“Fame, like the river, is narrowest where it is bred, and broadest afar off.”
About Sir William Davenant
c. February 1606–7 April 1668
Sir William Davenant, baptized on 3 March 1606 and buried on 9 April 1668 after his death on 7 April, was one of the great survivors and reinvigorators of seventeenth-century English literary culture. Poet, playwright, court servant, royalist officer, prisoner, theatrical entrepreneur, and eventually the leading…