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CARTWRIGHT, WILLIAM (1611–1643)

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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 436 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CARTWRIGHT, See also:WILLIAM (1611–1643) , See also:English dramatist and divine, the son of a See also:country See also:gentleman who had been reduced to keeping an See also:inn, was See also:born at Northway, See also:Gloucestershire, in 1611. See also:Anthony a See also:Wood, whose See also:notice of Cartwright is in the nature of a See also:panegyric, gives this See also:account of his origin, which is probably correct, although it is contradicted by statements made in See also:David See also:Lloyd's See also:Memoirs. He was educated at the See also:free school of See also:Cirencester, at See also:Westminster school, and at See also:Christ See also:Church, See also:Oxford, where he took his M.A. degree in 1635. He became, says Wood, " the most florid and seraphical preacher in the university," and appears to have been no less admired as a reader in See also:metaphysics. In 1642 he was made succentor of See also:Salisbury See also:cathedral, and in 1643 he was chosen junior See also:proctor of the university. He died on the 29th of See also:November of the same See also:year. Cartwright was a " son " of See also:Ben See also:Jonson and an especial favourite with his contemporaries. The collected edition of his poems (1651) contains commendatory verses by See also:Henry See also:Lawes, who set some of his songs to See also:music, by Izaak See also:Walton, See also:Alexander See also:Brome, Henry See also:Vaughan and others, and the See also:king wore See also:mourning on the See also:day of his funeral. His plays are, with the exception of The See also:Ordinary, extremely fantastic in See also:plot, and See also:stilted and artificial in treatment. They are: The Royal Slave (1636), produced by the students of Christ Church before the king and See also:queen, with music by Henry Lawes; The See also:Lady Errant (acted, 1635–1636; printed, 1651) ; The See also:Siege, or Love's Convert (printed 1651). In The Ordinary (1635?) he produced a See also:comedy of real See also:life, in See also:imitation of Jonson, representing pot-See also:house society. It is reprinted in See also:Dodsley's Old Plays (ed.

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Hazlitt, vol. xii.).

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