Howard, Sir Robert, 1677
Scope and Content
Two documents pertaining to monies received or owed, one with a red wax seal. Handwriting difficult to read due to English style of 17th century.
Dates
- Creation: 1677
Creator
- From the Collection: Acosta, Mercedes de, 1893-1968 (Person)
- From the Collection: Allmond, Marcus Blakey (Person)
- From the Collection: Andros, R. S. S. (Richard Salter Storrs) (Person)
- From the Collection: Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) (Person)
- From the Collection: Burgess, Gelett (Person)
- From the Collection: Cooper, James Fenimore (Person)
- From the Collection: Davie, Donald (Person)
- From the Collection: Gioia, Dana (Person)
- From the Collection: Gosse, Edmund (Person)
- From the Collection: Herford, Oliver (Person)
- From the Collection: Howard, Robert, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920 (Person)
- From the Collection: Lindsay, Vachel (Person)
- From the Collection: Lofting, Hugh (Person)
- From the Collection: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (Person)
- From the Collection: Mabie, Hamilton Wright (Person)
- From the Collection: Maeterlinck, Maurice (Person)
- From the Collection: Morley, Christopher, 1890-1957 (Person)
- From the Collection: Norris, Frank, 1870-1902 (Person)
- From the Collection: Page, Thomas Nelson, 1853-1922 (Person)
- From the Collection: Perkoff, Stuart Z. (Person)
- From the Collection: Porter, Cole (Person)
- From the Collection: Read, Thomas Buchanan (Person)
- From the Collection: Roberts, Charles George Douglas, Sir (Person)
- From the Collection: Runyon, Damon (Person)
- From the Collection: Ruskin, John (Person)
- From the Collection: Saltus, Edgar (Person)
- From the Collection: Sherman, Frank Dempster (Person)
- From the Collection: Stevenson, Robert Louis (Person)
- From the Collection: Vale, Eugene (Person)
- From the Collection: Van Dyke, Henry, 1852-1933 (Person)
- From the Collection: Weismiller, Edward Ronald (Person)
- From the Collection: Wells, Carolyn (Person)
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Biographical note
Sir Robert Howard, (b. 1626, England—d. Sept. 3, 1698), English dramatist, remembered chiefly for his dispute with John Dryden on the use of rhymed verse in drama.
Howard was knighted by the royalists in 1644 and was imprisoned during the Commonwealth, but after the Restoration he was elected to Parliament and ultimately became a member of the Privy Council. His proud and pretentious character provoked frequent attacks.
Of Howard’s plays, the best were The Indian Queen (first performed 1664), a tragedy written in collaboration with Dryden; and The Committee (first performed 1662), a comedy of humours that satirized the Commonwealth regime and gained durable popularity from the character of the Irish footman Teague.
Howard’s preface to Four New Plays (1665) began his dispute with Dryden, who had married Howard’s sister, Lady Elizabeth Howard, in 1663. In his preface Howard opposed Dryden’s dedicatory epistle to The Rival Ladies (1664), which held that rhyme was better suited to heroic tragedy than blank verse. Dryden replied in Of Dramatick Poesie, an Essay (1668). In the preface to The Duke of Lerma (1668), Howard replied in a rather more personal tone, but Dryden had the final word in the crushing Defence of an Essay of Dramatick Poesie prefaced to The Indian Emperour (1667).
"Sir Robert Howard." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2010. Encyclopædia Britannica Online. 24 Nov. 2010 http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/273466/Sir-Robert-Howard
Extent
From the Collection: 0.42 Linear Feet (1 legal-size document box)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Repository Details
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