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Davenant greatly expanded Lady Macduff ’ s role, having her appear in four new scenes: “ the first with Lady Macbeth, the second with her husband in which they are visited by the witches, the third in which she tries to dissuade him from opposing Macbeth, and the fourth where, hearing of Banquo ’ s murder, she urges Macduff to flee to England .” These revisions greatly increased her role as a foil to Lady Macbeth, with Lady Macbeth dedicated to evil and Lady Macduff dedicated to good.
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Later playwrights, Sir William Davenant especially, expanded her role in adaptation and in performance.
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There is evidence that a French agent recommended bribing Davenant, but there is no evidence that “ a bribe was ever actually offered or accepted .” The link with the French tarnished Davenant ’ s public and political reputation.
The Junto Pembroke Ministry was removed from power, and Davenant ’ s friends – Godolphin, Nottingham, and Harley – were placed in positions of power in the Coalition Ministry.
In 1710 Godolphin lost his office, which removed one of Davenant ’ s supporters from power and threatened his position as Inspector General of the Imports and Exports.
Sir Thomas Double at Court reversed Davenant ’ s argument for moderation in his 1703 Essays upon Peace at Home and War Abroad ; and New Dialogues upon the Present Posture of Affairs repeated the attacks on the methods of financing public spending that he had been stating since 1689.
Davenant ’ s writings begin to shift away from purely economic discussions to political commentary designed to curry favour with the ruling party in order to secure employment.
In August 1701 Davenant published The True Picture of a Modern Whig, an attempt to counter the Whig party ’ s push to dissolve the Tory party Parliament by “ defending Tory views and exposing Whig motives .” His Tom Double Returned out of the Country, also published 1701, explained all of Davenant ’ s ideas on trade and public finance and the underlying reasoning behind them.
In 1709 Davenant published Reflections upon the Constitution and Management of Trade to Africa, in which he “ reverted to his normal attitude of suspicion and outright hostility towards the Dutch .” This pamphlet advocated renewing the Royal African Company ’ s monopoly on slave trade on the basis that the Dutch competition “ necessitated the maintenance of forts, which only a joint-stock company could afford .” Waddell states that there had been close collaboration between the company and Davenant and that he may have been compensated for writing it.
There is some question whether the Law of Demand was developed by Gregory King and then used in some of Charles Davenant ’ s writings or whether King and Davenant jointly developed the idea based on King ’ s statistical work and published their theory in Davenant ’ s pamphlets.
King does not describe a formal definition of the law in his journal, which is the primary source of his writings, and Davenant does not seem to be an innovative thinker and often wrote pamphlets to promote ideas or policies that would be beneficial to his personal economic or political status ; therefore, it seems likely Davenant extended King ’ s work to prove his claims that borrowing to fund the war was bad for England ’ s economy and that excise taxes were the appropriate way to fund the government.
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Davenant cast Thomas Betterton in the eponymous role, and he continued to play the Dane until he was 74.
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The four speakers represented, respectively, Sir William Davenant " ingenious " collaborator on their revision of The Tempest, Sir Robert Howard and Dryden's brother-in-law, the earl of Orrery Boyle, author of the first heroic play in rhymed couplets, and Dryden himself ( neander means " new man " and implies that Dryden, as a respected member of the gentry class, is entitled to join in this dialogue on an equal footing with the three older men who are his social superiors ).
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* February – The Reverend Ralph Davenant dies, leaving £ 100 in his will to start up a new school for the poor boys of Whitechapel, in the East End.
On the opening of the new theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in 1661, Davenant, the patentee of the Duke's Company, engaged Betterton and all Rhodes's company to play in his Siege of Rhodes.
" As early as 1639, Davenant had obtained a royal patent authorising construction of a large new public theatre with technology that would allow such effects and accommodate music, scenery, and dancing.
Two middle-aged pre-Commonwealth playwrights notable for their loyalty during Charles ' exile emerged from the struggle with royal Letters Patent for new, or refurbished, patent theatre companies: Thomas Killigrew and William Davenant.
Davenant was far behind, but daringly put all his capital into the outfitting of a new superior playhouse in Lincoln's Inn Fields ( simultaneously, with great foresight, prying loose the rising young star Thomas Betterton from the King's Company ), and perfectly hit public taste.
After Davenant opened more conventional theatres, he continued to use Rutland House to preview new productions, to gauge audience reaction.
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In 1678 Davenant was appointed Commissioner of the Excise, earning £ 500 per year ; taxes were collected using the “ farming system ”.
The basis for Davenant's argument was that “ high taxation for debt service was a burden on trade, industry, and land .” Davenant still believed that land tax was unfair because it placed the heaviest burden of generating public income on the landed gentry, and that the long term result would be that the gentry would be forced to sell their land to “ monied men and usurers ” to pay the taxes.
