Sir William Davenant

DMI number:

2789

Gender:

Male

Born:

1606

Died:

1668

ODNB:

http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7197

Comments:

Sir William Davenant (1606-1668): doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/7197 Attributions Sources: Chalmers, ed., The Works of the English Poets (1810), vol. VI. Davenant, The Works of Sr William D'avenant Kt (1673, ESTC R10223). A. M. Gibbs, ed., Sir William Davenant: The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972). Query: 'Davenant's Circe' - is by Charles, not William.