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See also:DAY, See also:JOHN (1574-1640?) , See also:English dramatist, was See also:born at Cawston, See also:Norfolk, in 1574, and educated at See also:Ely. He became a See also:sizar of See also:Caius See also:College, See also:Cambridge, in 1592, but was expelled in the next See also:year for stealing a See also:book. He became one of See also:Henslowe's playwrights, collaborating with See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry See also:Chettle, See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Haughton, See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:Dekker, See also:Richard Hathway and See also:Wentworth See also:- SMITH
- SMITH, ADAM (1723–1790)
- SMITH, ALEXANDER (183o-1867)
- SMITH, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1897)
- SMITH, CHARLES EMORY (1842–1908)
- SMITH, CHARLES FERGUSON (1807–1862)
- SMITH, CHARLOTTE (1749-1806)
- SMITH, COLVIN (1795—1875)
- SMITH, EDMUND KIRBY (1824-1893)
- SMITH, G
- SMITH, GEORGE (1789-1846)
- SMITH, GEORGE (184o-1876)
- SMITH, GEORGE ADAM (1856- )
- SMITH, GERRIT (1797–1874)
- SMITH, GOLDWIN (1823-191o)
- SMITH, HENRY BOYNTON (1815-1877)
- SMITH, HENRY JOHN STEPHEN (1826-1883)
- SMITH, HENRY PRESERVED (1847– )
- SMITH, JAMES (1775–1839)
- SMITH, JOHN (1579-1631)
- SMITH, JOHN RAPHAEL (1752–1812)
- SMITH, JOSEPH, JR
- SMITH, MORGAN LEWIS (1822–1874)
- SMITH, RICHARD BAIRD (1818-1861)
- SMITH, ROBERT (1689-1768)
- SMITH, SIR HENRY GEORGE WAKELYN
- SMITH, SIR THOMAS (1513-1577)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM (1813-1893)
- SMITH, SIR WILLIAM SIDNEY (1764-1840)
- SMITH, SYDNEY (1771-1845)
- SMITH, THOMAS SOUTHWOOD (1788-1861)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (1769-1839)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (c. 1730-1819)
- SMITH, WILLIAM (fl. 1596)
- SMITH, WILLIAM FARRAR (1824—1903)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1808—1872)
- SMITH, WILLIAM HENRY (1825—1891)
- SMITH, WILLIAM ROBERTSON (1846-'894)
Smith, but his almost incessant activity seems to have See also:left him poor enough, to See also:judge by the small loans, of five shillings and even two shillings, that he obtained from Henslowe. The first See also:play in which Day appears as See also:part-author is The See also:Conquest of See also:Brute, with the finding of the See also:Bath (1598), which, with most of his journeyman's See also:work, is lost. A See also:drama dealing with the See also:early years of the reign of Henry VI., The See also:Blind See also:Beggar of Bednal See also:Green (acted 1600, printed 1659), written in collaboration with Chettle, is his earliest extant work. It See also:bore the sub-See also:title of The Merry Humor of Tom Strowd, the Norfolk See also: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 ,6o6), a See also:prose See also:comedy founded upon See also:Sir See also:- PHILIP
- PHILIP (Gr.'FiXtrsro , fond of horses, from dn)^eiv, to love, and limos, horse; Lat. Philip pus, whence e.g. M. H. Ger. Philippes, Dutch Filips, and, with dropping of the final s, It. Filippo, Fr. Philippe, Ger. Philipp, Sp. Felipe)
- PHILIP, JOHN (1775-1851)
- PHILIP, KING (c. 1639-1676)
- PHILIP, LANOGRAVE OF HESSE (1504-1567)
Philip See also:Sidney's See also:Arcadia, contains in its See also:light See also:dialogue much See also:satire to which the See also:key is now lost, but Mr See also:Swinburne notes in See also:Manasses's See also:burlesque of a Puritan See also:sermon a curious anticipation of the eloquence of Mr Chadband in See also:Bleak See also:House. In 16o7 Day produced, in See also:conjunction with William See also:Rowley and See also:George See also:Wilkins, The Travailes of the Three English See also:Brothers, which detailed the adventures of Sir Thomas, Sir See also:Anthony and See also:Robert See also:Shirley.
The See also:Parliament of Bees is the work on which Day's reputation chiefly rests. This exquisite and unique drama, or rather masque, is entirely occupied with " the doings, the births, the See also:wars, the wooings " of bees, expressed in a See also:style at once most singular and most charming. The bees hold a parliament under Prorex, the See also:Master See also:Bee, and various complaints are preferred against the humble-bee, the See also:wasp, the See also:drone and other offenders. This satirical See also:allegory of affairs ends with a royal progress of See also:Oberon, who distributes See also:justice to all. The piece contains much for which parallel passages are found in Dekker's Wonder of a See also:Kingdom (1636) and See also:Samuel Rowley's (or Dekker's) See also: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 r6o8 Day published two comedies, See also:Law Trickes, or Who Would have Thought it? and See also:Humour out of Breath. The date of his See also:death is unknown, but an See also:elegy on him by John Tatham, the See also:city poet, was published in 164o. The six dramas by John Day which we possess showa delicate See also:fancy and dainty inventiveness all his own. He pre-served, in a See also:great measure, the dramatic tradition of John See also:Lyly, and affected a See also:kind of subdued See also:euphuism. The Maydes See also:Metamorphosis (1600), once supposed to be a See also: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 Peregrinatic Scholastica or Learninges See also:Pilgrimage, dating from his later years, was printed by Mr A. H. Bullen from a MS. of Day's. Considerations partly based on this work have suggested that he had a See also:share in the See also:anonymous Pilgrimage to See also:Parnassus and the Return from Parnassus. The beauty and ingenuity of The Parliament of Bees were noted and warmly extolled by See also:Charles See also:Lamb; and Day's work has since found many admirers.
His See also:works, edited by A. H. Bullen, were printed at the See also:Chiswick See also:Press in 1881. The same editor included The Maydes Metamorphosis in vol. i. of his Collection of Old Plays. The Parliament of Bees and Humour out of Breath were printed in See also:Nero and other Plays (Mermaid See also:Series, 1888), with an introduction by See also:Arthur See also:Symons. An appreciation by Mr A. C. Swinburne appeared in The Nineteenth See also:Century (See also:October 1897).
End of Article: DAY, JOHN (1574-1640?)
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