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DAVENPORT, ROBERT (fl. 1623—1639)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 853 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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DAVENPORT, See also:ROBERT (fl. 1623—1639) , See also:English dramatist, is mentioned as the author of a See also:play licensed in 1624 under the See also:title of See also:Henry I. In 1653 Henry I. and Henry II. was entered at Stationers' See also:Hall by See also:Humphrey Moseley with a second See also:part said to be the See also:work of Davenport and See also:Shakespeare. Of this play or plays nothing has been discovered, but See also:King See also:John and See also:Matilda (printed 1655), which probably See also:dates from about the same See also:time, has survived. Throughout the play, as in its closing See also:scene quoted by See also:Charles See also:Lamb in his Dramatic Specimens, there is much " See also:passion and See also:poetry " which saves the piece from being classed as pure See also:melodrama. The See also:City-See also:Night-Cap was licensed in 1624, but not printed until 1661. The underplot of this unsavoury play was borrowed from Cervantes and See also:Boccaccio, and Mrs Aphra See also:Behn's Amorous See also:Prince (1671) is an See also:adaptation from it. A New Tricke to Cheat the Divell (printed 1639) is a farcical See also:comedy, which contains among other things the See also:idea of the popular supper See also:story which reappears in Hans See also:Andersen's Little Claus and Big Claus. As told by Davenport the story closely resembles the Scottish Freires of See also:Berwick, which was printed in 1603. Three other plays entered in the Stationers' See also:Register as Davenport's are lost, and he collaborated in two plays with See also:Thomas Drue. Davenport's plays were reprinted by A. H.

Bullen in Old English Plays (new See also:

series, 1890). The See also:volume includes two didactic poems, which first saw the See also:light in 1623.

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