John Day (1574 – 1640?) was an English dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland A playwright, also known as a dramatist, is a person who writes dramatic literature or Drama. Romance and reality The Victorian era and the early twentieth century idealised the Elizabethan era The term English literature refers to Literature written in the English language, including literature composed in English by Writers not necessarily from
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Life
He was born at Cawston, Norfolk, and educated at Ely. Norfolk (ˈnɔrfək is a low-lying county in East Anglia, England, United Kingdom. Ely (, rhyming with "freely" is a Cathedral city in Cambridgeshire, England. He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book. A sizar formerly referred to students of limited means at the universities of Cambridge and Trinity College Dublin, who were charged lower fees and obtained free Gonville and Caius College Cambridge is a constituent College of Cambridge University, one of the world's most academically respected institutions He became one of Philip Henslowe's playwrights, collaborating with Henry Chettle, William Haughton, Thomas Dekker, Richard Hathwaye and Wentworth Smith. Henry Chettle (c 1564 &ndash c 1607 was an English Dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era. William Haughton (d 1605 was an English Playwright in the age of English Renaissance theatre. Thomas Dekker is the name of Thomas Dekker (writer (1572&ndash1632 Elizabethan poet and dramatist Thomas Dekker (actor (born 1987 Richard Hathwaye (fl 1597 - 1603 was an English Dramatist. Little is known about Hathwaye's life Wentworth Smith (1571 - c1623 was a minor English Dramatist of the Elizabethan period who may have been responsible for some of the plays in the There are 22 plays to which he is linked.
However his almost incessant activity does not seem to have paid, to judge by the small loans, of five shillings and even two shillings, that he obtained from Henslowe. The shilling is a unit of Currency used in current and former Commonwealth countries and was continued to be used in countries that left the commonwealth Little is known of his life beyond these small details, and disparaging references by Ben Jonson in 1618/19, describing him, (with Dekker and Edward Sharpham) as a “rogue” and (with Thomas Middleton and Gervase Markham) as a “base fellow”. Thomas Middleton (1580 &ndash 1627 was an English Jacobean playwright and Poet. Gervase (or Jervis) Markham (ca 1568 &ndash February 1637 was an English Poet and writer best known for his work The English Huswife It may be indicative of his abilities that of all the writers who did a substantial amount of work for Henslowe’s companies Day is one of only two not mentioned and praised by Francis Meres in his lists of the “the best” writers in 1598. Francis Meres (1565 &ndash January 29, 1647) was an English churchman and Author. In Peregrinatio Scholastica, or Learning's Pilgrimage, a collection of 22 morall Tractes written towards the end of his life, but not published until 1881, he laments that “notwithstanding . . . Industry . . . he was forct to take a napp at Beggars Bushe”, and elsewhere he refers to “being becalmde in a fogg of necessity” having been passed over by “Credit” and “Opinion”. It seems likely that he was the “John Daye, yeoman” who killed fellow dramatist Henry Porter in Southwark 1599. Henry Porter (died 1599 was an English dramatist Very little is known about Henry Porter’s life beyond the entries in diary of Philip Henslowe the theatre manager If so it does not seem have to interrupted his career; he continued to collaborate with writers such as Henry Chettle, who had written with Porter.
Works
The first play in which Day appears as part-author is The Conquest of Brute, with the finding of the Bath (1598), which, with most of his early work, is lost. Day's earliest extant work, written in collaboration with Chettle, is The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (acted 1600, printed 1659), a drama dealing with the early years of the reign of Henry VI. Henry VI (6 December 1421 &ndash 21 May 1471 was King of England 1422–1461 (though with a Regent until 1437 and then 1470–1471 and a claimant to the kingdom It bore the sub-title of The Merry Humor of Tom Strowd, the Norfolk Yeoman, and was so popular that second and third parts, by Day and Haughton, were produced in the next year. The Isle of Gulls (printed 1606), a prose comedy founded upon Sir Philip Sidney's Arcadia, contains in its light dialogue much satire to which the key is now lost, but Algernon Charles Swinburne notes in Manasses's burlesque of a Puritan sermon is a curious anticipation of the eloquence of Mr. The Isle of Gulls is a Jacobean era stage play written by John Day, a Comedy that caused a scandal upon its premiere in 1606. Sir Philip Sidney ( November 30, 1554 &ndash October 17, 1586) became one of the Elizabethan Age's most prominent figures Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909 was a Victorian era English poet A Puritan of 16th and 17th century England was an associate of any number of religious groups advocating for more "purity" of Worship and Doctrine, Chadband in Bleak House. Bleak House is the ninth Novel by Charles Dickens, published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853 In 1607 Day produced, in conjunction with William Rowley and George Wilkins, The Travels of the Three English Brothers, which detailed the adventures of Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony and Robert Shirley. William Rowley was an English Jacobean Dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers George Wilkins (fl 1607 was an English Dramatist and Pamphleteer He is first heard of as the author of a Pamphlet on the Three Miseries The Travels of the Three English Brothers is an early Jacobean era stage play an adventure drama written in 1607 by John Day, William Rowley Sir Thomas Shirley (1564 &ndash c 1630 was an English adventurer Sir Anthony Shirley (or Sherley) (1565 - 1635 was an English traveller Sir Robert Shirley (c 1581 &ndash July 13, 1628) was an English traveller and adventurer younger brother of Sir Anthony Shirley and of the This play is a dramatic romance of a type that hearkened back to the early decades of the public stage in London. As a Literary genre of High culture, romance or chivalric romance refers to a style of heroic Prose and verse Narrative London ( ˈlʌndən is the capital and largest urban area in the United Kingdom.
