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D'avenant, William

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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Poet laureate, born Oxford, England, 1606; died London, England, 1668. After the fall of Charles I he went to France, later becoming a Catholic. He revived theatrical performance in England, 1656, and left an unfinished epic and many dramas, exceptionally moral for the period.

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Entry for 'D'avenant, William'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​d/davenant-william.html. 1910.
 
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