John Day (1574-1640?) was an English dramatist of the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods. Events April 14 - Battle of Mookerheyde. ... Events December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... Elizabeth ushers in Peace and Plenty. ... James VI of Scots and James I of England and Ireland (Charles James) (19 June 1566–27 March 1625) ruled England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. ...

He was born at Cawston, Norfolk, and educated at Ely. He became a sizar of Caius College, Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next year for stealing a book. He became one of Philip Henslowe's playwrights, collaborating with Henry Chettle, William Haughton, Thomas Dekker, Richard Hathwaye and Wentworth Smith, but 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 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. For alternative meanings see: Norfolk (disambiguation) Norfolk (pronounced NOR-fk) is a low-lying county in East Anglia in the east of southern England. ... There are other places also called Ely. ... Full name Gonville and Caius College Motto - Named after Edmund Gonville & John Caius Previous names Gonville Hall (1348), Gonville & Caius (1557) Established 1348 Sister College Brasenose College Master Neil McKendrick Location Trinity St Undergraduates 468 Graduates 291 Homepage Boatclub Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, generally known as Caius (though pronounced... Philip Henslowe (c 1550 - January 6, 1616) was an Elizabethan theatrical entrepreneur. ... Henry Chettle (1564?-1607?) was an English dramatist and miscellaneous writer of the Elizabethan era. ... William Haughton (fl. ... Thomas Dekker, (c. ... Richard Hathwaye (fl. ... Wentworth Smith (fl. ...

A drama dealing with the early years of the reign of Henry VI, The Blind Beggar of Bethnal Green (acted 1600, printed 1659), written in collaboration with Chettle, is Day's earliest extant work. 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 Ile of Guls (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 Mr Swinburne notes in Manasses's burlesque of a Puritan sermon a curious anticipation of the eloquence of Mr Chadband in Bleak House. In 1607 Day produced, in conjunction with William Rowley and George Wilkins, The Travailes of the Three English Brothers, which detailed the adventures of Sir Thomas, Sir Anthony and Robert Shirley. Henry VI (December 6, 1421 – May 21/22, 1471) was King of England from 1422 to 1461 (though with a Regent until 1437) and then from 1470 to 1471. ... Philip Sidney Sir Philip Sidney (November 30, 1554 - October 17, 1586) became one of the Elizabethan Ages most prominent figures. ... Bleak House is the ninth novel by Charles Dickens, published in 20 monthly parts from March, 1852 through September, 1853. ... Events January 20 - Tidal wave swept along the Bristol Channel, killing 2000 people. ... William Rowley was an English Jacobean dramatist, best known for works written in collaboration with more successful writers. ... George Hubert Wilkins (fl. ... Sir Thomas Shirley (1564 - c. ... Sir Anthony Shirley (or Sherley) (1565 - 1635) was an English traveller. ... Sir Robert Shirley (c. ...

The Parliament of Bees is the work on which Day's reputation chiefly rests. 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). 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 Trickes, 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. The Parliament of Bees is the best-known of the works of the Elizabethan dramatist, John Day. ... Samuel Rowley was a 17th century English dramatist. ...

The six dramas by John 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. The Maydes Metamorphosis (1600), once supposed to be a posthumous work of Lyly's, may be an early work of Day's. It possesses, at all events, many of his marked characteristics. His prose Peregrinatie Scholastica or Learninges Pilgrimage, dating from his later years, was printed by Mr AH Bullen from a manuscript of Day's. 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. John Lyly (Lilly or Lylie) (c. ... Euphuism is a mannered style of English prose, taking its name from works by John Lyly. ... Charles Lamb (1775- 27 July 1834) was an English essayist, best known for his Essays of Elia and for the childrens book Tales from Shakespeare, which he produced along with his sister, Mary Lamb. ...

His works, edited by AH Bullen, were printed at the Chiswick Press in 1881, The same editor included The Maydes Metamorphosis in vol. 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. An appreciation by A. C. Swinburne appeared in The Nineteenth Century (October 1897). The Mermaid Series was a major collection of reprints of texts from English Elizabethan, Jacobean and Restoration drama. ... Arthur Symons (February 28, 1865 - January 22, 1945), was a British poet and critic. ... Algernon Charles Swinburne (April 5, 1837 _ April 10, 1909) was a Victorian era English poet. ...

Reference

• This entry incorporates public domain text originally from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica.

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See also

• John Day, Oregon
• John Day River