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He brought back the first half of the Porter scene, which had been ignored by directors since Davenant ; the second remained cut because of its ribaldry.
William Davenant produced The Tempest in the same year, which was the first musical adaption of a Shakespeare play ( composed by Locke and Johnson ).
The European concept of the balance of power, first mentioned in 1701 by Charles Davenant in Essays on the Balance of Power, became a common topic of debate during the war and the conferences that led to signing of the treaties.
Davenant later adapted aspects of Salmacida Spolia to create his famous The Siege of Rhodes, the " first English opera.
* September-performance of The Siege of Rhodes, Part I by Sir William Davenant, the " first English opera "
William Davenant produced The Tempest in the same year, which was the first Shakespeare play to be set to music ( composed by Locke and Johnson ).
In 1656, William Davenant, an Elizabethan and Restoration actor and producer, wrote the first English opera,
Davenant is also credited with being the first to discuss the concept of Balance of Trade as being an important part of the financial health of a country.
Davenant, a man of hot-tempered speech, insists he sail first, because he cannot allow the Americans a free hand at sea ; to do so would lead to his court-martial.
Thomas Killigrew received one of the patents, establishing the King's Company and opening the first patent theatre at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane ; Sir William Davenant received the other, establishing the Duke of York's theatre company and opening his patent theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields.
William Davenant | Sir William Davenant, operator of the first playhouse opened after the Restoration, was also a playwright and an epic poet.
Sir William Davenant was the first Restoration poet to attempt an epic.
Charles Davenant, writing as a radical Whig, was the first to propose a theoretical argument on trade and virtue with his A Discourse on Grants and Resumptions and Essays on the Balance of Power ( 1701 ).
In 1656, freshly released from imprisonment, Davenant turned a room of the house into what was, at first, a private theatre performing his own plays.
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In the Restoration, Sir William Davenant produced a spectacular " operatic " adaptation of Macbeth, " with all the singing and dancing in it " and special effects like " flyings for the witches " ( John Downes, Roscius Anglicanus, 1708 ).
Not all of these decisions succeeded in the Victorian context, and Phelps experimented with various combinations of Shakespeare and Davenant in his more than a dozen productions between 1844 and 1861.
Davenant rehabilitated Angelo, who is now only testing Isabella's chastity ; the play ends with a triple marriage.
Striving to outdo each other in magnificence, Killigrew and Davenant ended up with quite similar theatres, both designed by Christopher Wren, both optimally provided for music and dancing, and both fitted with moveable scenery and elaborate machines for thunder, lightning, and waves.
This view commended itself to Charles I and his episcopal advisers ; even if Hall, with John Davenant and Thomas Morton, was considered a likely die-hard by Richard Montagu if it ever came to reunification with the Catholic Church.
Along with Thomas Killigrew, Davenant was one of the rare figures in English Renaissance theatre whose career spanned both the Caroline and Restoration eras and who was active both before and after the English Civil War and during the Interregnum.
However, it seems that this rumour stemmed from a comment attributed to Davenant by Samuel Butler: " It seemed to him that he writ with the very same spirit that Shakespeare, and seemed content enough to be called his son.
Written by Sir William Davenant, with costumes, sets, and stage effects designed by Inigo Jones and with music by Lewis Richard, it was performed at Whitehall Palace on January 21, 1640.
He was intimate with Ben Jonson, Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, Thomas Nabbes and especially with John Hales and Sir William Davenant, who later furnished John Aubrey with information about his friend.
When Charles II allowed Thomas Killigrew and Sir William Davenant to form two theatre companies under royal patronage, the King's Company and the Duke's Company, in August 1660, Herbert complained bitterly at what he perceived as the violation of his rights, and started court actions ; he was especially irate with Davenant, who had carried on clandestine theatrical performances in the 1656-60 period, without Herbert benefitting.
John Aubrey in " Brief lives ", gave the following glimpse into the creation of this dictionary: Dr. Edward Davenant told me that this learned man had a shrew to his wife, who was irreconcileably angrie with him for sitting-up late at night so, compileing his Dictionarie, ( Thesaurus linguae Romanae et Britannicae, Londini, 1584 ; dedicated to Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester, and Chancellor of Oxford ).
In 1664, after the theatres had re-opened with the Restoration, Sir William Davenant produced an adaptation of The Two Noble Kinsmen for the Duke's Company titled The Rivals.
The previous poet laureate had been William Davenant, and Davenant did stage spectacles and plays with exceptionally bombastic speeches from the heroes ( e. g. The Siege of Rhodes ).
In 1698 Davenant returned to Parliament as a representative of Great Bedwyn ; he became associated with the Tory party, which replaced the Whig Junto as the majority in Parliament.
Davenant visited Holland in Autumn 1705, to research wartime traffic with France.
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