The Parliament of Bees is the work on which Day's reputation chiefly rests. The Parliament of Bees is the best-known of the works of the Elizabethan Dramatist, John Day. The piece contains much for which parallel passages are found in Dekker's Wonder of a Kingdom (1636) and Samuel Rowley's (or Dekker's) Noble Soldier (printed 1634). Samuel Rowley was a 17th century English Dramatist and Actor. There is no earlier known edition of The Parliament of Bees than that in 1641, but a persistent tradition has assigned the piece to 1607. In 1608 Day published two comedies, Law Tricks, or Who Would have Thought it? and Humour out of Breath. The date of his death is unknown, but an elegy on him by John Tatham, the city poet, was published in 1640. John Tatham (flourished 1632 &ndash 1664) was an English Dramatist of the mid-seventeenth century
The six dramas by Day which we possess show a delicate fancy and dainty inventiveness all his own. He preserved, in a great measure, the dramatic tradition of John Lyly, and affected a kind of subdued euphuism. John Lyly ( Lilly or Lylie) (c 1553 or 1554 &ndash November 1606 was an English writer best known for his books Euphues The Anatomy of Wit Euphuism is a mannered style of English Prose, taking its name from works by John Lyly who however did not invent the term Without ever wholly abandoning these characteristics, Day's comedy also reveals some influence of early Jacobean satirists such as John Marston, who like Day wrote for the children's companies. John Marston (baptised October 7, 1576 – June 25, 1634) was an English poet playwright and satirist during the late Elizabethan The Maid's Metamorphosis (1600), once supposed to be a posthumous work of Lyly's, may be an early work of Day's. The Maid's Metamorphosis is a late Elizabethan stage play a Pastoral first published in 1600. It possesses, at all events, many of his marked characteristics. His prose Peregrinatio Scholastica or Learninges Pilgrimage, dating from his later years, was printed by A. H. Bullen from a manuscript of Day's. Arthur Henry Bullen, often known as A H Bullen, ( 9 February 1857, London - 29 February 1920, Stratford-on-Avon Considerations partly based on this work have suggested that he had a share in the anonymous Pilgrimage to Parnassus and the Return from Parnassus. The beauty and ingenuity of The Parliament of Bees were noted and warmly extolled by Charles Lamb; and Day's work has since found many admirers. Charles Lamb is the name of Charles Lamb (writer (1775-1834 a British essayist Charles Lamb (politician (1891-1965 a Canadian
Publication
His works, edited by Bullen, were printed at the Chiswick Press in 1881. The same editor included The Maid's Metamorphosis in Vol. The Maid's Metamorphosis is a late Elizabethan stage play a Pastoral first published in 1600. 1 of his Collection of Old Plays. The Parliament of Bees and Humour out of Breath were printed in Nero and other Plays (Mermaid Series, 1888), with an introduction by Arthur Symons. The Mermaid Series was a major collection of reprints of texts from English Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama. Arthur William Symons ( 28 February 1865 &ndash 22 January 1945) was a British Poet, Critic and Magazine editor An appreciation by A. C. Swinburne appeared in The Nineteenth Century (October 1897). Algernon Charles Swinburne (5 April 1837 – 10 April 1909 was a Victorian era English poet
References
- This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition article "John Day", a publication now in the public domain. The Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition (1910–1911 is a 29-volume reference work that marked the beginning of the Encyclopædia Britannica The public domain is a range of abstract materials &ndash commonly referred to as Intellectual property &ndash which are not owned or controlled by anyone
- Hotson, Leslie M. , "The Adventure of a Single Rapier", Atlantic Monthly, July 1931
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