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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 PORTER (ft. 1596-1599)  ,
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English dramatist, author of The Two Angry
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Women of
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Abingdon, may probably be identified with the Henry Porter who matriculated at Brasenose College, Oxford, on the 19th of
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June 1589, and is described as aged sixteen and the son of a gentleman of
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London . From 1596 to 1599 he was engaged in writing plays for Henslowe for the
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admiral's men, and his closest associate seems to have been Henry Chettle . The earlier entries in Henslowe's
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Diary are respectful in tone, and the considerable sums paid to " Mr Porter" prove that his plays were popular . Henslowe secured in
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February 1599 the
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sole rights of any
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play in which Porter had a hand, the consideration being an advance of
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forty shillings . As 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
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April 1599 he obtained a loan of twelve pence in
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exchange for a bond to pay all he owed to Henslowe—twentyfive shillings—on 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
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Mus . Bac. at Christ Church in 1600 after twelve years' study, and whose skill in sacred
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music is celebrated in an
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epigram by John Weever . The entries in Henslowe's Diary indicate that he wrote a play called Love Prevented (1598), Hot Anger soon Cold, with Chettle and Ben
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Jonson (1598), the second
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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
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History of the two angry women of Abingdon . With the humorous mirth of Dick Coomes and Nicholas Proverbes, two serving men (1599), the importance of which is well described by Professor Gayley: " As a
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comedy of unadulterated native flavour, breathing rural
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life and manners and the
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modern spirit, constructed with knowledge of the stage, and without affectation or constraint, it has no foregoing analogue except perhaps The Pinner of Wakefield . No play preceding or contemporary yields an easier conversational
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prose, not even the Merry Wives." Alexander Dyce edited the Angry Women for the Percy Society in 1841; and it is included in W .

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

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