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HENRY PORTER (ft. 1596-1599)

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 116 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HENRY See also:PORTER (ft. 1596-1599)  , See also:English dramatist, author of The Two Angry See also:Women of See also:Abingdon, may probably be identified with the See also:Henry See also:Porter who matriculated at Brasenose See also:College, See also:Oxford, on the 19th of See also:June 1589, and is described as aged sixteen and the son of a See also:gentleman of See also:London . From 1596 to 1599 he was engaged in See also:writing plays for See also:Henslowe for the See also:admiral's men, and his closest See also:associate seems to have been Henry See also:Chettle . The earlier entries in Henslowe's See also:Diary are respectful in See also:tone, and the considerable sums paid to " Mr Porter" prove that his plays were popular . Henslowe secured in See also:February 1599 the See also:sole rights of any See also:play in which Porter had a See also:hand, the See also:consideration being an advance of See also:forty shillings . As See also:time goes on he is familiarly referred to as " Harry Porter "; his borrowings become more frequent, and the sums less, until on the 16th of See also:April 1599 he obtained a See also:loan of twelve pence in See also:exchange for a See also:bond to pay all he owed to Henslowe—twentyfive shillings—on See also:pain of forfeiting ten pounds . Whether he paid or not does not appear, but his last loan is recorded on the 26th of May 1599, after which nothing further is known of him . It seems in the highest degree unlikely that he is the Henry Porter who took his degree as See also:Mus . Bac. at See also:Christ See also:Church in 1600 after twelve years' study, and whose skill in sacred See also:music is celebrated in an See also:epigram by See also:John See also:Weever . The entries in Henslowe's Diary indicate that he wrote a play called Love Prevented (1598), Hot Anger soon See also:Cold, with Chettle and See also:Ben See also:Jonson (1598), the second See also:part of The Two Angry Women of Abingdon (1598), The Four Merry Women of Abingdon (1599), and The Spencers (1599), with Chettle . None of these are extant, unless, as has been suggested, Love Prevented is another name for The Pleasant See also:History of the two angry women of Abingdon . With the humorous mirth of See also:Dick Coomes and See also:Nicholas Proverbes, two serving men (1599), the importance of which is well described by See also:Professor Gayley: " As a See also:comedy of unadulterated native flavour, breathing rural See also:life and See also:manners and the See also:modern spirit, constructed with knowledge of the See also:stage, and without affectation or constraint, it has no foregoing analogue except perhaps The Pinner of See also:Wakefield . No play preceding or contemporary yields an easier conversational See also:prose, not even the Merry Wives." See also:Alexander See also:Dyce edited the Angry Women for the See also:Percy Society in 1841; and it is included in W .

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Hazlitt's edition of See also:Dodsley's Old Plays (1874) . It was edited by See also:Havelock See also:Ellis in See also:Nero and other plays (1888, " Mermaid See also:Series,") and in Representative English Comedies (1903), with an introduction by the See also:general editor, Professor C . M . Gayley .

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