George Gascoigne, born about 1539 and dead on 7 October 1577, was one of the most adventurous and consequential writers of early Elizabethan England. Poet, translator, dramatist, critic, court entertainer, soldier, traveler, and sometime political aspirant, he lived with the instability and appetite that his writing so often dramatizes. His career was brief, troubled by debt, family conflict, legal suspicion, militar…
“I have not written this discourse to teach any man, but rather to learn myself.”
Neighbourhood:
Elizabethan Poets, Love Poets, Renaissance Poets
Emotional landscape: Tenderness, Peace, Joy
In the twilight of the Elizabethan age, when England's cultural flowering reached its zenith, a remarkable composer emerged whose keyboard works would outlive the very dynasty that witnessed his birth. Giles Farnaby, born around 1563 and departing this world in 1640, stands as one of the most distinctive voices of the English Renaissance, a master whose miniature musical portraits captured both the exuberance and mel…
Neighbourhood:
Elizabethan Poets, Lute-Song Composers
Emotional landscape: Irony, Joy, Sorrow
