edited by See also:Joseph Haslewood in 1813
.
This edition was collated (189o) with the See also:British Museum copy of 1575 by Mr Joseph See also:Jacobs, who added further prefatory See also:matter, including an introduction dealing with the importance of Italian novelle in Elizabethan drama
.
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